d" has no metes and bounds, and no one
pretends to know exactly or inexactly where it is. After all, the
"Summer land" is a hope--a wish. Spiritualists believe that a soul
leaving this world passes into another, or into another state, and
continues to grow in intelligence and virtue, if it so desires.

Spiritualists claim to prove that there is another life. Christians
believe this, but their witnesses have been dead for many centuries.
They take the "hearsay" of legend and ancient gossip; but Spiritualists
claim to have living witnesses; witnesses that can talk, make music;
that can take to themselves bodies and shake hands with the people
they knew before they passed to the "other shore."

_Question_. Has Spiritualism, through its mediums, ever told the
world anything useful, or added to the store of the world's knowledge,
or relieved its burdens?

_Answer_. I do not know that any medium has added to the useful
knowledge of the world, unless mediums have given evidence of
another life. Mediums have told us nothing about astronomy, geology
or history, have made no discoveries, no inventions, and have
enriched no art. The same may be said of every religion.

All the orthodox churches believe in Spiritualism. Every now and
then the Virgin appears to some peasant, and in the old days the
darkness was filled with evil spirits. Christ was a Spiritualist,
and his principal business was the casting out of devils. All of
his disciples, all of the church fathers, all of the saints were
believers in Spiritualism of the lowest and most ignorant type.
During the Middle Ages people changed themselves, with the aid of
spirits, into animals. They became wolves, dogs, cats and donkeys.
In those day all the witches and wizards were mediums. So animals
were sometimes taken possession of by spirits, the same as Balaam's
donkey and Christ's swine. Nothing was too absurd for the
Christians.

_Question_. Has not Spiritualism added to the world's stock of
hope? And in what way has not Spiritualism done good?

_Answer_. The mother holding in her arms her dead child, believing
that the babe has simply passed to another life, does not weep as
bitterly as though she thought that death was the eternal end. A
belief in Spiritualism must be a consolation. You see, the
Spiritualists do not believe in eternal pain, and consequently a
belief in immortality does not fill their hearts with fear.

Christianity makes eternal lif