een possible had they been dwelling under one roof. For
personality, and all the incidents and accidents and interruptions
hinder rather than help actual companionship, when it is on this higher
plane of spirit to spirit in mutual, swift, unerring response.

In this phase of actual experience may we not find a hint from which to
study the words of Jesus to his disciples,--"It is expedient for you
that I go away." Through that mystic silence that fell between them on
His departure from the visible world, there thrilled the sense of a
communion so near, so exalted, so divinely sweet, that it could never
have been theirs in the external life. To give this it was expedient
that He should go away. Here we find the key to the separations that
must occur between friends by the demands of life, or that occur by
death, but that may be in either case infinitely deeper in spiritual
communion. The friend with whom we are in any real relations is nearer,
even when the ocean rolls between, than one in the same room can be with
whom we are not in special sympathy; and one who has gone into the
invisible world is nearer still, as out of the realm of pure spirit the
communion is still stronger and more direct and more intense. For this
is "a universe of reciprocal forces." The very ether is the medium of
communication between spirit and spirit.

Marconi has recently completed a new wonder in the shape of a ship
detector. By means of this instrument the course of any ship having one
aboard can be traced, wherever she may be in mid-ocean. It acts on the
principle of the wireless telegraph, but does not require a wireless
plant to operate it. No operator is needed on the ship, the shore
stations locating the ships by a system of tunings. It is proposed to
install this system on the leading liners, and the home office can thus
know at every moment the exact position of a ship and note her progress
as she moves along her course. Should the vessel become disabled it will
become noted, and by means of the chart her position can be known and
assistance can be sent to her.

Here is one of the most marvellous among the new illustrations of the
finer forces. But this "ship detector," which acts on the principle of
wireless telegraphy, is less potent than are the electric forces in
every human being, if it were known how to control and utilize these to
serve the purposes of perception. For perception is a faculty that may
far transcend both sight