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 THE HEREAFTER 
 
 SCIENTIFIC, PHENOMENAL, AND BIBLICAL 
 DEMONS TEA TION 
 
 OF 
 
 Jl future life. 
 
 By D. W. HULL. 
 
 The spirit-world is not closed; 
 
 Thy sense is closed, thy heart is dead. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 The Druids had that firm opinion of the reality of the future world, 
 that they would lend money on the condition that it should be repaid 
 in that world, if not in coin, in what there was of equivalent value. 
 
 Wm. Howitt's Hist. Sup. Nat., Vol. I. p. 133. 
 
 BOSTON: <d 
 WILLIAM WHITE AND COMPANY, 
 
 Banner of Light Office, 
 IN"o. 14 Hanover Street. 
 
 1873. 
 
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, 
 
 By D. W. HULL, 
 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
 The Library 
 of Congress 
 
 washington 
 
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 No. 19 Spring Lane. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 No prefatory remarks could be more appropriate 
 than the following explanation of the origin of this 
 book, which I take the liberty to abridge from a let- 
 ter and the reply : — M. H. 
 
 " Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 10, 1873. 
 
 Brother Moses : . . . I am now engaged in 
 delivering a series of Sunday evening lectures here on 
 the Scientific, Phenomenal, and Scriptural Evidences 
 of Immortality. And as I see the effect of my argu- 
 ments on my large audiences, and have tested them 
 with the most wily opponents, an irresistible desire 
 seizes me to have them published to the world ; but 
 my long sickness last autumn, added to the sickness 
 of every member of my family, and the birth of one 
 of my children into ' that better country,' causes my 
 cruel master, Poverty, to draw the reins more tightly 
 than ever before. I can not now oversee the printing 
 of a book, nor raise the ' filthy lucre ' to pay for it- 
 Can you help me ? If you can, I know, from the past, 
 you will. The lesson of turning one empty away 
 you have never learned. Will you allow me to send 
 my MS. lectures to you in the rough ? Will you take 
 them, revise them if they need it, and publish them 
 in some form, so that the world can have the benefit 
 
 3 
 
4 PREFACE. 
 
 of them ? If you can and will, I will pay you as fast 
 as I can ; if that is not in this world, you shall have it 
 in the lawful currency of the hereafter. . . . 
 Truly, your brother, 
 
 D. W. Hull." 
 
 " Boston, January 20, 1873. 
 
 Brother Daniel : . . . Now I come to the 
 business portion of your letter. If my memory were 
 not long enough to grasp the many favors received 
 from you in the past, it would be short indeed. Send 
 your MSS. along. I will fix them up and publish them. 
 Not that I want compensation in the other world, but 
 to relieve me of a few things that hang over me in 
 the beyond. I remember the patient help, protection, 
 and instruction that flowed in one constant stream 
 from you to me from as far back as memory will allow 
 me to go, until in manhood our paths became diver- 
 gent. ... I have not forgotten that when you 
 was a poor journeyman printer, and I an Adventist 
 minister, yet in my teens, your bottom dollar was 
 often sacrificed to send me out to proclaim the gospel 
 of destruction. Though we were in error, we were 
 both deeply in earnest. Now that Ave have become 
 men, and put away these ' childish things, ' I will help 
 you to undo that which you helped me to do. 
 I am, as ever, your brother, 
 
 Moses." 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE. 
 
 Development as taught by John the Baptist. — The Process. — Man cre- 
 ated out of Dust. — The Child's Lesson. — God's Books. — The Cypress 
 Swamp. — The Skull. — The Bed of the Niagara. — Development of Mat- 
 ter. — Advantages of Speech. — Embryotic Development. — Why Mon- 
 sters are born. — The Unseen. — The Rose and its Sermon. — Are Ema- 
 nations tangible ? — Earth. — Water. — Steam. — Electro-Magnetism. — 
 The Source of Power.— Modus Operandi of Muscular Action. — Devel- 
 opment of Spirit. — Spirit Material. — Infinite Fountain of Thought. — Is 
 God Spirit or a Creature ? — How are Spirits developed ? — A Demand of 
 our Natures. — The Principle of Life. — The Corpse. — The Difference . 7 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED BY THE PHENOMENA OF 
 OCCULT FORCES. 
 
 A Spirit in Man. — Our Magnetic Surroundings. — Magnetic Exchanges. — 
 We think through other People's Brains. — Magnetic Healing. — Un- 
 conscious Action of the Brain. — Case of Suspended Consciousness. — 
 Psychometry. — The Dog. — Why Females reach Conclusions quicker 
 than Males. — Mind-reading. — A New Faculty to be developed. — Mind 
 compared to JRadiata. — Clairvoyance. — Dreams. — Case related by Dr. 
 Bushnell. — The Lawyer's Dream. — The Teller's Dream. — Intelligence 
 conveyed by a Dream. —Witchcraft. — Resurrection.— Roger Williams' 
 Body stolen by an Apple-Tree. — Ten Bodies : will all be raised ? — What 
 is Death? — Evidences of Immortality from the Imperfection of our Or- 
 ganisms. — Evidence of Dying Persons. — " Sweet Angels, I am Coming." 
 — "Sainted Wife." — "Who will carry me over the Mountain?" — 
 "There is Bertha." — "It is all right; I come.". 29 
 
b CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 
 
 Apparitions of the Living. — A Mother appears. — "Steer to the Nor'- 
 west." — Different Hypotheses examined. — Apparitions in Dreams. — 
 The Debt of Three- and-tenpence. — Extract from the Methodist Maga- 
 zine. — Spirits correcting War Reports. — A Father appears to his Son. 
 
 — Physical Phenomena. — Manifestations through Charles H. Foster. — 
 The Memphis Appeal on the Manifestations. — Horace Greeley's Testi- 
 mony. — Manifestations at Higginsville, 111. — The Raps and their "Work. 
 
 — A Spirit settles his Estate. — Clairvoyance. — An unknown Sister in- 
 troduces herself. — Miss Keyser's Manifestations. — Entrancements. — 
 A Sister announces her Death. — Modus Operandi of Spirit Control. — 
 
 Is it Magnetism? — The Watch-chain Argument. — Conclusion 56 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 
 
 Why the Author goes to the Bible. — Materialistic Bible Writers. — Many 
 of them did not believe in a Future Existence. — Job on the Witness 
 Stand. — Job's Redeemer and the Worms. — Testimony of David. — His 
 Character. — Solomon's Testimony and Character. — The Prophets. — 
 New Testament Evidences. — A Change. — The Carnal and the Spiritual 
 Man. — War between the Flesh and Spirit. — Does the dead Body arise? 
 — Examination of particular Texts. — Resurrection out of the Dead. — 
 Jesus and Nicodemus. — Spirit of Jesus raised. — Paul's Houses. — De- 
 sire to depai t. — Who are the Demons ? — Holy Ghost, what is it ? — Pen- 
 tecostal Manifestations explained. — Entrancements. — Balaam, Peter, 
 Paul, John. — Chips of the old Block 102 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 
 
 Bible Apparitions. — Samuel's Return. — Testimony of Dr. Adam Clarke. 
 — Moses and Elias. — Was Jesus' Body raised? — A novel Explana- 
 tion. — Representation of Jesus' Wounds. — Similar Cases. — Jesus' Ap- 
 pearance to the Women. — Disagreement of the Witnesses. — Explana- 
 tion. — On the Way to Emmaus. — Appearance to the Eleven. — Another 
 Appearance. — Did Thomas see Jesus' Physical Body ? — What is " the 
 Comforter"? — Jesus' Appearance to Paul. — The two Narratives. — 
 Paul a Pharisee. — Paul's View of Jesus' Resurrection. — How is Death 
 abolished? — Examination of 1 Cor. xv.— Conclusion 134 
 
THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE. 
 
 Development as taught by John the Baptist. — The Process. — Man created 
 out of Dust. — The Child's Lesson. — God's Books. — The Cypress Swamp. 
 
 — The Skull. — The Bed of the Niagara. — Development of Matter. — Ad- 
 vantages of Speech. — Embryotic Development. — Why Monsters are born. 
 
 — The Unseen. — The Rose and its Sermon. — Are Emanations tangible ? — 
 Earth. — Water. — Steam. — Electro-Magnetism. — The Source of Power. — 
 Modus operandi of Muscular Action. — Development of Spirit. — Spirit Ma- 
 terial. — Infinite Fountain of Thought. — Is God Spirit or a Creature ? — How 
 are Spirits developed ? — A Demand of our Natures. — The Principle of Life. 
 
 — The Corpse. — The Difference. 
 
 I can not better commence this chapter than with 
 a quotation from the Book of books : — 
 
 " For I say unto you, that God is able of these 
 stones to raise up children unto Abraham." (Matt, 
 iii. 9.) 
 
 " But more refined, more spirituous and pure, 
 As nearer to him placed, or nearer tending, 
 Each in their several active spheres assigned, 
 Till body up to spirit work, in bounds 
 Proportioned to each kind. So from the root 
 Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves 
 More aery, last the bright consummate flower 
 
8 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 Spirits odorous breathes : flowers and their fruits 
 
 To vital spirits aspire, to animal, 
 
 To intellectual ; give both life and sense, 
 
 Fancy and understanding ; whence the soul 
 
 Reason receives, and reason is her being, 
 
 Discursive and intuitive ; discourse 
 
 Is oftest yours ; the latter most is ours, 
 
 Differing but in degree ; of kind the same." 
 
 Raphael — Paradise Lost. 
 
 Abraham, we are informed, " came out of Ur of 
 the Chalclees." In this direction there is a possibil- 
 ity of tracing the name back to India. Here we find 
 the Hindoo Brahma, who seemed to be the father of 
 life in India, as was Abraham among the Jews. When 
 we reflect that we only have to transpose the letter 
 Alepli in Brahma to make it spell Abraham, the story 
 is told : the religious idea of Abraham being the father 
 of the children of earth, if not borrowed from the 
 Hindoos, is at least derived from the same source. 
 Brahma was also the father of life in India, and the 
 creator of all things, as is also God in the present 
 system. But, inasmuch as it is claimed that Abraham 
 is the father of all of God's children here, there is only 
 a verbal difference between the two. 
 
 THE DEVELOPMENT THEORY. 
 
 Whether John the Baptist had received an idea of 
 the development theory, or spoke " wiser than he 
 knew," it is evident that modern science is demon- 
 strating the truth of his assertion. For we know that 
 God is able to develop humanity from the stones that 
 pave our streets. John opened the door to the great 
 truth that man is developed from the stones, but not 
 until these stones are first refined and developed into 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 9 
 
 higher conditions. It may have been spoken in igno- 
 rance of its truth, yet it is a truth that man was 
 " created out of the dust of the ground ; " that dust 
 was only a higher condition of the rocks, and before 
 man could have been created it must have been 
 developed into vegetable matter. 
 
 DISAGREEMENT OF THE TWO REVELATIONS . 
 
 I am told, however, that this work was all accom- 
 plished within a very recent period — six thousand 
 years ago, according to our biblical chronology. But 
 I inquire by what authority the Bible says so, and I 
 am again told that the Bible was written under dicta- 
 tion of God himself, and whatever is there is written 
 by his authority. I have no escape from my doubts. 
 While I am contemplating the matter, a little girl runs 
 to me with a smooth stone from a babbling brook. 
 I look at it, and find it quite round and polished. I 
 ask at once, "Who made this?" She answers, in 
 her lisping way, " I spects Dod made it." " If God 
 made it," I reflect, " how did he make it? He must 
 have put it through some sort of a process, as our 
 mechanics would have done. Where are the mills 
 of God, by which he does such beautiful work?" 
 But the child takes me to the brook, and here I see 
 the mills of God at work. Stones of every grade — 
 those which are most smoothly polished, and those in 
 the crudest condition — are being moved and turned 
 against each other by the pressure of the running 
 water. The angular corners are being worn off from 
 the rough stones, and the smooth ones are being still 
 more evenly rounded. Here is the "mill of God" 
 for which I was inquiring ; but how many millions of 
 
10 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 years it must have taken to work on that little stone 
 before it assumed its perfect shape ! But stop ; there 
 is something in the stone : it looks like a shell of a 
 small mollusk of the sea. I take a hammer and break 
 the stone, and find it full of those little shells. I 
 again ask the child, — 
 
 " Who put these little shells in this stone ? " 
 
 She again answers, " I spects Dod put them 
 there." 
 
 I know he did. Here, then, in this stone, small 
 as it is, I have another book, and I know God 
 wrote it, for no other person could write such a 
 book. But this little book demonstrates that many 
 millions of years ago God took the soft sediment, and 
 filled it full of shells that had once encased living 
 beings, and put them all through it, and then closed 
 the book, cemented its leaves, and sealed it with the 
 great seal bearing his monogram, which, without 
 translation, will be intelligible to all nations and 
 tongues. 
 
 Now, if the first book is God's, it will harmonize 
 with the last. 
 
 God has been writing all over our earth, and in 
 every leaf of this world-book we find a contradiction 
 to the Bible. When in the cypress swamps of the 
 Mississippi valley we find the bones of a man that have 
 been left there a great period, and when we count 
 those cypress swamps, and learn that God has raised, 
 matured, and rotted five cypress swamps over the 
 grave of this skeleton, and the sixth swamp is past its 
 prime, — knowing that it takes ten thousand years to 
 mature one, we can not escape the conviction that the 
 man who left his skeleton for us to look at must have 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 11 
 
 lived here fifty-seven thousand years ago. But when 
 we go to Florida, and find a skull there one hundred 
 and thirty-seven thousand years old, we know that 
 God never was the author of the idea of the recent 
 creation of our earth. We find traces of man which 
 show that he lived here on earth before the glacial 
 period. Lyell demonstrates that that was eighty or 
 a hundred thousand years ago ; but I don't care to 
 make it that old for my present purpose. There is 
 an old channel of the Niagara River which seems to 
 have been filled up during the glacial period. In 
 consequence, the Niagara has had to cut another — a 
 new bed. In cutting that bed, it has been compelled 
 to cut away rocks, as it is doing now. Since it com- 
 menced cutting it has cut back from the junction of 
 the old channel the distance of eleven miles. It is 
 known to cut back now at the distance of eleven 
 inches per year, so that it would take it over five 
 thousand years to cut back one mile, and a little over 
 sixty thousand years to cut back eleven miles. If it 
 has done all this since the glacial period, and man 
 was here before that time, it demonstrates not only 
 that the world is more than six thousand years old, 
 but that the human race is much beyond that. I am 
 compelled to believe these records, because their 
 author is the creator of the world. 
 
 USES OF EARTHQUAKES. 
 
 Passing through one of your valleys, I hear a rum- 
 bling sound like thunder ; the ground, also, seems to 
 tremble under my feet. It is the shock of an earth- 
 quake. In a few days it is repeated ; houses are 
 thrown down and lives are destroyed. I take myself 
 
12 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 away from the scene of danger, but remain near 
 enough to be an observer. In time a mountain is 
 reared, and a furious volcano breaks forth, sending 
 up its tongues of fire, smoke, and ashes. The great 
 rock -ribs of the earth rub their broken sides together, 
 grinding each other into a fine soil, which is sent up 
 amid the smoke, and ashes, and mud, and water, con- 
 tinually belched forth. This pulverized rock now 
 becomes a coarse soil, and if I put some of it in an 
 urn and plant an acorn, or a seed of any kind, it will 
 only grow a dwarf ; but each time the soil has grown 
 into vegetation and gone back again, it has been 
 raised in the scale of development, and it is capable 
 of producing better vegetation than it was the last.* 
 
 But while this process is going on in the little urn 
 that I have saved, a process of development is going 
 on in another direction. The earth ground from the 
 stones of the mountain is being washed towards the 
 sea, there to again spring into animal and vegetable 
 life. 
 
 We go to bayous of salt or fresh water located out 
 of reach of the winds, and we find conditions some- 
 what favorable to the development of animal and 
 vegetable life. Floating there appears to be a speck 
 which we are at a loss to locate, as it seems to be 
 neither animal nor vegetable, but a little of both. 
 Another speck, however, floats near it, and we see a 
 prolongation of one of its sides until it actually ex- 
 temporizes an arm, which reaches out and draws in 
 
 * Perhaps it would be well to state that soil is educed from rocks 
 in several ways — by glaciers, early forms of vegetable life, and the 
 action of water and the atmosphere upon them. The process above 
 is given because it is more easily comprehended. 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 13 
 
 the speck near by it ; then it becomes all mouth, and 
 envelopes it. But now that the mouth has performed 
 its part, there is no need for that any longer, and the 
 little sarcoid becomes a stomach, and the speck thus 
 taken in and enveloped undergoes a sort of digestion, 
 and becomes a part of the little polyp. After it 
 grows large enough, if you tear a little piece off, you 
 will find that not only the original will live, but the 
 piece you have torn off will commence to operate in 
 the same way that its parent did. 
 
 It would take a great many generations before it 
 began to have protrusions for the arms and a cavity 
 for the mouth, but eventually not only would this be 
 the case, but it would assume a kind of an envelope 
 on its outside, which would either become hard and 
 horn-like, or cartilaginous. From this, eventually, 
 we should have a higher order of existence, and in a 
 few thousand years, again, we should have another 
 still higher order evolved from these. Thus we find 
 a regular succession from the cartilaginous fish up to 
 man. From this little cryptogam we first, after a 
 long series of efforts, pass through the cartilaginous 
 state, and reach the first order of vertebrata. There 
 are developments from this till we come to air-breath- 
 ing animals, who, swimming with their heads out of 
 water, ever and anon make efforts to ascend higher 
 in the air. The effect of this is to develop wings, 
 while, at the same time, another order of the verte- 
 brata have become land animals. We then reach the 
 next higher order of animals in the winged vertebra- 
 ta ; one step higher takes us to the marsupial animals, 
 and the next step takes us to mammals : here we find 
 the highest order of beings beneath man. This part 
 
14 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 of creation, intellectually, is far beneath man. There 
 is a demand with them which has only been supplied 
 to man, and without it they have no means of associ- 
 ating ideas with each other, and therefore no means 
 of further development. 
 
 THE ADVANTAGES CONFERRED BY HUMAN SPEECH. 
 
 Suppose the powers of speech were to be bestowed 
 upon your horses or your dogs ; how many genera- 
 tions until you would find them manifesting certain 
 powers of mind ? The horse's master wishes a certain 
 job of work done, and gives his horse his reasons for 
 it, and the faculties develop for combined generations. 
 As it is, we have domesticated these animals till they 
 understand many things we say ; but if they could 
 only exchange ideas with us, they would give us an 
 opportunity to teach them still more. 
 
 On the other hand, let us suppose that when to- 
 morrow morning's sun shall rise, it shall find that the 
 whole human family has lost the powers of speech ; 
 not only the powers of speech, but powers of talking 
 by deaf and dumb signs, which but for the gift of 
 speech we never should have had. The papers would 
 publish it all over the world, and we should each read 
 it at the breakfast table, and learn that our neighbors 
 were all afflicted as we are, but we should have no 
 means of associating ideas only by the pen. We 
 should manage to get along for one generation, but 
 the next would not know how to read, and could not 
 learn without oral instruction. In consequence of 
 this we should have no more use for printing presses, 
 men would soon forget how to make machinery with- 
 out instruction, and each individual would be driven 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 15 
 
 to look directly to his own individual wants, without 
 any reference to the wants of his neighbor. At this 
 rate it would be but a few generations till the strong- 
 est men physically would take possession of our 
 houses, and drive the weakly ones (who are gener- 
 ally the most intellectual) out of doors to perish. 
 But at the same time these houses, too, would perish ; 
 the art of agriculture, to a certain extent, would be 
 lost ; and men would be driven to prey upon wild 
 animals for their subsistence. They would climb 
 trees for game, burrow in the earth for shelter, kill 
 each other off for coveted objects, and become like 
 the wild animals about them. If the loss of speech 
 would result in all of this, may we not suppose that 
 the gift of speech to the highest order of intelligences 
 would bridge the chasm between the highest order of 
 animals and the human species ? I am not looking 
 for the " connecting link" between man and inferior 
 animals ; I do not just now want it. I only want 
 to show the advantages man has derived over the 
 lower order of animals by virtue of this gift. 
 
 EMBRYOTIC DEVELOPMENT. 
 
 Now, I will follow the process of development from 
 another stand-point. Let us commence with the 
 beginning of human life, the foetus. The first sign of 
 life which we see manifested is a small speck, not 
 unlike, in appearance, the sarcoid of which I spoke 
 on a former page. Other cells are added to it, and 
 the process of development begins, and as it devel- 
 ops it begins to change. The law of evolution, which 
 has given us such a high order of existence, is now 
 working in the embryo. The vertebrata is at length 
 
16 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 reached, and thus the development goes on till we 
 reach another step on the ladder of progress. Finally, 
 man is reached.* This will account for monsters who 
 are born into the human family. Men are born with 
 gill-marks on their neck, showing that the process of 
 development had been partially arrested in that part 
 of the body, so that it was not perfect. In a neigh- 
 borhood near where I lived when I was a boy, a child 
 was born with the head of a squirrel ; and I read of 
 another that had a serpent's head when it was born, 
 and would put out its tongue after the most approved 
 serpent fashion. Fortunately neither of these chil- 
 dren lived but a short time. Now, in these two in- 
 stances the process of development had been arrested 
 at the head ; in one instance very early in the devel- 
 opment, in the other at a later period ; while the de- 
 velopment of every other part of the body continued. 
 Monsters are never born with organizations beyond 
 the human race, for they can not well develop be- 
 yond. The fact that monsters are always caused by 
 the cessation of development of certain parts of the 
 
 * "The ovum, destined to become a new creature, is originally 
 only a cell, with a contained granule." — Vestiges of Creation, p. 89. 
 It is only in recent times that physiologists have observed that 
 each animal passes, in the course of its general history, through a 
 series of changes resembling the permanent forms of the various 
 
 orders of animals inferior to it Nor is man himself exempt 
 
 from this law. His first form is that which is permanent in the ani- 
 malcule. His organization gradually passes through conditions gen- 
 erally resembling a fish, a reptile, a bird, and the lower mammalia, 
 before it attains its specific maturity. At one of the last stages 
 of this foetal career, he exhibits an intermaxillary bone, which is 
 characteristic of the perfect ape ; this is suppressed, and he may 
 then be said to take leave of the simial type, and become a true 
 human creature. — Vestiges of Creation, p. 103. 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIBITUAL LITE DEVELOPED. 17 
 
 organization, would establish, if we had no other evi- 
 dence, that the embryo developed through all these 
 lower animals, and therefore, at some period in ani- 
 mal life he has lived in these several forms. I have 
 traced this line of argument to prepare the reader for 
 my argument on the development of spirit. I shall 
 not be compelled to be so tedious in handling that 
 part of my subject, now that this is established. 
 
 Before I pursue this further I must take my readers 
 with me for a moment to 
 
 THE UNSEEN. 
 
 Thus far we have dealt with matter which we 
 could feel and see. Now let us go a step beyond. A 
 single drop of water ; I can see through it and it 
 looks perfectly pure. Nothing shades the rays of 
 light which pass through it. But I put it under the 
 glass of a microscope and the drop of pure water has 
 developed to a little world, teeming with life, — mon- 
 sters preying upon each other, as some of our land- 
 sharks, that wear broadcloth and gold spectacles, are 
 wont to do at times. Had it not been for our micro- 
 scopes we should never have known of the existence 
 of this part of the world. How do we know that 
 there are not creatures still more minute, who are 
 entirely out of the reach of our microscopes ? The 
 earth, air, and water are full of life, of which, but 
 for the microscope, we should be entirely ignorant. 
 Who shall say that there may not be other objects 
 about us beyond the reach of our natural vision ? 
 
 Let us take for illustration a rose, which I may 
 find upon my table in my room. Putting it on the 
 balances, I ascertain its weight, and then hold it up to 
 2 
 
18 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 my nose. I pronounce it very fragrant : I ascertain 
 this because the rose has imparted some of its odor, 
 which is really a part of the rose. After I have done 
 admiring, perhaps twenty individuals will each of 
 them take it, and each pronounce it fragrant. But I 
 put it in the balances, and I find that though we had 
 all partaken of its emanations it has lost none of its 
 weight. 
 
 Now, what is this odor that arises from the rose ? 
 You can not see it, feel it, or hear it ; it has no sensi- 
 ble weight, nor diminution. We can only come in 
 contact with it through the olfactories, and this leaves 
 us so in doubt about the aroma, that we can only 
 express our admiration. We know there is an aroma, 
 although we may not see it or come in contact with 
 it by any other of our physical senses. Now, if we 
 should meet a man without this sense, we should 
 have no means of demonstrating the existence of this 
 intangible element. May not this emanation really 
 be a higher condition of the rose, as real and tangible 
 to higher order of developments as the rose itself is 
 to us ? 
 
 Now that we have spoken of the rock-ribs of earth, 
 let us return to a further contemplation of the sub- 
 ject. From the earth we may reach a higher condi- 
 tion in water ; for it is capable of holding in solution 
 all the primates of our earth. Water is a higher con- 
 dition than the earth, and is more powerful. Earth 
 is inanimate, and incapable of raising any great power 
 in any short period of time. Its power must be 
 evolved by a gradual process. But in water, this 
 refined condition of the elements, the power is in- 
 creased. A given amount of water will manifest a 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 19 
 
 certain rate of power, which can be used for the pur- 
 poses of running machinery. But now take a portion 
 of this water and develop it to a still higher condition, 
 and you have steam. By this process you have inten- 
 sified the power a hundred-fold. But what is steam ? 
 You can not see it when it is first liberated. You 
 only know of its existence from its effects, or by see- 
 ing the vapor it causes by mingling with the atmos- 
 phere. It is really a spiritual condition of the water, 
 and as we refine the water, we raise it to a higher 
 condition. I take steam again, however, and unite it 
 with caloric, and I have another time intensified this 
 power a hundred-fold ; I now have electro-magnetism. 
 How much further we can go on intensifying this 
 power no one can tell ; but we have ascertained that 
 the more we spiritualize the forces, the more we in- 
 crease the power. Now, we can not see these forces. 
 They are only known by their effects. From this we 
 reach another conclusion, and that is, that 
 
 ALL POWER INHERES IN SPIRIT. 
 
 To illustrate : I have an osseous, muscular, and ner- 
 vous system, which seems to hold the same relations 
 to me that rock, earth, and water do to our world. 
 Now, there is no power in either. Neither my bones, 
 muscles, nor nerves, can raise my arm ; yet I can 
 raise it. But by what means? Ah, there is something 
 behind all organization and combination of matter, in 
 which the power is situated, and which holds it under 
 control, and uses it as you would use the lever and 
 fulcrum for the removal of objects too ponderous to 
 be moved by hands. 
 
 Passing from the nervous system, we reach a higher 
 
20 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 condition of nervine in the brain, which appears to be 
 composed of nerve fibers, so intensely refined that if 
 it was drawn out it would reach quite round our 
 globe. And yet I can not find the power situated 
 here. For the brain can not grind out thoughts, as 
 Elder Miles Grant asserts. If it could, there could be 
 no association of ideas. I could give you an idea 
 only as it was put in and ground out, as the miller 
 puts his grist in the mill to grind out flour. This I 
 should have to do by mixing the proper nervine in 
 your food ; but as I can not make you think as I please 
 in that way, I am compelled to look up a more suc- 
 cessful way. I must talk to you, and convey my ideas 
 to the outward senses by words. This association of 
 ideas determines to us that man has something exist- 
 ing back of the organism which controls the brain. 
 This I term spirit. " There is a spirit in man," says 
 Elihu, " and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth 
 them understanding." Before I can raise my arm, my 
 spirit must operate on the brain, the great galvanic 
 battery of my system, controlling that in such a way 
 as to send out telegrams through my whole nervous 
 system. The nerves, in turn, act upon the muscles in 
 such a way as to cause them to contract, and shorten 
 up the cords necessary to raise my arm ; and thus 
 my arm, nerves, muscles, and bones are all elevated. 
 My spirit now holds magnetic control of my body in 
 this way, and manifests its power through my organ- 
 ism. But for the spirit controlling this system I 
 should have no power — should be entirely inert. 
 
 DEVELOPMENT OF SPIRIT. 
 
 I come, now, more directly to the subject of the 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 21 
 
 development of the spirit. All I have written was 
 only to prepare the ground for the argument now to 
 be made. Let us take the proposition laid down by 
 Des Cartes. " I think; therefore I am." Here is an 
 axiom upon which there can be no dispute. We 
 might have the same bodies composed of the same 
 flesh and blood that we now have, but we could have 
 no evidence of it unless it were demonstrated to our 
 thinking faculties. Thinking, then, is the basis of 
 our existence, for all that there is of us is that which 
 is comprehended within our thoughts. 
 
 OF WHAT IS THE SPIRIT COMPOSED? 
 
 But what do I think ? Why, thoughts, of course. 
 But what is thought ? Thought is a bundle of spirit 
 fibers or elements. Inasmuch as my body is sup- 
 posed to contain all the sixty-four primates of matter, 
 and is an epitome of all animal nature beneath me, 
 so is my spirit composed of thoughts. But these 
 thoughts could not exist if they were not developed 
 from spirit matter. Having established the proposi- 
 tion that I think, I demonstrate that there is a world 
 of spirit matter : you may call it latent intelligence, 
 if you wish. 
 
 If there had not been the elements of matter out of 
 which to compose my material body, I never should 
 have had one, for something can not be developed 
 from nothing. The very fact that my body is, estab- 
 lishes the fact that there must have been elements 
 out of which my body was made. And also the fact 
 that my mind exists demonstrates the fact that there 
 are elements out of which mind has been created ; for 
 something can not be made from nothing. If the 
 
22 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 materialist should demonstrate that brain ehminates 
 thought, he will demonstrate the fact that that 
 thought was latent, either in the food that he eats, 
 the air that he breathes, or some other invisible agent 
 that enters into his composition. And thus he de- 
 monstrates the very thing which I am trying to 
 prove. 
 
 INFINITE SOURCE OF THOUGHT DEMONSTRATED. 
 
 If this thought is thus created out of spirit matter, 
 as the very proposition that we think demonstrates, 
 we have reached another fact ; and that is, that if we 
 think thoughts, there is, somewhere, an infinite source 
 of thought. That the union of these thoughts demon- 
 strates intelligence none will deny. I have been re- 
 ported an atheist ; it has been asserted that I do not 
 believe in a God. By this time my readers will know 
 better. I may not believe in a God of infinite wrath 
 and malevolence, as the clergy do, or a God ivith pas- 
 sions and emotions such as men have here, but I 
 believe that God is, notwithstanding. It is well 
 known that Kant found a negative to every proposi- 
 tion by which the existence of a God is established, 
 and hence I do not feel like saying much about him. 
 If he is infinite I can not describe him ; if he is all- 
 wise I can not comprehend him. If the theologian 
 can describe his God, I only have to say that, sooner 
 or later, people will outgrow him, and he will be 
 compelled to share the fate of all his predecessors. I 
 know God exists, because as a thinker I exist, and the 
 thinking I must have been drawn from some source 
 of intelligence, which I, for want of a more expres- 
 sive term, call God. Some individuals know of the 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 23 
 
 existence of a God, because they feel him. This can 
 be evidence to none other except the one who has the 
 experience. Because I do not believe in a personal 
 God, Elder Grant maintained that I did not believe 
 in a God at all. But I claim that I believe more in 
 God than does the elder. A personal God is just as 
 much of an organization as a human person, and Elder 
 Grant and his friends contend that God must have his 
 thoughts ground out through his brain. So, if his 
 brain was to accidentally become injured, his thoughts 
 woultl not be produced so effectually as if his brain 
 were perfectly harmonious. We are all more or less 
 like the elder in this respect; for we all anthropo- 
 morphize our deity and make him as near like our- 
 selves as possible. The elder's views of God are only 
 the orthodox views gone to seed. 
 
 GOD IS EITHER A SPIRIT OR CREATURE. 
 
 But all organisms suppose something anterior to 
 the structure of their organization. I have before me 
 a watch. This watch marks the time for me, dividing 
 each day into an equal number of hours. I perceive, 
 at once, that this organic structure came into exist- 
 ence for the purpose of answering a certain end. Or- 
 ganized beings never happen. There are but two 
 ways that they can come. One is through the devel- 
 opment of the elements of which they are composed ; 
 the other is by special creation. Now, if God is a 
 person, or is even endowed with the peculiarities with 
 which theologians credit him, it is demonstrated at 
 once that he has come into existence either through 
 development or by creation. For the organic struc- 
 ture of the brain, drawn from material elements, 
 
24 THE HEKE AFTER. 
 
 could not always have existed in their present form, 
 since to deprive matter of the powers of change is to 
 deprive it of life. If the elements of God's body 
 and brain were drawn from matter in order to its or- 
 ganic structure, it develops the fact that long before 
 the production of this organic structure, there were 
 elements out of which to produce it ; and since 
 thought is only eliminated through (or hy) the brain, 
 it demonstrates that there was a time when God could 
 not think. But long before this there were in exist- 
 ence the elements of thought ; for if there had not 
 been, thought would never have been developed. 
 Now, this fact demonstrates that I believe in a God 
 who existed not only long anterior to Elder Grant's 
 God, but one without which the elder's God would 
 never have had an existence ; for if he had not de- 
 veloped out of my God, then this Being, which I 
 have found existing long anterior to organization of 
 matter, must have created him. In any event, so 
 far from my disbelieving in a Deity, I believe that 
 all the little churchal and mythological gods — if ever 
 they existed — have been made either out of him, or 
 by him. 
 
 HOW ARE SPIRITS DEVELOPED ? 
 
 The question now comes concerning our spirits : 
 How do they come into existence ? I have already 
 told you what thought is — a bundle of spirit fibers. 
 I believe spirit to be a bundle of thoughts — or ideas, 
 if you Avish. Let us take the child to start our spirit. 
 Starting with one thought, which is attracted to the 
 brain for the purpose of manifesting itself through 
 matter (as we can prove that the spiritual education 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 25 
 
 must be built on a material education), it finds itself 
 unequal to the task without another thought to aid 
 it. This renders it negative to the spirit matter about 
 it, for there is a want in its nature which can only 
 be supplied by elements of spirit such as are neces- 
 sary to compose another thought ; hence just such 
 forces as are necessary for this other thought are 
 attracted. But the spirit elements of a second 
 thought can not well concentrate without carrying 
 with them other elements. And again, we should 
 find a want in this newly-formed spirit, for the want 
 of other elements to make a harmony with these al- 
 ready centered together. The best illustration I can 
 give of this is to state that the process of spirit devel- 
 opment is in no way unlike the development of the 
 human species. Commencing with the embryo, which 
 is only a single cell, like the commencement of the 
 spongiole, we trace the development on and on until 
 we have reached man. So, commencing with the cel- 
 lular structure of the spirit, We continue to ascend 
 higher and higher, until we arrive at the loftiest 
 angel who assists in the development of the lower 
 orders of beings. 
 
 Now, man has in his nature a constant demand for 
 something just beyond. He is not satisfied with his 
 present status. We all feel that we are imperfect, 
 and this very feeling is a constant draft on spirit mat- 
 ter for the elements we so much need to harmonize 
 and perfect our spiritual organizations. But so soon 
 as we shall have attained this, the very elements we 
 have obtained will not only bring a want with itself, 
 but it will enable us to realize that there are other 
 wants in our natures, and this longing desire will con- 
 
26 THE HEEEAFTEE. 
 
 tinue to reach out to them until they are attained, 
 and so on ad infinitum. 
 
 THE PEINCIPLE OF LIFE. 
 
 These thoughts can not be seen. They are only 
 felt. Yet the only evidence we have of the principle 
 of life is manifest in this way. This life we can not 
 see, yet it is so connected with the elements of spirit, 
 that unless you have the one, you can not expect the 
 others. Here are two acorns : one of them I give to 
 a chemist, who pulverizes it — analyzes it. He tells 
 us such a percentage of it is composed of hydrogen, 
 such another per cent, of it is composed of carbon, 
 and perhaps there is a small percentage of it oxygen 
 and other elements and gases. But there is one 
 thing which has escaped his notice. That was the 
 life which escaped from the acorn when he pulverized 
 it. I take the good acorn, however, and plant it, and 
 I have demonstrated that the life germ of the stately 
 oak was incased in that tiny shell. He has destroyed 
 the life principle in the acorn without discovering it, 
 but I have preserved and developed it in the little 
 seed that I planted. This is one of the hidden forces 
 of nature, and demonstrates that there are properties 
 beyond the crucial tests of scientific men. Again, we 
 demonstrate another fact, or the same fact over. If 
 there were not the elements of life to draw from, the 
 acorn would never have been enabled to collect w 7 ithin 
 itself those elements. If this principle of life is not 
 the same in essence as spirit, it is entirely in harmony 
 with it. Else we should have spirit outside of life, 
 which is impossible.* 
 * Lest the captious reader should deny that intelligence exists in 
 
ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE DEVELOPED. 27 
 
 I will not now take time to cany this argument 
 out, and demonstrate immortality from it, as this part 
 of the argument may be treated in the discussion of 
 the next phase of the subject. One more illustration 
 of this principle, which we all acknowledge, and I 
 will give you a rest. 
 
 There is taken into your church, for the funeral 
 rites, the body of one of your citizens. You look 
 upon it, and see the limbs which were active in life 
 now motionless ; his eyes see not, his ears hear not, 
 nor does his heart beat. You have all known him 
 familiarly by the name of John, and you all say John 
 was a good man. You say was, not is ; for all that 
 made John good has gone, and only the body, through 
 which he manifested this goodness, remains. You 
 formed your estimate of the man, not on account of 
 his beautiful organic structure, which, to be sure, never 
 fails to please the ideal, but from something within 
 the man which you could not see. That unseen prin- 
 ciple which you so much admired and loved was that 
 which used the body before you to such happy effect 
 in this world. 
 
 After you have tired looking at his exjDressionless 
 countenance, you say, " Take away this body, and 
 bury it; it is a solemn mockery ! Since the escape of 
 that principle there is nothing left of it for me to ad- 
 life, I will ask his careful attention to a chapter entitled " Do Plants 
 Think?" in pp. 203-213 of the To-Morroiv of Death, by Louis 
 Figuerer. I doubt whether plants think as we do, since thought can 
 not well he outwardly manifested without cephalization. But that 
 there is spirit matter about plants enough to direct them in their 
 motions there can be no doubt. This intelligence is different, how- 
 ever, but not so much so as it is outside of organic structure. 
 
28 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 mire." Ah ! all that you loved of John has gone, and 
 yon love him still ; but you never cared for his body 
 only as it could be used by his spirit for the manifesta- 
 tion of good. Now, shall we suppose that all that we 
 loved — all that by which John identified himself to 
 us as a good man — died with the body ? No ; when 
 the body he was using became unfit for his service, 
 and he could no longer use it, he left it and ascended 
 higher, where he could be clothed with his spirit 
 body, and continue the work so graciously commenced 
 here. 
 
 You do not measure your friends and neighbors by 
 the size or appearance of their bodies. You say 
 neighbor such a one is a good man because there is 
 something behind his material organism pushing him 
 forward to do good deeds. You do not so much ad- 
 mire the instrument through which these deeds are 
 done, as you do the motive power that caused them 
 to be done. Yourselves being witness, there is an 
 unseen principle with each and every one of your 
 neighbors which determines your estimation of their 
 characters. That this principle lives I shall try to 
 establish in succeeding chapters. 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 29 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED BY THE PHENOME- 
 NA OF OCCULT FORCES. 
 
 A Spirit in Man. — Our Magnetic Surroundings. — Magnetic Exchanges. — We 
 think through other People's Brains. — Magnetic Healing.— Unconscious 
 Action of the Brain. — Case of Suspended Consciousness. — Psychometry. — 
 The Dog. — Why Females reach Conclusions quicker than Males. — Mind- 
 reading. — A New Faculty to he developed. — Mind compared to Itadiata. — 
 Clairvoyance. — Dreams. — Case related by Dr. Bushnell. — The Lawyer's 
 Dream. — The Teller's Dream. — Intelligence conveyed by a Dream. — 
 Witchcraft. — Resurrection.— Roger Williams' Body stolen by an Apple Tree. 
 
 — Ten Bodies : will all be raised ? — What is Death? — Evidences of Immor- 
 tality from the Imperfection of our Organisms. — Evidence of Dying Persons. 
 
 — " Sweet Angels, I am Coming." — " Sainted Wife." — "Who will carry me 
 over the Mountain?" — " There is Bertha." — " It is all right: I come." 
 
 " There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of 
 the Almighty giveth them under standing." (Job 
 xxxii. 8.) 
 
 This language was used by Elihn, a heathen poet, 
 in the presence of Job and his two friends. It appears 
 that one calamity after- another had befallen Job, un- 
 til he was entirely stripped of his property, and whol- 
 ly bereft of his family. The two friends who visited 
 and tried to comfort Job appear to have been min- 
 isters, in some respects not unlike the clergymen of 
 our times. They tried to convince him that all these 
 calamities had been judgments of God visited upon 
 poor Job for his sins. Job denied the charge, and 
 claimed that his moral character would compare very 
 
30 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 favorably with theirs. He referred to several in- 
 stances of his charity, and claimed that he had been 
 guilty of no crime. With all his real and alleged 
 crimes, he seems to have been a materialist. Not until 
 after he effectually silenced his two clerical friends did 
 Elihu attempt to speak : and he introduces his speech. 
 For he well knew that such an apology was necessary 
 if he undertook to do what the" others failed in doing. 
 So he says, " I am young, and ye are very old ; where- 
 fore I was afraid, and durst not show you mine opin- 
 ion. I said, days should speak, and multitude of years 
 should teach wisdom." But lest the question may be 
 asked if he ever attended a theological institution of 
 learning, he proceeds to tell them that man has a spir- 
 itual nature which can get understanding by coming 
 en rapport with the eternal I AM. 
 
 This power of coming en rapport with the beyond is 
 pertinent to this subject ; therefore I have quoted it. 
 It was by virtue of this spiritual nature that he as- 
 sumed to speak on subjects beyond the mental grasp 
 of the theologians of his day. 
 
 OUR MAGNETIC SURROUNDINGS. 
 
 Permit me to demonstrate the truth of the above 
 assertion, and I will do it by unseen forces, which are 
 now generally acknowledged to exist. The first force 
 to which the reader is introduced is \ magnetism, or mes- 
 merism, which is precisely the same thing. 
 
 We all hold certain relations to each other, and 
 sustain these relations by an unseen principle, which 
 we find hard to describe. We often form our likes 
 and dislikes of an individual merely from coming 
 within his or her atmosphere. The reason of this is, 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 31 
 
 that there are certain unseen elements in each per- 
 son's magnetic surroundings which are either benefi- 
 cial or pernicious to us. For we are constantly 
 throwing off magnetism which is now no longer use- 
 ful to. us, and inspiring new in its stead. I have al- 
 ready showed you the development of the body, how 
 it was made of the food we eat, the air we breathe, 
 &c. But as we develop within we must throw off 
 outwardly. We not only do this in a material sense, 
 but there are unseen forces continually in and around 
 us, undergoing the same process. 
 
 MAGNETIC EXCHANGES. 
 
 Now we have a surplus of some kinds of magnet- 
 ism, or some magnetic elements, while there is a want 
 of other elements. We find others who have a sur- 
 plus of that which we need, while they are in need 
 of that which is going to waste in our constitutions. 
 Wherever two such individuals meet, they can not 
 help feeling a sort of attraction for each^ other. It is 
 on the same principle of our attraction for a leafy 
 grove in summer. We have a surplus of carbon with- 
 in our systems, while the grove is continually inhal- 
 ing that element and expiring oxygen, and both are 
 benefited by the exchange. 
 
 WE THINK THROUGH OTHER BRAINS THAN OUR OWN. 
 
 This magnetic principle enables one individual to 
 come so en rapport with another as to get the control 
 of his or her organism, and use it for the expression 
 of his or her thoughts. If I should get thorough 
 magnetic control of an individual in an audience, I 
 am enabled to think through that individual's brain, 
 
32 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 and speak my thoughts through his organism, in just 
 the same way that I control my own organism. The 
 reason I can think, write, and speak is, because I am 
 in constant rapport with my brain. I am a spirit 
 as much as I will ever be, only that I am compelled 
 to give material expression to my ideas, in order to 
 be comprehended by those who are in the material. 
 Spirit is built upon matter, and as we can not be pre- 
 pared for a spiritual education until we have laid the 
 material groundwork, it is necessary that we should 
 remain en rapport with a material organism until we 
 have finished our education on that plain. Now, if I 
 should pass to the spirit world, the marks of dissolu- 
 tion having begun in my body as soon as I have left 
 it, it is impossible for me to get control of the nerve 
 forces so as to give expression of my thoughts to the 
 outward senses of individuals in earth life. The only 
 thing I can do is to hunt up a medium — one whose 
 brain is plastic, and get psychological control of the 
 brain of the medium. This I can do either by psy- 
 chologizing the spirit of the medium, or securing its 
 temporaiy absence ; then I can use the organism to 
 give expression to my thoughts. 
 
 I have taken some pains in my observance of this 
 phenomenon, and I find that nearly every class of 
 manifestation of a mental nature comes through the 
 mediumship of the brain. Let us take an instance 
 of mechanical spirit writing ; the hand and arm be- 
 come stiff, and pass entirely beyond the control of the 
 medium, and yet a writing is produced — the hand- 
 writing corresponding to the handwriting of the de- 
 ceased individual whose name is attached at the end 
 of the article. It is evident that the writer never 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 33 
 
 could have produced the writing except by getting 
 thorough control of the nervous system, and he could 
 only reach that through the mecliumship of the brain. 
 Notwithstanding, the brain has been made the medium 
 of the control of the nervous system, not one word 
 of the communication passed consciously through the 
 brain of the medium. I am now writing as if Spiritual- 
 ism were taken for granted ; if any should feel like 
 disputing this point, I will, for the sake of argument, 
 grant that the dead are unconscious. But magnetism 
 is clearly established as a fact, and few, if any, will 
 be prepared to dispute that. If, then, I am able to 
 think through another individual's brain, and give 
 material expression to my thoughts, without physical 
 contact, it demonstrates the truth that the I, that 
 does this thinking, is superior to the brain of the me- 
 dium I use ; for if the brain ground out thought, I 
 could have no way of reaching the brain of the medi- 
 um with that thought only by bringing that thought 
 in physical contact with the brain. If a thought of its 
 own volition passes across the space which separates 
 me from the medium, the fact by that act becomes es- 
 tablished that thought is an entity, which can force 
 itself upon the brain. Now, the thinking lis entire- 
 ly made up of these entities, and as each one of them 
 has power to force itself upon the brain of media, 
 it looks as if that were their customary way of mani- 
 festing. The /that does the thinking for my organ- 
 ism, is superior to the brain, through which thought is 
 eliminated. 
 
 MAGNETIC HEALING. 
 
 Let us take another class of experiments. An in- 
 3 
 
34 THE HEREAFTEK. 
 
 dividual has a severe attack of rheumatism. The 
 magnetizer approaches him, and makes certain passes 
 with his hands over the affected part, and it is better. 
 For the sake of the experiment he is required not to 
 touch the patient ; yet the effect is more than could 
 be expected from any medicine. What does it ? 
 Why will the patient get better under this treat- 
 ment when all other remedies fail? We can't see 
 the magnetism unless by clairvoyant vision, and we 
 have no way of distinguishing it as a force only by 
 the effects produced. Here is a power, then, by 
 which certain physical results are effected, almost en- 
 tirely under the control of the mind. If mind thus 
 controls these forces, then it demonstrates the fact 
 that these forces may be used for the perpetuity of 
 our existence after the death of our bodies. 
 
 "UNCONSCIOUS ACTION OF THE BRAIN. 
 
 As I could not introduce the " unconscious action 
 of the brain " in the proper place in this book, I shall 
 be compelled to notice it here. The reader well 
 knows that as he goes home from his day's work, 
 though his mind may be absorbed with the subject- 
 matter of a conversation with some one, he will turn 
 all the corners just right, and arrive home almost as 
 well as if he had concentrated his mind on the sub- 
 ject. Now, there is a way of explaining ; every 
 occurrence is governed by law, whether that law is 
 understood or not. Scientists tell us it is a latent 
 thought in the brain. But what stimulates that latent 
 thought into action? Is it not just as easy to think 
 that that is the grand thought of the spirit, it having 
 magnetized the brain thoroughly with that idea, and 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 35 
 
 set it going just right to make those turns in the proper 
 place, though the mind is absorbed in other things ? * 
 Many mechanical movements of our bodies seem like 
 a piece of machinery ; set in motion, it makes so many 
 strokes in a certain direction, when, by some mechani- 
 cal contrivance, a reversion of the action of the 
 whole machinery effects an entire change. 
 
 Just here an objector said to me, " I have an objec- 
 tion ; it is as follows : A hod-carrier was at one time 
 carrying some brick up a ladder, when the masons, 
 being out of brick, called out, ' More brick.' But be- 
 fore he could respond to the demand, a brick fell on 
 his head, and he was carried home senseless. He re- 
 mained in a semi-idiotic state for about seven years, 
 when the physicians, merely for an experiment, tried 
 to raise the part of the skull that was broken. They 
 succeeded, and the moment the brain was relieved 
 of its pressure, the man uttered the words, ' Ay, 
 ay, sir ! ' which were supposed to have been in re- 
 sponse to the demand of seven years previous." In 
 this instance it is supposed that the brain resumed 
 
 * It has been observed that wild deer will pass over precisely the 
 same strip of ground, where, perhaps fifty years previous they had 
 a trail — though the woods have been cleared away, and all signs of 
 the trail across fields, highways, &c, have been obliterated by the 
 enterprise of civilization. What is stranger than this is the fact 
 that birds of passage will invariably find the same invisible trail 
 through the air. There is only one known law by which this class 
 of phenomena may be accounted for ; that is, that an invisible some- 
 thing never fails of being constantly thrown off from each body, 
 which always remains to a certain extent in the place where it was 
 left, and which never fails of attracting affinities. If this principle 
 holds good, we may yet account not only for the above phenomena, 
 but many others. Probably these feelings are somewhat the cause 
 of our veneration for old home associations. 
 
36 THE HEEEAETEK. 
 
 the current of its thoughts just where it left off, seven 
 years before. Now, I find it a great deal easier to be- 
 lieve that this thought was retained by the spirit, than 
 that the brain manufactured the thought and retained 
 it seven years. Let us suppose that thought proceeds 
 from spirit ; would it not be much easier to suppose 
 that a message had been dictated seven years before, 
 and would take its turn in the message department, 
 than to suppose that the brain ground it out, but the 
 grist was never received until seven years after? The 
 natural conclusion, however, would be, that the spirit 
 touched the part of the brain necessary to make this 
 response, but failed. Having failed once, it would try 
 the same thing over again and again, thus experi- 
 menting upon the same words during the whole time. 
 The consequence would be that the whole atmosphere 
 about the individual, and especially that part of the 
 brain, would be impregnated with those words ; and 
 although he individually might actually forget the 
 demand that had been made seven years before, he 
 could not help making the response which is printed 
 all over his magnetism, for his being would be 
 thoroughly psychologized with these words. You 
 could understand the idea better if I were to illustrate 
 it by a musical instrument. If one of the ke} T s were 
 to be injured, a musician would find it impossible to 
 produce perfect music with it, although the music 
 may have been in the individual's mind. Now, the 
 brain is operated on somewhat like a key-board. If 
 any of the organs of the brain are injured, the spirit 
 finds it a matter of impossibility to reproduce the 
 thoughts which are eliminated by this part of the or- 
 gan of the mind. 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 37 
 
 PSYCHOMETRY. 
 
 Another unseen force may be observed in Psychom- 
 etry, sometimes termed " mind-reading." Perhaps 
 all have observed the faculty so prominent in dogs. 
 It has generally been supposed that the dogs scent the 
 track of such animals as they wish to capture. But 
 I find it very hard to believe that the olfactories of a 
 dog are so refined as to scent out and distinguish his 
 master's tracks from a hundred or a thousand others, 
 who, perhaps, have passed in every direction across 
 his master's track since it was there. Let us suppose 
 that there is a magnetic aura attending each individ- 
 ual, as unlike any other person as is his character, 
 and that the dog has a spiritual sense so refined as to 
 distinguish these as he would his master's face or 
 voice ; we can then understand how easy it would be 
 for a sensitive animal, if fully developed in that facul- 
 ty, to distinguish these, one from the other. " But," 
 I think I hear it objected, "you are not going to 
 argue that dogs have immortal spirits — are } r ou? " I 
 will not undertake to tell what is in the future for ani- 
 mals ; but I can not see why they should not have. 
 That they have this life is certain, and I can under- 
 stand no law by which it can be dissipated. 
 
 ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION. 
 
 I will take another illustration. A gentleman in- 
 vites a stranger to his house, and introduces him to 
 his wife as Mr. A. During the interview, the lady 
 catches enough of the conversation to understand that 
 Mr. A. and her husband are talking about entering 
 into partnership. She, not being favorably impressed 
 
38 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 with him, improves the first opportunity to talk the 
 matter over with her husband. The conversation 
 would run about as follows : — 
 
 Wife. You are not going to enter into a partner- 
 ship with that man — are you ? 
 
 Husband. Why, yes ; we are talking a little about 
 it! 
 
 W. Well, I would not have much to do with him. 
 
 IT. Why not? 
 
 W. Because I do not believe he is an honest man, 
 and I am afraid he will cheat you. 
 
 H. Why do you not think he is honest ? He has 
 as good references as there are in the world. 
 
 W. I can't help it. I do not believe he is honest. 
 
 H. But why do you question his honesty ? 
 
 W. I don't know ; somehow I feel that he is not 
 all right. 
 
 It may take this man several years to learn that 
 what his wife felt was true ; but sooner or later, he 
 learns, by bitter experience, that she felt Mr. A.'s 
 moral condition. She was not able to give any rea- 
 son for her suspicions, only that she felt there was 
 something wrong with the gentleman. That was all 
 she knew about it. The truth is, this man carried 
 the defects of his moral character in his magnetic sur- 
 roundings, and when the lady came in contact with 
 him, she felt that there was something wanting, and 
 that sooner or later it would manifest itself. But this 
 fault in his character could only be manifested to 
 those who had a power beyond the five senses. Such 
 persons will solve one of your life problems without 
 a thought, the truth of which it will take you months 
 
A FUTCJRE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 39 
 
 to demonstrate, thus developing a faculty within her 
 beyond the reach of your fine senses. 
 
 MIND-READING. 
 
 I know a lady who will take any fragment of stone 
 you may give her, and describe the country in which 
 you got it ; there are some who will take up a piece 
 of writing, and m describe the author as correctly as 
 could be done by his most intimate friends. Permit 
 me to say right here, that this power is only found 
 amongst Spiritualists. Ministers assert that it is 
 " mind-reading." If so, why is it not found in the 
 churches ? Some of them profess to explain it upon 
 scientific laws: why, then, do they not allow the 
 science cultivated in their churches ? Every one 
 knows that it would be worth any person's position 
 in his church to have such a faculty developed in 
 his organism. Dr. Graves, of Memphis, denounced 
 me as an infidel for my explanations of these phe- 
 nomena, yet his explanations of the manifestations of 
 Spiritualism will explain away every jot and tittle of 
 the New Testament. If this mind-reading is a science, 
 and Spiritualists are developing it, why is it that this 
 reverend denouncer wages such a warfare upon them ? 
 He knows nothing of these things, only as he learns of 
 Spiritualists. Should this development continue, he 
 will continue to be dependent on Spiritualism for 
 every fact he may get. 
 
 A NEW ORGANIC FACULTY IN PROCESS OF DEVELOP- 
 MENT. 
 
 I believe there is a development now going on in 
 the human mind : if it does not develop a duplicate 
 
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 40 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 of each of the five senses, it will succeed in develop- 
 ing entirely a new faculty. It will be remembered 
 that in the preceding chapter I hinted that this devel- 
 opment always extends towards the supply of the wants 
 of the individual. In future illustration I will say, the 
 radiata are compelled to send out feelers toward the 
 five points around them, that they may draw in such 
 elements as are necessary to their higher development. 
 I do not know that here is a prophecy of the five 
 senses. But I ascend a grade higher, and I find another 
 animal entirely dependent on feelers which it sends 
 out before it, so it may feel its way. As thus you as- 
 cend the grade, there would come a period when these 
 tentacles would become very sensitive to every object 
 coming within their touch. A very little higher, and 
 these tentacles become sensitive to the light, and ob- 
 jects reflecting the light would throw that reflection 
 upon these feelers, and they would get the impression 
 of the object before they came in reach of it. From 
 this it would be very easy to continue this development 
 until we had a perfect eye. The human family, I 
 sometimes think, hold the same relation to some fu- 
 ture period of the human race that the star-fish does 
 to the present race of men. We are just beginning to 
 realize that there is a spiritual atmosphere, and we 
 are putting forth our feelers to ascertain what there 
 is in the Beyond. As everything develops on the line 
 of its attraction, there must come a time when this 
 spiritual want of our natures will be supplied. Hence 
 the time must come when men will see spirits and talk 
 with them as naturally as they hold intercourse with 
 their fellow-mortals. It is in such strict harmony 
 with science, that I have no means of avoiding the 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 41 
 
 conclusion. And not only that, but there is a cor- 
 responding development of the spirit world. For 
 while, like a tottering child, we are reaching to the 
 next highest point above us, we find angel hands 
 reaching with parental fondness toward us. I be- 
 lieve this communion will become more intimate, and 
 our perceptions will become brighter, till in time we 
 shall discover that now and then we are only gathering 
 up a few pebbles while the great ocean of truth shall 
 remain before us unexplored. And as we shall step 
 into the margin of its clear waters, we shall get a 
 faint glimpse of the work of eternity unfolding be- 
 fore us. 
 
 There is another force, in some respects unlike the 
 one I have been writing of, but which demonstrates 
 itself to be no less a spiritual faculty than those to 
 which I have referred. It, too, is a science found 
 solely amongst Spiritualists, and is called 
 
 CLAIRVOYANCE, OR CLEAR SEEING. 
 
 I need not demonstrate that there are persons who 
 can see through the walls of a house, and tell how 
 the furniture is arranged within, or tell jou if your 
 physical organs are not properly doing their work. 
 They will tell what organs are deranged. These facts 
 are being demonstrated in almost every neighborhood, 
 and nobody that cares for a good reputation as a reader 
 and thinker would venture to deny them. In order, 
 however, to show what prejudice will do for a man, 1 
 quote the following extract from " The Footfalls on 
 the Boundary of Another World," p. 94. 
 
 " When I was in Paris," says Rogers (the poet) in 
 his " Table Talk," " I went to Alexis and desired him 
 
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 42 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 to describe my house in St. James' Place. On my 
 word he astonished me ! He described most exactly 
 the peculiarities of the staircase ; said that not far 
 from the window in the drawing-room there was a pic- 
 ture of a man in armor (the painting by Georgione), 
 and so on. Colonel Gurwqod, shortly before his death, 
 assured me that he was reminded by Alexis of some 
 circumstances that had happened to him in Spain, 
 and which he could not conceive how any human 
 being, except himself, should know. Still I can not 
 believe in clairvoyance, because the thing is impossi- 
 ble." 
 
 All our knowledge has been obtained through the 
 mediumship of the five senses, and the man who can 
 not rely upon them is in a desperate condition indeed. 
 This clairvoyance demonstrates that individuals may 
 see without eyes. 
 
 DREAMS. 
 
 There is often something peculiar in dreaming — 
 something which seems to transcend all known laws 
 governing our organism. Many of our most imperfect 
 dreams are stimulated by a disordered stomach. The 
 query often arises, Is there such a thing as a dream- 
 less sleep ? This is often answered in the affirmative. 
 The most we can say on this subject, after all, how- 
 ever, is, that we do not remember to have had a dream 
 at certain times, when we have been known to sleep ; 
 but since there are many of this very class who talk 
 in their sleep, and walk in their sleep, which could 
 not be done without a corresponding action of the 
 mind, we may safely conclude that it is very possible 
 to forget our dreams. My brother Moses, when a 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 43 
 
 boy, and working at the carpenter's trade, used fre- 
 quently to get up in the night, and walk about, talking 
 with different ones ; but in the morning he could not 
 have the least recollection of what had transpired in his 
 sleep. One morning he was perfectly astonished to find 
 a bunch of shingles on a large barn he had carried up 
 in his sleep. I need not say that it took some persua- 
 sion on the part of his co-laborers to convince him that 
 he performed that feat whilst he was taking his usual 
 exercise during his sleep. 
 
 HELP AMXD SNOW-DRIFTS. 
 
 Dr. Bushnell, on pp. 475, 476, of his book, "Na- 
 ture and the Supernatural," tells the following story 
 of Captain Yount, of Napa Valley, California, whose 
 character and integrity are vouched for in the strongest 
 terms. The story was related to him by Captain 
 Yount in person, and the fact is known to the whole 
 community. It is also quoted in Owen's " Footfalls," 
 p. 457. 
 
 " About six or seven years previous, in a midwin- 
 ter's night, he had a dream, in which he saw what ap- 
 peared to be a company of emigrants, arrested by the 
 snows of the mountains, and perishing rapidly by cold 
 and hunger. He noted the very cast of the scenery, 
 marked by a huge perpendicular front of white rock 
 cliff. He saw the men cutting off what appeared to 
 be tree-tops rising out of deep gulfs of snow. He dis- 
 tinguished the very features of the persons, and the 
 look of their particular distress. 
 
 " He awoke profoundly impressed with the distinct- 
 ness and apparent reality of this dream. At length 
 he fell asleep, and dreamed exactly the same dream 
 
44 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 again. In the morning he conld not expel it from his 
 mind. Falling in shortly with an old hunter com- 
 rade, he told him the story, and was only the more 
 deeply impressed by his recognizing, without hesita- 
 tion, the scenery of the dream. This hunter had come 
 over the Sierra by the Carson Valley Pass, and de- 
 clared that a spot in the pass answered exactly to his 
 description. By this the unsophisticated patriarch was 
 decided. 
 
 " He immediately collected a company of men, with 
 mules and blankets, and all necessary provisions. The 
 neighbors were laughing meantime at his credulity. 
 
 " ' No matter,' said he ; 'I am able to do this, and I 
 will, for I verily believe that the fact is according to 
 my dream.' 
 
 " The men were sent into the mountains, one hun- 
 dred and fifty miles distant, directly to the Carson 
 Valley Pass; and there they found the company in 
 exactly the condition of the dream, and brought in 
 the remnant alive." 
 
 It would be somewhat difficult to make a clear case 
 of mind-reading in this instance, unless he had gone 
 there as a spirit, which may be probable. But this 
 would supersede the necessity for mind-reading. 
 
 There are several points in this case which it would 
 be well not to overlook. 1st. Captain Yount knew 
 of no such pass. Hence his dream was not the re- 
 sult of anything he had heard or seen. 2d. He obtained 
 a knowledge of their suffering condition only by means 
 of his dream, and but for that they would have per- 
 ished. Here, then, is a clear case of a man who re- 
 ceived his knowledge of a locality and its surroundings, 
 and the suffering people in it, by some kind of a force 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 45 
 
 outside of his five senses. 3d. He found on his arrival 
 at this scene of suffering that he had not made a single 
 mistake in his dream. Now, how happens it that he 
 should dream out all these facts, and who imparted 
 them to him ? 
 
 THE LAWYER'S DREAM. 
 
 Abercrombie, in his " Intellectual Powers," p. 222, 
 cites the following case of a distinguished lawyer. It 
 is reproduced by Hon. R. D. Owen on p. 127 of his 
 "Footfalls." 
 
 14 This eminent person had been consulted respect- 
 ing a case of great importance and much difficulty, and 
 he had been studying it with intense anxiety and at- 
 tention. After several days had been occupied in this 
 manner, he was observed by his wife to rise from his 
 bed in the night, and go to a writing-desk which stood 
 in the bed-room. He then sat down and wrote a long 
 paper, which he carefully put by in the desk, and re- 
 turned to bed. The following morning he told his 
 wife he had had a most interesting dream ; that he had 
 dreamed of delivering a clear and luminous opinion 
 respecting a. case which had exceedingly perplexed 
 him ; and he would give anything to recover the train 
 of thought which had passed before him in his sleep. 
 She then directed him to the writing-desk, where he 
 found the opinion clearly and fully written out. It 
 was afterward found to be perfectly correct." 
 
 THE TELLER'S DREAM. 
 
 On p. 205 of the same book another account is 
 given of the dream of a teller of a bank in Glasgow. 
 It is also quoted in " Footfalls," p. 163. 
 
46 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 " The gentleman was at the time connected with 
 one of the principal banks in Glasgow, and was at his 
 place at the teller's table, where money is paid, when 
 a person entered demanding payment of a sum of six 
 pounds. There were several persons waiting, who 
 were in turn entitled to be served before him ; but he 
 was extremely impatient and rather noisy, and being, 
 besides, a remarkable stammerer, he became so an- 
 noying that another gentleman requested my friend to 
 pay him his money and get rid of him. He did so 
 accordingly, but with an expression of impatience at 
 being obliged to attend to him before his turn ; and 
 he thought no more of the transaction. 
 
 " At the end of the year, which was eight or nine 
 months after, the books of the bank could not be made 
 to balance, the deficiency being exactly six pounds. 
 Several clays and nights had been spent in endeavoring 
 to discover the error, but without success, when, at 
 last, my friend returned home, much fatigued, and 
 went to bed. 
 
 " He dreamed of being at his place in the bank, and 
 the whole transaction with the stammerer, as now de- 
 tailed, passed before him in all its particulars. He 
 awoke under the full impression that the dream was 
 to lead him to the discovery of what he was so anx- 
 iously in search of ; and on investigating, he soon dis- 
 covered that the sum paid to this person, in the manner 
 now mentioned, had been neglected to be inserted in 
 the book of interests, and that it exactly accounted 
 for the error in the balance." 
 
 INTELLIGENCE CONVEYED BY A DREAM. 
 
 One day last April, 1 872, Mrs. S. J. C, a lady in whom 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 47 
 
 I had great confidence, as also had all her acquaintan- 
 ces, said to me, — 
 
 " I must tell you a dream I had three weeks ago. 
 It seemed that I was at home in New England, and 
 carrying a bucket full of water, when I heard a voice 
 crying, i Somebody is dead ! ' The voice was so sud- 
 den that it startled me, and it seemed that I dropped 
 my bucket, which awakened me. But I went to sleep, 
 and the dream was repeated. About a week after- 
 ward I received a letter from my mother, informing 
 me that my father had died on that same night." 
 
 Enough on this subject. All must be convinced 
 that there was a happy coincidence between the 
 dreams and the facts. The evidence of design was 
 never more complete. 
 
 WITCHCRAFT. 
 
 . Another peculiarity, where persons were supposed 
 to transcend their natural powers, is the case of the 
 Salem witchcraft. Cotton Mather, who caused more 
 witches and wizards to be punished than any one 
 else, tells some curious stories about them. He tells 
 us that some of his servants were bewitched, and that 
 they were able, under the spell, to talk Latin, Greek, 
 and Hebrew, quite as fluently as he could. In their 
 normal state they knew nothing of these languages. 
 Here was a power similar to that with which the apos- 
 tles were endowed in early times ; and what better 
 evidences did he want that a witch-finder was needed ? 
 But at that time it was a sign of apostleship ; now it 
 was entirely the reverse. 
 
 The very fact that this power is manifested in the 
 
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 48 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 unfortunately bewitched ones of that time establishes 
 that there is something in the unseen which must come 
 in magnetic rapport with us, and talk through our 
 organisms. 
 
 Just here a few thoughts on the resurrection will 
 not be amiss. I believe in a resurrection from the 
 dead, but not of the dead. The reason I do not be- 
 lieve in a resurrection of the dead, is because I con- 
 ceive it to be utterly impossible. Take the case of 
 Roger Williams, which was referred to by the papers 
 a few years since. They had undertaken to remove 
 the body ; but when they dug down into the grave, 
 they found no body there. An apple tree that stood 
 at the head of the grave had sent out a root, which, 
 entering his head, passed down his spine, sending out 
 branches for each limb of his body. This tree had ac- 
 tually filched away his body, and reproduced it in the 
 fruit of the tree, which had actually been eaten by the 
 visitors at the grave of the first governor of Rhode 
 Island. Now, inasmuch as the materials of Roger 
 Williams' body had gone to make up other organ- 
 isms, what will Roger Williams do, in the resurrection, 
 for a body ? These men who may have the right in 
 possession of his body will hardly be willing to give 
 up the little of it he may claim, for if they should it 
 would establish a precedent requiring them to give 
 away by littles until the whole body is gone ; and then 
 what would they do ? 
 
 Science teaches that our bodies are always dying 
 and going away from us, and new bodies are constantly 
 being created for us, which take the place of the old 
 ones, which have died ; that each day a certain portion 
 of our bodies is eliminated, and the place supplied 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 49 
 
 with new material. The reader may test this at any- 
 time by rolling up one of his sleeves, and damping the 
 other hand, and rubbing energetically the bare arm. 
 Small particles of what has once been the flesh and 
 blood of the individual will be rolled out from be- 
 neath the surface of the skin, If the experimenter 
 will save all this exhausted matter, with the parings 
 of his finger nails and the cuttings from the hair, and 
 put it in an urn, he will find that once in about six or 
 seven years he will have materials of an old body 
 fully equal in weight to the present one. In the course 
 of a lifetime he will have had about nine different 
 bodies, besides the one which dies last ! When I ask 
 which of my bodies will be raised, I am answered, the 
 last one. Very well ; then it would be just like one 
 of the devil's tricks to go and raise the other nine 
 bodies, and then what a quarrel we should have about 
 who should go to heaven or that other place as the 
 representative of D. W. Hull ! 
 
 Death is a separation of the particles, and whenever 
 the body has lost its life, it is unfit for the use of the 
 spirit. Then the spirit, which can not die, must at- 
 tract to it the particles of another body, adapted to the 
 higher wants of the individual. 
 
 I hold that inasmuch as the spirit is composed of 
 spirit elements, these elements can not be separated 
 without pain ; and as the soul naturally shrinks from 
 suffering and pain, and as every attempt at a dissolution 
 inevitably causes pain, it is utterly impossible for the 
 spirit ever to be destroyed. 
 
 Inasmuch as the spirit was composed of particles of 
 spirit matter, which came in answer to the demand of 
 spirit, and this want ever continuing to attract spirit 
 material, the conclusion is inevitable that the spirit will 
 
50 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 ever continue to renew itself so long as there shall be 
 a want in its nature, I therefore conceive the spirit 
 to be immortal. 
 
 EVIDENCE OF DYING PERSONS. 
 
 I will now pass to notice another kind of evidence. 
 How often has it been the case that persons with the 
 full powers of their mind, in every sense of the word, 
 tell us, as they near the river of death, of the beauti- 
 ful sights beyond ! Sometimes they seem to be half 
 across the river, in sight of the other shore, yet in 
 hearing of this, when to those left behind pointing out 
 here and there on the shore the form of some loved 
 one waiting to greet them when they shall press the 
 soil of immortality. 
 
 SWEET ANGELS, I AM COMING. 
 
 FROM THE INDEPENDENT. 
 
 " Do they want me up in heaven? Can you tell me, mamma dear, 
 "What those strange and solemn voices mean that in the night I hear, 
 Softly saying, ' Come, dear children ; for of such our kingdoms are? ' 
 Do you think they want me yonder? Is it very, very far? 
 
 " O, I hear such heavenly music; and there's something all in white 
 Comes and stands beside my little bed, and makes the room so light 
 That I look at you and papa, and at brother Georgie, too, 
 Wondering you can sleep. But maybe it's for me, and not for you. 
 
 " And they clasp their arms about me, and I do not think of pain, 
 For I close my eyes and listen till the music comes again. 
 They are calling me so tenderly, I know I can not stay 
 Only just a little longer, till the coming of the day. 
 
 " Mamma, kiss me ! Papa, hold me ! Clasp my hands so close and 
 
 strong 
 That I may not lose your presence in the glory of the throng 
 Who have come to take me from you, and will wait for you again, 
 When dear Jesus says, 'Come higher I Joy receive for grief and 
 
 pain.' 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 51 
 
 " There is something I must tell you ere I go, if you can hear: 
 I shall tell them how I loved you; they can never be more dear; 
 And perhaps they'll let me see you, when you think I'm far away, 
 And will let me guard and guide your steps from evil day by day. 
 
 " When you pray, I may be listening, and my heart will thrill with 
 
 joy- 
 If you fail and sin — God help us ! — it will crush your darling boy. 
 I shall draw you to me softly, as the angels take me now." 
 So the little voice is silenced, and the stricken mourners bow. 
 
 I was once a materialist. I believed there was no 
 future life until the resurrection of the body. My 
 wife's sister, Miss Martha Murphey, entertained the 
 same belief. One morning I was sent for to come to 
 her bedside, as she was dying. When I got there she 
 had lost control of the physical organism, and was 
 soon with the risen angels. What was strange to me, 
 however, was, that her last words were in response to 
 the beckoning angels. She had gone too far to speak 
 back to the weeping ones, and she left as a memento 
 of the happy reception awaiting her, the words, 
 " Sweet angels, I am coming ! " And from that time 
 until tJje present moment has this glorious gospel of 
 immortality echoed back to me, starting the life-blood 
 anew, and quickening my whole being. 
 
 " SAINTED WIFE." 
 
 Bishop Cummings, of St. Paul's Church, Louisville, 
 Ky., relates the following case of awakened spiritual 
 vision : — 
 
 " An old man, who died not long since, for hours 
 before the final struggle fixed his eyes upon a form in 
 the room, invisible to all but him. It was a form he 
 knew, and upon it he gazed, without the power of 
 
52 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 those present to change his vision. It was known upon 
 whom those dying eyes were so intently fixed when 
 the trembling lips, for the last time, syllabled the name 
 of his sainted wife, who had long preceded him to the 
 grave. Who doubts that her spirit was there to con- 
 duct his to the better world ? The rod and the staff 
 were there to comfort the good old man, and he feared 
 no evil in the valley of the shadow of death. The 
 living, flushed with life, may not see these ministering 
 spirits around the bed of death ; but we know not in 
 what way death's approaches may prepare the dying 
 for the sight of those ethereal forms that inhabit other 
 spheres. They may sometimes be at the rod and the 
 staff which make death but a shadow — which comfort 
 the dying, and make them to fear no evil." 
 
 "WHO WILE CARRY ME OVER THE MOUNTAIN?" 
 
 The following I clipped from a paper several years 
 since : — 
 
 " A few years ago, in a New England village, a lit- 
 tle boy lay on his death-bed. Starting suddenly up, 
 he exclaimed, ' O, mother, mother ! I see such a beau- 
 tiful country, and so many little children, who are 
 beckoning me to them ! but there are high mountains 
 between us, too high for me to climb. Who will 
 carry me over ? ' After thus expressing himself, he 
 leaned back on his pillow, and for a while seemed to 
 be in deep thought, when, once more arousing, and 
 stretching out his little hands, he cried, as loud as 
 his feeble voice would permit, c Mother, mother, the 
 strong man's come to carry me over the mountain.' 
 He was peacefully asleep. The strong man had indeed 
 come to carry the little one over." 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 53 
 
 In a work entitled " Looking Beyond," by J. O. Bar- 
 rett, many similar circumstances are described, some 
 of which I will here repeat. 
 
 " Rachel Colburn, of Geneva, Wis., seventeen years 
 old, when conscious of death's call, said to all, ' Good 
 by — come to me. O, yes ; I see now ; there is Ber- 
 tha [her sister's departed child]. She can walk 
 now. There is David's father [her mother's first 
 husband, whom she had never before seen] , and there 
 is Mrs. French's child. Why, these little babes have 
 silver bells in their hands ! ' 
 
 " ' Kiss him for me,' said Mrs. French. 
 
 " ' O, yes, I will,' said Rachel; and the kiss on those 
 spirit lips was so sweet that earth was forgotten, for 
 -she was in heaven."- — Looking Beyond, p. 76. 
 
 "IT IS ALL EIGHT : I COME." 
 
 " When the beloved Judge Wheelock, of Rockford, 
 111., was ready to exchange worlds, he exclaimed, 
 4 What light is that ? ' On being informed there was 
 no light in the room, he said, 4 Ah, but I see a bright 
 light.' Then clasping his hands, he said, c It is all 
 right: I come.' Soon he roused up, and said, ' Charles ! 
 Charles ! ' His son-in-law, whose name is Charles Lew- 
 is, went to him and said, ' What do you want, father? 
 Here I am.' He opened his eyes, and cried out with a 
 loud voice, ' Charles Wheelock ! Charles Wheelock ! ' 
 and immediately ceased breathing. Charles Wheelock 
 was a son of his who died in California some years 
 ago." — Looking Beyond, p. 81. 
 
54 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 WHY THE DYING SEE. 
 
 There are cases similar to that which has been wit- 
 nessed everywhere. The dying see : having lost sight 
 of earthly things to a certain degree, the spirit seems 
 to be quickened, so that, as they lose their hold here, 
 they grasp more firmly that life which is above. It 
 seems that as the body grows weak, and becomes 
 negative, angels have more power to throw them- 
 selves before our spiritual vision, and having phy- 
 sical strength left, we hand back the messages we 
 are receiving from the other side. O, what a happy 
 sight it must be, as our boat nears the other shore, to 
 see the eager ones waiting for us ! O, 
 
 " Who will greet me first in heaven, 
 
 When that blissful realm I gain, 
 When the hands have ceased from toiling, 
 
 And the heart hath ceased from pain, 
 When the last farewell is spoken, 
 
 Severed the last tender tie, 
 And I know how sweet, how solemn, 
 
 And how blest it is to die ? 
 
 As my bark glides o'er the waters 
 
 Of that cold and silent stream, 
 And I see the domes of temples 
 
 In the distance brightly gleam, — 
 Temples of that beauteous city, 
 
 Erom all blight and sorrow free, - 
 Who adown its golden portals 
 
 First will haste to welcome me ? 
 
 Ah, whose eyes will watch my coming, 
 From that fair and beauteous shore ? 
 
 Whose the voice I first shall listen, 
 That shall teach me heavenly lore ? 
 
A FUTURE LIFE DEMONSTRATED. 55 
 
 When my feet shall press the mystic 
 
 Borders of that better land, 
 Whose face greet my wandering vision, 
 
 Whose shall clasp the spirit hand? 
 
 Who will greet me first in heaven? 
 
 Oft the earnest thought will rise, 
 Musing on the unknown glories 
 
 Of that home beyond the skies. 
 Who will be my heavenly mentor? 
 
 Will it be some seraph bright, 
 Or an angel from the countless 
 
 Myriads of that world of light? 
 
 No, not these, for they have never 
 
 Dawned upon my mortal view ; 
 But the dear ones gone before us — 
 
 They the loved, the tried, the true. 
 They who walked with us life's pathway, 
 
 To its joys and griefs were given, 
 They who loved us best in earth-land 
 
 Be the first to greet in heaven." 
 
 Allie Wellington. 
 
56 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 
 
 Apparitions of the Living 1 . — AMother appears. — " Steer to the Nor'-west." — 
 Different Hypotheses examined. — Apparitions in Dreams. — The Debt of 
 Three- and-ton pence. — Extract from the Methodist Magazine. — Spirits cor- 
 recting War Eeports. — A Father appears to his Son. — Physical Phenome- 
 na. — Manifestations through Charles H. Foster. — The Memphis Appeal on 
 the Manifestations. — Horace Greeley's Testimony. — Manifestations at Hig- 
 ginsville, 111. — The Raps and their Work. — A Spirit settles his Estate. — 
 Clairvoyance. — An unknown Sister introduces herself. — Miss Keyser's 
 Manifestations. — Enhancements. — A Sister announces her Death. — Modus 
 Operandi of Spirit Control. — Is it Magnetism ? — The Watch-chain Argu- 
 ment. — Conclusion. 
 
 " There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual 
 body." (1 Cor. xv. 44.) 
 
 Thus far in our argument we have developed the 
 fact of the existence of an unseen force independent 
 of any organism. It shows that man has two ele- 
 ments — one called natural, the other spiritual ; one 
 of the earth, the other from heaven. 
 
 APPARITIONS OF THE LIVING. 
 
 Now I will try to demonstrate from actual experi- 
 ences, that there are two bodies. I will first give a 
 few narratives on the phenomena of apparitions of the 
 living, and after I have demonstrated by good wit- 
 nesses that living persons are frequently seen at a 
 distance from their bodies, I will offer such explana- 
 tions as seem pertinent. 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 57 
 
 While I could relate many cases that have come 
 under my immediate notice, I prefer to quote exten- 
 sively from Hon. Robert Dale Owen's books, on ac- 
 count of the well-known reputation of the author, 
 and the care which he has manifested in the investi- 
 gation of the truth of the narratives he relates. 
 
 APPARITION OF MOTHER. 
 
 The following narrative I find in " Footfalls," * pp. 
 343, 344. 
 
 Tins, Mr. Owen tells us, was related to him in 
 person, by the lady who saw the apparition, who is 
 now the wife of a distinguished professor, residing 
 near London. 
 
 " In November of the year 1843, Miss H., a young 
 lady, then between thirteen and fourteen years of age, 
 was on a visit to a family of her acquaintance (Mr. 
 and Mrs. E.), residing at their country seat in Cam- 
 bridgeshire, England. Mrs. E. was taken ill ; and 
 her disease assuming a serious form, she was recom- 
 mended to go to London for medical advice. She did 
 so ; her husband accompanied her ; and they left their 
 guest and their two children, the youngest only ten 
 weeks old, at home. 
 
 " The journey, however, proved unavailing ; the 
 disease increased, and that so rapidly, that after a 
 brief sojourn in the metropolis, the patient could not 
 bear removal. 
 
 " In the mean time the youngest child, little Fan- 
 nie, sickened, and after a brief illness died. They 
 wrote immediately to the father, then attending on 
 
 * Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. J. B. Lippincott 
 & Co., Philadelphia. 
 
58 
 
 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 what lie felt to be the death-bed of his wife ; and he 
 posted down at once. It was on Monday that the 
 infant died ; on Tuesday Mr. E. arrived, made ar- 
 rangements for the funeral, and left on Wednesday to 
 return to his wife, from whom, however, he concealed 
 the death of her infant. 
 
 " On Thursday Miss H. received from him a letter, 
 in which he begged her to go into his study and take 
 from his desk there certain papers which were press- 
 ingly wanted. It was in this study that the body of 
 the infant lay in its coffin ; and, as the young lady 
 proceeded thither to execute the commission, one 
 of the servants said to her, 4 O, miss, are you not 
 afraid?' She replied that there was nothing to be 
 afraid of, and entered the study, where she found the 
 papers required. As she turned, before leaving the 
 room, to look at the babe, she saw, reclining on a 
 sofa near to it, the figure of a lady whom she recog- 
 nized as the mother. Having from infancy been ac- 
 customed to the occasional sight of apparitions, she 
 was not alarmed, but approached the sofa to satisfy 
 herself that it was the appearance of her friend. 
 Standing within three or four feet of the figure for 
 several minutes, she assured herself of its identity. 
 It did not speak, but, raising one arm, it first pointed 
 to the body of the infant, and then signed upward. 
 Soon afterward, and before it disappeared, the young 
 lady left the room. 
 
 " This was a few minutes after four o'clock in the 
 afternoon. Miss H. particularly noticed the time, as 
 she heard the clock strike the hour a little before she 
 entered the study. 
 
 " The next day she received from Mr. E. a letter, 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTUEE LIFE. 59 
 
 informing her that his wife had died the preceding 
 day (Thursday), at half past four. And when, a few 
 days later, that gentleman himself arrived, he stated 
 that Mrs. E.'s mind had evidently wandered before 
 her death ; for, but a little time previous to that event, 
 seeming to revive as from a swoon, she had asked her 
 husband . 6 why he had not told her that her baby 
 was in heaven.' When he replied evasively, still 
 wishing to conceal from her the fact of her child's 
 death, lest the shock might hasten her own, she said 
 to him, ' It is useless to deny it, Samuel, for I have 
 just been home, and have seen her in her little coffin. 
 Except for your sake I am glad she is gone to a bet- 
 ter world.' Very shortly after this she expired." 
 
 There are some coincidences connected with this 
 that are not always to be found in marvelous stories 
 of the kind. Miss H. could possibly have been de- 
 ceived, and Mrs. E. might have been dreaming, or 
 under a temporary derangement of the mind ; yet it 
 is hardly probable that Mrs. E. should have imagined 
 that she should be looking at her babe in the coffin 
 precisely at the time Miss H. imagined she saw her by 
 the coffin, and that Mrs. E. should imagine her babe 
 was dead and in a coffin at that particular time, when 
 she could as easily have imagined anything else con- 
 cerning it. 
 
 " STEEE TO THE NOE'-WEST." 
 
 The following narrative I find on page 333-340, of 
 " Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World." Mr. 
 Owen says that the narrative was communicated to him 
 by Captain J. S. Clarke, of the Julia Hallock, who had 
 it. directly from Mr. Bruce himself. Captain Clarke 
 
60 THE HEKEAFTEE. 
 
 assured Mr. Owen that " Bruce was as truthful and 
 straightforward a man as ever he met in his life." 
 They were as intimate as brothers, and had been to- 
 gether in the same vessel for about seventeen months. 
 Mr. Bruce " always spoke of the circumstance in 
 terms of reverence, as of an incident that seemed to 
 bring him nearer to God and another Avorld." "I'll 
 stake my life on it," said he, " that he told me no lie." 
 
 Mr. Robert Bruce, originally descended from some 
 branch of the Scottish family of that name, was born 
 in humble circumstances about the close of the last 
 century, at Torbay, in the south of England, and 
 there bred up to a seafaring life. When about thirty 
 years of age (in the year 1828), he was first mate on 
 board a bark trading between Liverpool and St. 
 John, N. B. 
 
 On one of her voyages, bound westward, being then 
 some five or six weeks out, and having neared the 
 eastern portion of the Banks of Newfoundland, the 
 captain and mate had been on deck at noon, taking 
 an observation of the sun, after which they both de- 
 scended to calculate their day's work. 
 
 The cabin, a small one, was immediately at the stern 
 of the vessel, and the short stairway descending to it 
 ran athwart-ships. Immediately opposite to this stair- 
 way, just be} r ond a small, square landing, was the 
 mate's state-room, and from that landing there were 
 two doors close to each other, the one opening aft 
 into the cabin, the other fronting the stairway into 
 the state-room. The desk in the state-room was in 
 the forward part of it, close to the door, so that any 
 one sitting at it and looking over his shoulder could 
 see into the cabin. 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 61 
 
 The mate, absorbed in his calculation, which did 
 not result as he expected, varying considerably from 
 the dead-reckoning, had not noticed the captain's 
 motions. When he had completed his calculations, 
 he called out, without looking round, — 
 
 " I make our latitude and longitude so and so. Can 
 that be right ? How is yours, sir ? " 
 
 Receiving no reply, he .repeated his question, glan- 
 cing over his shoulder, and perceiving, as he thought, 
 the captain busy writing on his slate. Still no an- 
 swer. Thereupon he rose, and, as he fronted the 
 cabin door, the figure he had mistaken for the captain 
 raised its head, and disclosed to the astonished mate 
 the features of an entire stranger. 
 
 Bruce was no coward, but, as he met that fixed 
 gaze looking directly at him in grave silence, and be- 
 came assured that it was no one whom he had ever 
 seen before, it was too much for him, and, instead of 
 stopping to question the seeming intruder, he rushed 
 upon deck in such evident alarm that it instantly at- 
 tracted the captain's attention. 
 
 " Why, Mr. Bruce," said the latter, " what in the 
 world is the matter with you ? " 
 
 " The matter, sir ? Who is that at your desk ? " 
 
 " No one that I know of." 
 
 " But there is, sir ; there's a stranger there." 
 
 " A stranger ! Why, man, you must be dreaming. 
 You must have seen the steward there, or the second 
 mate. Who else would venture down without orders ? " 
 
 " But, sir, he was sitting in your arm-chair, front- 
 ing the door, writing on your slate. Then he looked 
 up full in my face, and if ever I saw a man plainly 
 and distinctly in this world I saw him." 
 
62 THE HEKEAFTEE. 
 
 "Him! Whom?" 
 
 " Heaven knows, sir ; I don't. I saw a man, and a 
 man I had never seen in my life before." 
 
 ^ You must be going crazy, Mr. Bruce. A stranger, 
 and we nearly six weeks out ? " 
 
 " I know, sir ; but then I saw him." 
 
 " Go down and see who it is." 
 
 Bruce hesitated. "I never was a believer in 
 ghosts," he said, " but if the truth must be told, sir, 
 I'd rather not face it alone." 
 
 " Come, come, man. Go down at once, and don't 
 make a fool of yourself before the crew." 
 
 " I hope you've always found me willing to do 
 what's reasonable," Bruce replied, changing color; 
 " but if it's all the same to you, sir, I'd rather we 
 should both go down together." 
 
 The captain descended the stairs, and the mate fol- 
 lowed him. Nobody in the cabin ! They examined 
 the state-rooms. Not a soul could be found. 
 
 " Well, Mr. Bruce," said the captain, " did not I 
 tell you you had been dreaming ? " 
 
 " It's all very well to say so, sir ; but if I didn't 
 see that man writing on your slate, may I never see 
 my home and family again." 
 
 " Ah, writing on the slate ! Then it should be 
 there still." And the captain took it up. " By 
 Heaven ! " he exclaimed, " there's something, sure 
 enough ! Is that your writing, Mr. Bruce ? " 
 
 The mate took the slate, and there, in plain, legible 
 characters, stood the words, " Steer to the nor'- 
 west." 
 
 " Have you been trifling with me, sir ? " added the 
 captain, in a stern manner. 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OE A FUTURE LIFE. 63 
 
 " On my word as a man and a sailor, sir," replied 
 Bruce, " I know no more of this matter than you do. 
 I have told you the exact truth." 
 
 The captain sat down at his desk, the slate before 
 him, in deep thought. At last, turning the slate over, 
 and pushing it toward Bruce, he said, — 
 
 " Write down, ; Steer to the nor'-ivest? ' 
 
 The mate complied ; and the captain, after narrow- 
 ly comparing the two handwritings, said, — 
 
 "Mr. Bruce, go- and tell the second mate to come 
 down here." 
 
 He came ; and, at the captain's request, he also 
 wrote the same words. So did the steward. So, in 
 succession, did every man of the crew who could 
 write at all. But not one of the various hands re- 
 sembled, in any degree, the mysterious writing. 
 
 When the crew retired, the captain sat deep in 
 thought. 
 
 " Could any one have been stowed away? " at last 
 he said. " The ship must be searched, and if I don't 
 find the fellow, he must be a good hand at hide-and- 
 seek. Order up all hands." 
 
 Every nook and corner of the vessel from stem to stern 
 was thoroughly searched, and that with all the eagerness 
 of excited curiosity, for the report had gone out that 
 a stranger had shown himself on board ; but not a 
 living soul beyond the crew and the officers was 
 found. 
 
 Returning to the cabin after their fruitless search, 
 " Mr. Bruce," said the captain, " what the deuce do 
 you make of all this? " 
 
 " Can't tell, sir. J saw the man write ; you see the 
 writing. There must be something in it." 
 
64 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 " Well, it would seem so. We have the wind free, 
 and I have a great mind to keep her away, and see 
 what will come of it." 
 
 " 1 surely would, sir, if I were in your place. It's 
 only a few hours lost at the worst." 
 
 " Well, we'll see. Go on deck, and give the course 
 nor'-west. And, Mr. Bruce," he added, as the mate 
 rose to go, " have a lookout aloft, and let it be a hand 
 you can depend on." 
 
 His orders were obeyed. About three o'clock the 
 lookout reported an iceberg nearly ahead, and shortly 
 after, what he thought was a vessel of some kind, 
 close to it. 
 
 As they approached, the captain's glass disclosed 
 the fact that it was a dismantled ship, apparently 
 frozen to the ice, and with a great many human be- 
 ings on it. Shortly after they hove to, and sent out 
 the boats to the relief of the sufferers. 
 
 It proved to be a vessel from Quebec, bound to 
 Liverpool, with passengers on board. She had got 
 entangled in the ice, and finally frozen fast, and had 
 passed several weeks in a most critical situation. She 
 was stove, her decks swept — in fact, a mere wreck ; 
 all her provisions and almost all her water gone. Her 
 crew and passengers had lost all hope of being saved, 
 and their gratitude for the unexpected rescue was 
 proportionally great. 
 
 As one of the men who had been brought away in 
 the third boat that had reached the wreck was ascend- 
 ing the ship's side, the mate, catching a glimpse of his 
 face, started back in consternation. It was the very 
 face he had seen three or four hours before looking 
 up at him from the captain's desk ! 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 65 
 
 At first he tried to persuade himself it might be 
 fancy ; but the more he examined the man, the more 
 sure he became that he was right. Not' only the face, 
 but the person and the dress, exactly corresponded. 
 
 As soon as the exhausted crew and famished pas- 
 sengers were cared for, and the hark on her course 
 again, the mate called the captain aside. 
 
 " It seems that was not a ghost I saw to-day, sir ; 
 the man's alive." 
 
 " What do you mean ? Who's alive ? " 
 
 " Why, sir, one of the passengers we have just 
 saved is the man I saw writing on your slate at 
 noon. I would swear to it in a court of justice." 
 
 " Upon my word, Mr. Bruce," replied the captain, 
 " this gets more and more singular. Let us go and 
 see this man." 
 
 They found him in conversation with the xaptain 
 of the rescued ship. They both came forward, and 
 expressed in the warmest terms their gratitude for 
 deliverance from a horrible fate — slow-coming death 
 by exposure and starvation. 
 
 The captain replied that he had but done what he 
 was certain they would have done for him under the 
 same circumstances, and asked them both to step 
 down into the cabin. Then, turning to the passen- 
 ger, he said, — 
 
 " I hope, sir, you will not think I am trifling with 
 you ; but I would be much obliged to you if you 
 would write a few words on this slate." 
 
 And he handed him the slate, with that side up on 
 which the mysterious writing was not. 
 
 " I will do anything you ask," replied the passen- 
 ger ; " but what shall I write ? " 
 5 
 
6Q THE HEREAFTER . 
 
 " A few words are all I want. Suppose you write, 
 4 Steer to the nor > -we%t.' > " 
 
 The passenger, evidently puzzled to make out the 
 motive for such a request, complied, however, with a 
 smile. The captain took up the slate, and examined 
 it closely ; then, stepping aside so as to conceal the 
 slate from the passenger, he turned it over, and gave 
 it to him with the other side up. 
 
 " You say that is your handwriting ? " said he. 
 
 " I need not say so," rejoined the other, looking at 
 it, " for you saw me write it." 
 
 "And this?" said the captain, turning the slate 
 over. 
 
 The man looked first at one writing, then at the 
 other, quite confounded. At last, — 
 
 "What is the meaning of this ? " said he. "I 
 only wrote one of these. Who wrote the other ? " 
 
 " That's more than I can tell you, sir. My mate 
 here says you wrote it, sitting at this desk, at noon 
 to-day." 
 
 The captain of the wreck and the passenger looked 
 at each other, exchanging glances of intelligence and 
 surprise, and the former asked the latter, — 
 
 " Did you dream that you wrote on this slate ? 
 
 " No, sir, not that I remember." 
 
 " You speak of dreaming," said the captain of the 
 bark. " What was this gentleman about at noon to- 
 day?" 
 
 " Captain," rejoined the other (the captain of the 
 wreck), " the whole thing is most mysterious and ex- 
 traordinary, and I had intended to speak to you about 
 it as soon as we got a little quiet. This gentleman," 
 — pointing to the passenger, — " being much exhaust- 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 67 
 
 ed, fell into a heavy sleep, or what seemed such, some 
 time before noon. After an hour or more, he awoke, 
 and said to me, 4 Captain, we shall be relieved this 
 very day.' When I asked him what reason he had 
 for saying so, he replied that he had dreamed that he 
 was on board a bark, and that she was coming to our 
 rescue. He described her appearance and rig, and, to 
 our utter astonishment, when your vessel hove in 
 sight, she corresponded exactly to his description of 
 her. We had not put much faith in what he said ; 
 yet still we hoped there might be something in it, for 
 drowning men, you know, will catch at straws. As 
 it has turned out, I can not doubt that it was all ar- 
 ranged, in some incomprehensible way, by an over- 
 ruling Providence, so that we might be saved. To 
 him be all thanks for his goodness to us." 
 
 " There is not a doubt," rejoined the captain of the 
 bark, " that the writing on the slate, let it have come 
 there as it may, saved all your lives. I was steering 
 at the time considerably south of west, and I altered 
 my course for nor'-west, and had a lookout aloft, to 
 see what would come of it. But you say," he added, 
 turning to the passenger, " that you did not dream of 
 writing on a slate." 
 
 " No, sir. I have no recollection whatever of doing 
 so. I got the impression that the bark I saw in my 
 dream was coming to rescue us ; but how that impres- 
 sion came I can not tell. There is another very 
 strange thing about it," he added. " Everything 
 here on board seems to me quite familiar ; yet I am 
 very sure I never was in your vessel before. It is all 
 a puzzle to me. What did your mate see ? " 
 
 Thereupon Mr. Bruce related to them all the cir- 
 
68 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 cumstances above detailed. The conclusion they 
 finally arrived at was, that it was a special interposition 
 of Providence to save them from what seemed a hope- 
 less fate. 
 
 Here are two coincidental circumstances combining 
 to demonstrate the fact that a spirit had temporarily 
 left the body. In the first place the gentleman had 
 passed into a trance-like sleep, in which he somehow 
 received an idea that deliverance was at hand. It is 
 true that he could not remember the particulars of his 
 dream ; but when he came out of it he had a vague 
 idea that in some way he had received intelligence 
 that a vessel was coming to their relief. But admit 
 that this is "all a dream," and that it was a happy 
 coincidence that the vessel had just happened to come 
 as he expected it, and that everything on board seemed 
 familiar, as if he had before been there, then there is 
 another side of the story to be presented. A man who 
 is in no way superstitious, in daylight, when he should 
 least expect to see an extraordinary occurrence, looks 
 over his shoulder to call the attention of the captain 
 to what seemed to him to be a mistake in his calcula- 
 tions, and, instead of the captain, he beholds an entire 
 stranger. The dream may have been a dream ; but 
 how comes it at precisely the same hour the counter- 
 part of the dream is seen by another individual ? Let 
 us endeavor to account for this on the principle of 
 mind-reading. Now, if it had been that Mr. Bruce had 
 imagined he heard a voice at the time he saw the ap- 
 parition, telling him to steer to the nor'-west, it would 
 be possible to admit this as an hypothesis, but in no 
 other way. But then we have the writing left on the 
 slate, after the disappearance of the apparition. No 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OE A FUTURE LIFE. G9 
 
 one on shipboard could imitate the writing ; but it was 
 an exact fac-simile of the handwriting of the gentle- 
 man who dreamed of the rescue. In order to make 
 the case clearer, allow me, in a few words, to remove 
 the alibi. The gentleman is on land in one of our 
 large cities ; he is seen by a clerk in a certain store, 
 sitting at a desk, apparently writing. The clerk leaves 
 the room, and on his return finds an order with his 
 name attached to it, " Let John Doe have a bill of 
 goods on my account." John Doe comes in shortly 
 after and gets the goods. The gentleman returns, 
 and tells some one that he has been " up in town." 
 Would he have any means of contesting that order ? 
 Would there be any doubts in the case, inasmuch 
 as he had reported his absence from his place of busi- 
 ness at that hour, and that he had been seen by anoth- 
 er individual at another place, and an order had been 
 found there in his own handwriting, with his own 
 name attached, that he was the author of the contents 
 of the order ? The case reported above, with the ex- 
 ception of the alibi of the body, is precisely similar. 
 
 If there was no other evidence of a future life only 
 this, it would be enough ; for if the spirit can live in- 
 dependent of the body one hour, it may for a longer 
 time. This establishes the truth that we had reached 
 in another direction before — that the spirit is superior 
 to the body, and only uses the body for the manifesta- 
 tion of itself to the outward senses. 
 
 The spirit frequently — perhaps more frequently 
 than we imagine — leaves the body for a time, and 
 then returns again. If the rapport is complete, the 
 brain will constantly receive the impression of its ex- 
 periences, and thus they are remembered the next 
 
70 THE HEBE AFTER. 
 
 morning ; otherwise they are not. There is a mag- 
 netic chord, during this whole phenomenon, between 
 the spirit and the body it controls, which enables them, 
 and even compels them, to return to their bodies again. 
 I am of the opinion that people go into the spirit 
 world more frequently than is generally known or 
 observed, and return again ; but, not holding control 
 of the physical organism during that time, they can 
 not bring to their minds what has occurred to them 
 in their dreams. They have a vague, indefinite idea 
 of something that crossed their minds during the night, 
 but they have no means of telling what it is. 
 
 How often has it been observed that the aged sire 
 or long-loved mother has retired to their bed at night 
 well and hearty, but in the morning they were not found 
 in their place ! A first, second, and third summons 
 failed to bring them. The door is opened, and there, 
 straightened on the bed, with hands folded across the 
 breast, ready for the " winding-sheet," is the form of 
 the long-revered one. The spirit has gone ; only the 
 lifeless form remains. Perhaps in its peregrinations in 
 the world some kind angel has severed the magnetic 
 chord which cabled it to the body, and it is no longer 
 compelled to come back to earth. Possibly it was at- 
 tracted far away into the spirit land, and the tension 
 was too great. At any rate death came none too soon. 
 Like a shock of corn fully ripe, the aged one has 
 been gathered in, and the augel-reapers have with 
 joy shouted their harvest-home. 
 
 APPARITIONS OF THE DEAD. 
 
 Another evidence of the immortality of the soul 
 may be derived from the apparitions of the dead. The 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTUPE LIFE. 71 
 
 following case will be found in " Footfalls," pp. 402, 
 403. It was communicated by the Rev. Charles 
 McKay, a Catholic priest, in a letter by him to the 
 Countess of Shrewsbury, dated Perth, October 21, 
 1842. It was communicated by the earl to Edward 
 Binn, M. D., who published it in a work entitled 
 " The Anatomy of Sleep." Dr. Binn says, " Perhaps 
 there is not a better authentic case on record." The 
 following is the extract Mr. Owen has made from the 
 letter : — 
 
 THE DEBT OF THPEE-AND-TENPENCE. 
 
 " In July, 1838, I left Edinburgh to take charge of 
 Perthshire missions. On my arrival in Perth, the 
 principal station, I was called upon by a Presbyterian 
 woman, — Anne Simpson by name, — who for more 
 than a week had been in the utmost anxiety to see a 
 priest. On asking her what she wanted with me, she 
 answered, — 
 
 " ' O, sir, I have been terribly troubled for several 
 nights by a person appearing to me during the night.' 
 
 " 4 Are you a Catholic, my good woman ? ' 
 
 " 4 No, "Sir ; I am a Presbyterian.' 
 
 " ' Why, then, do you come to me ? I am a Catho- 
 lic priest.' 
 
 " c But, sir, she ' (meaning the person that had ap- 
 peared to her) c desired me to go to the priest ; and I 
 have been inquiring for a priest during the last week.' 
 
 " c Why did she wish you to go to the priest ? ' 
 
 " ' She said she owed a sum of money, and the priest 
 would pay it.' 
 
 " ' What was the sum of money she owed ? ' 
 
 " 4 Three-and-tenpence, sir.' 
 
72 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 " ; To whom did she owe it ? ' 
 
 " ' I do not know, sir.' 
 
 " ' Are you sure you have not been dreaming ? ' 
 
 " ' O, God forgive you ! for she appears to me every 
 night. I can get no rest.' 
 
 " 4 Did you know the woman you say appears to 
 you ? ' 
 
 " ' I was poorly lodged, sir, near the barracks, and 
 I often saw and spoke to her as she went in and out 
 to the barracks ; and she called herself Maloy.' 
 
 " I made inquiry, and found that a woman of that 
 name had died who had acted as washerwoman, and 
 followed the regiment. Following up the inquiry, I 
 found a grocer with whom she had dealt, and on ask- 
 ing him if a person, a female, named Maloy, owed him 
 anything, he turned to his books, and told me she 
 did owe him three-and-tenpence. I paid the sum. 
 The grocer knew nothing of her death, nor, indeed, 
 of her character, but that she was attached to the 
 barracks. Subsequently the Presbyterian woman 
 came to me, saying that she was no more troubled." 
 
 WONDERFUL APPARITION. * 
 
 The following, copied from a number of the " Meth- 
 odist Magazine " of 1818, will be considered quite sat- 
 isfactory. 
 
 "To the Editor of the Methodist Magazine. 
 
 " Sir : At the Sheffield Conference of 1817, when 
 examining the young men in the public congregation, 
 I was greatly surprised by the extraordinary declara- 
 tion of one of the preachers. The effect his narrative 
 produced upon the audience induced me to request 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 73 
 
 him to commit to paper what he had so distinctly de- 
 tailed. As it contains a well-authenticated account 
 of what infidelity has affected to deny, and many well- 
 informed Christians receive with suspicion and doubt, 
 your insertion of his letter to me will at least afford 
 some further evidence on a question which is of such 
 high interest and importance to the world. 
 
 " J. Gaulter. 
 
 "Rochester, Feb. 4, 1818." 
 
 " Sheffield, 8th Aug., 1817. 
 
 "Mr. President. Hon. Sir: According g) your 
 desire, I take up my pen to give you the particulars 
 of a solemn fact, which was the first grand means of 
 leading my mind seriously to think of those solemn 
 realities, death, judgment, and eternity. 
 
 " A sister being married to a gentleman in the army, 
 we Teceived intelligence that the regiment to which 
 he belonged had orders for one of the Spanish Isles 
 (Minorca). One night, sixteen years back, about ten 
 o'clock, as his wife,, his child, an elder sister, and my- 
 self were sitting in a back room, the shutters were 
 closed, bolted, and barred, the yard door locked, when 
 suddenly a light shone through the window, the shut- 
 ters, and bars, and illumined the room we sat in. We 
 looked, started, and beheld the spirit of a murdered 
 brother ! His eye was fixed on his wife and child al- 
 ternately. He waved his hand, smiled, continued 
 about half a minute, then vanished from bur sight. 
 The moment before the spirit disappeared, my sister 
 cried, ' He's dead, he's dead ! ' and fainted away. Her 
 little boy ran to his father's spirit, and wept because 
 it would not stay. A short time after this we received 
 a letter from the colonel of the regiment, sealed with 
 
74 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 black, the dark emblem of mortality, bearing the dole- 
 ful but expected news, that on such anight (the same 
 we saw his spirit) my brother-in-law was found wel- 
 tering in his blood (in returning from the mess-room). 
 The spark of life was not quite out. The last wish 
 he was heard to breathe was, to see his wife and child. 
 It was granted him in a certain sense ; for the very 
 hour he died in the Island of Minorca, that same hour, 
 according to the very little difference of clocks, his 
 spirit appeared to his wife, his child, an elder sister, 
 and myself, in Doncaster. Before this event, sir, 
 though a boy of nine years, I was a complete atheist. 
 By this solemn circumstance I was convinced of the 
 reality of another world's existence, and by the solemn 
 impression that it made upon my mind I was led to 
 pray for mercy, found it at the foot of the cross, 
 and now feel the Holy Spirit preparing my soul to en- 
 ter those eternal and invisible regions, the land of 
 spirits. I am, sir, yours obediently, 
 
 " Thos. Savage. 
 
 "P. S. My sister, from the night she saw the spirit 
 of her husband, mourned him as dead, nor could my 
 father prevent it by any argument. He endeavored 
 to persuade us we were all deceived ; yet he acknowl- 
 edged the testimony which the child gave staggered him. 
 But when the letter arrived from the colonel of the regi- 
 ment, with the awful tidings, he was struck dumb. My 
 two sisters are yet living, and can testify to the truth of 
 this account, and at least one hundred persons beside 
 our own family can prove our mentioning the hour the 
 spirit appeared several weeks before we received the 
 melancholy letter, and that the letter mentioned the 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE* OF A FUTURE LIFE. 75 
 
 hour and night he died, as the same in which we be- 
 held his spirit. T. S." 
 
 This needs no comment. Another interesting nar- 
 rative occurs on pp. 409-413 of the same book. Mr. 
 Owen obtained it directly from the parties them 
 selves. 
 
 A DATE IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT OF GREAT BRIT- 
 AIN CORRECTED BY A SPIRIT. 
 
 " In the month of September, 1857, Captain G. 
 W., of the Sixth (Ineskilling) Dragoons, went out to 
 India, to join his regiment. 
 
 " His wife remained in England, residing at Cam- 
 bridge. On the night between the 14th and 15th of 
 November, 1857, toward morning, she dreamed that 
 she saw her husband, looking anxious and ill, upon 
 which she immediately awoke, much agitated. It 
 was bright moonlight, and, looking up, she perceived 
 the same figure standing by her bedside. He ap- 
 peared in his uniform, the hands pressed across the 
 breast, the hair dishevelled, the face very pale. His 
 large, dark eyes were fixed full upon her ; their ex- 
 pression was that of great excitement, and there was 
 a peculiar contraction of the mouth, habitual to him 
 when agitated. She saw him, to each minute partic- 
 ular of his dress, as distinctly as she had ever done in 
 her life 4 and she remembers to have noticed between 
 the hands the white of the shirt-bosom, unstained, 
 however, with blood. The figure seemed to bend for- 
 ward, as if in pain, and to make an effort to speak ; 
 but there was no sound. It remained visible, the 
 wife thinks, as long as a minute, and then disap- 
 peared. 
 
76 . THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 " Her first idea was to ascertain if she was actually 
 awake. She rubbed her eyes with the sheet, and felt 
 that the touch was real. Her little nephew was in 
 bed with her. She bent over the sleeping child, and 
 listened to its breathing ; the sound was distinct, and 
 she became convinced that what she had seen was no 
 dream. It need hardly be added that she did not 
 again go to sleep that night. 
 
 " Next morning she related all this to her mother, 
 expressing her conviction, though she had noticed no 
 marks of blood on his dress, that Captain W. wag 
 either killed or grievously wounded. She was so fully 
 impressed with the reality of that apparition that she 
 thenceforth refused all invitations. . . . 
 
 It was on a Tuesday, in the month of December, 
 1857, that the telegram regarding the actual fate of 
 Captain W. was published in London. It was to the 
 effect that he was killed before Lucknow, on the 
 fifteenth of November. 
 
 " This news, given in the morning paper, attract- 
 ed the attention of Mr. Wilkinson, a London solicitor, 
 who had in charge Captain W/s affairs. When at a 
 later period this gentleman met the widow, she in- 
 formed him that she had been quite prepared for the 
 melancholy news, but that she was sure her husband 
 could not have been killed on the 15th of November, 
 inasmuch as it was during the night between the 
 14th and 15th that he appeared to herself." 
 
 Shortly after this Mr. Wilkinson " was visiting 
 with a friend, whose lady has all her life had percep- 
 tions of apparitions. She is what is usually called an 
 impressible medium — a fact which is known, how- 
 ever, only to their intimate friends. Though person- 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTUEE LIFE. 7 I 
 
 ally acquainted with them, I am not at liberty to 
 give their names. Let us call them Mr. and Mrs. N. 
 
 " Mr. Wilkinson related to them, as a wonderful 
 circumstance, the vision of the captain's widow, in 
 connection with his death, and described the figure 
 as it had appeared to her. Mrs. N., turning to her 
 husband, instantly said, ' That must be the very per- 
 son I saw the evening we were talking of India, and 
 you drew an elephant with a houclah on his back. 
 Mr. Wilkinson has described his exact position and 
 appearance — the uniform of a British officer, his 
 hands pressed across his breast, his form bent for- 
 ward as if in pain. The figure,' she added to Mr. 
 Wilkinson, ; appeared just behind my husband, and 
 seemed looking over his left shoulder.' 
 
 " c Did you attempt to obtain any communication 
 from him ? ' Mr. Wilkinson asked. 
 
 " c Yes ; we procured one through the medium of 
 my husband.' 
 
 " ' Do you remember its purport ? ' 
 
 " t It was to the. effect that he had been killed, in 
 India, that afternoon, by a wound in the breast ; and 
 adding, as I distinctly remember, " That thing I go 
 about in is not buried yet." I particularly marked 
 the expression.' 
 
 " ' When did this happen ? ' 
 
 " ' About nine o'clock in the evening, several 
 weeks ago ; but I do not recollect the exact date.' 
 
 " She then called to mind a bill she had paid that 
 evening, which was receipted. The receipt, when 
 found, bore date of the fourteenth of November. Two 
 official dispatches had stated he had been killed on 
 the fifteenth of November ; but in the month of March 
 
78 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 of the next year a private letter was received stating 
 that Captain W. had been killed on the fourteenth of 
 November, and not on the fifteenth, as reported in 
 Sir Colin Campbell's dispatches. It was more than a 
 year after this when the war office made the correc- 
 tion. The date of his death, as found cut on the 
 board at the head of his grave, was found to be the 
 fourteenth of November." 
 
 Here, again, we have a series of coincidences all 
 manifesting intelligence. 1. The lady saw her hus- 
 band between the 14th and 15th of November. 2. On 
 the same night he was also seen by another la'dy, and 
 personated by a gentleman : all agreed that he seemed 
 to be hurt in the breast. The gentleman's hand 
 wrote that he had been killed, in India, by a wound 
 in the breast. But Sir Colin Campbell's dispatches 
 intimated he had been killed the day after the 14th. 
 Afterward, however, the war department discovered 
 the mistake, and sustained the testimony of the spirit. 
 The grave-mark also bears date of the 14th of No- 
 vember. 
 
 I have one more case to present of the appearance 
 of a gentleman immediately after his death. It is 
 found in Owen's " Debatable Land,"* pp. 557, 458. 
 
 - " New York, June 10, 1862. 
 
 " In compliance with the request in your note, I 
 here give the special facts connected with the appari- 
 tion of my father. 
 
 " It was on the 13th of December, 1847, as I was 
 walking, with my two eldest sons, in Grand Street, 
 
 * Debatable Land between this World and the Next, by R. D. 
 Owen. G. W. Carleton & Co., New York. 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTUBE LIFE. 79 
 
 New York. It was in the forenoon, before twelve 
 o'clock, and the sidewalk was full of people. There 
 the whole figure of my father suddenly appeared to me. 
 He was in his usual dress, his well-remembered cap on 
 his head, his pipe in his hand, and he gazed on me 
 with an earnest look ; then as suddenly disappeared. 
 
 " I was very much terrified, and immediately wrote 
 home, relating what had happened. Some time after- 
 ward I received a letter from one of my brothers, 
 written from Neukirchen, Rhenish Prussia, the family 
 residence, informing me that on the morning of the 
 13th of December our father had died there. At 
 breakfast on that day he was in his usual health, and 
 had been speaking of me with great anxiety. After 
 breakfast he passed out into the yard, and, in return- 
 ing, he dropped dead, overtaken by a sudden fit of 
 apoplexy. 
 
 " I learned afterward that at the moment of 
 death he wore the very dress in which I had seen 
 him ; the same cap on his head, the pipe in his hand. 
 
 " Yours, 
 
 " F. Steins. 
 
 "To Brodhurst Schiefelin, Esq." 
 
 This case, coming from a respectable source, will 
 hardly be questioned. Rev. Mr. Steins is indorsed by 
 Mr. Brodhurst Schiefelin, of the well-known firm of 
 Schiefelin & Co., New York. The whole controversy 
 might be staked upon any one of these narratives 
 without any risk, for if one person lives after the 
 death of the body, so do all others. The reader will 
 excuse me from a waste of words in comments on the 
 foregoing narratives, for the point is carried beyond 
 the necessity of any further argument. 
 
80 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 I will now offer a few thoughts on Physical Mani- 
 festations. Something claiming to be a spirit power 
 lifts tables, pianos, chairs, and other articles of furni- 
 ture. It may not he the spirits of our friends — possi- 
 bly they are lying spirits — or it is possible they do 
 not tell the truth in pretending to give the names 
 they bore on earth; that does not militate against the 
 idea that it is done by spirits. The question, and the 
 only question that can be asked, is, "Are these physi- 
 cal manifestations produced by seen or unseen agen- 
 cies?" and it is a question easily enough answered. 
 But the only answer that can be given is that " there 
 is an unseen force operating somewhere, that pro- 
 duces these manifestations ; but whenever we get into 
 the unseen, we are in the realm of spirit. During 
 this writing I am in the city of Memphis. About 
 three weeks since 
 
 CHARLES H. FOSTER 
 
 was here, and many of the citizens went to see him, 
 and, with one exception, — Rev. J. R. Graves, D. D., 
 — all expressed themselves satisfied. Names and ini- 
 tials of names were written on his arm by an invis- 
 ible scribe ; also writings came on paper held under 
 the table. Our city papers sent their reporters to in- 
 vestigate and report what occurred. Below I give 
 the result of a seance, as reported by a representative 
 of the Memphis Appeal. I prefer giving from this 
 paper,- because it has taken no pains to conceal its 
 aversion to Spiritualism. These manifestations were 
 not altogether of a physical order, but I can not put 
 their record in a better place. 
 
 Test No. 1. — One of the gentlemen wrote the 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 81 
 
 name of a female child, who died several years since, 
 at eight years old, and wrote this question : " Do you 
 wish to send a message to your mother ? " Mr. Fos- 
 ter described, as appearing before and near the writer 
 of the question, a little girl with happy, smiling face, 
 with a beautiful wreath around her, and a crown 
 on. her head, waving her hand joyously, and said, 
 
 " She says her name is " (giving the exact 
 
 name), and added, "She says, Yes; she wishes to 
 send a message to her mother." He then proceeded 
 to write a beautiful message, and handed it to the 
 writer of the question. 
 
 No. 2. — The same person had written the name of 
 a distinguished and well-known officer of the late Con- 
 federate army, and added this question: "Do you 
 wish to communicate with me or your family? " 
 
 Mr. Foster at once took up his pencil and wrote a 
 long message to the widow of the person whose name 
 was written, and it was signed exactly as the deceased 
 signed his name. 
 
 No. 3. — Another name was given by Mr. Foster 
 to the same gentleman, entirely accurate, who said 
 he was killed at — — , which was the fact. 
 
 No. 4. — Another gentleman had written the name 
 of his mother on a paper, but omitted any question. 
 Mr. Foster said she was present, and handed to the 
 gentleman a long communication, giving the name 
 of his father and sister, also dead, the latter of whom 
 had died forty years since, and the signature was cor- 
 rect both as to Christian and surname. 
 
 No. 5. — -He also described to the gentleman, and 
 gave the correct name of, a relative of his wife, 
 6 
 
82 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 who is dead, whose name this gentleman had writ- 
 ten at his wife's request. 
 
 No. 6. — Another one of the party received a note, 
 before visiting Mr. Foster, from a friend, telling him 
 
 to write the name of — , who was murdered about 
 
 eighteen years since, at , and whose murderer 
 
 had never been identified. Mr. Foster gave the full 
 name of the murdered man, stated when and where 
 he was murdered ; but the spirit, or agency, declined 
 to give the name of the murderer. 
 
 No. 7. — Mr. Foster announced the presence of the 
 spirit of a gentleman who had visited Europe with 
 one of our party in 1864, giving the full name accu- 
 rately. The person to whom he addressed himself 
 wrote this question : " Have you met any of my rela- 
 tives ? " The answer was, "Yes; several." The 
 next request was, "Name them." At once the an- 
 swer came, " ," which was the exact 
 
 name of a deceased sister. 
 
 No. 8. — Another spirit was announced, and name 
 given accurately, who said he died at a certain time 
 from a fall, which the writer of the question said 
 was correct. He also gave to this gentleman the 
 names of half a dozen dead friends, with certain par- 
 ticulars to identify them, which were all pronounced 
 correct. 
 
 No. 9. — To another gentleman he gave an auto- 
 graph signature of a deceased friend, which the ques- 
 tioner pronounced a very good facsimile of the hand- 
 writing of the deceased. But one mistake was made 
 that I now remember, and that was of a soldier giving 
 the name of the battle in which he was killed ; one 
 of the gentlemen present said he had given it wrong. 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTUBE LIFE. 83 
 
 The papers were so rolled up that Mr. Foster could 
 not see what was written on them ; in fact, the greater 
 number of the answers were given without his han- 
 dling the papers at all, and several of the gentlemen 
 brought their questions already written into the 
 room. 
 
 I have no words to throw away in answer to the 
 charge of mind-reading, as I have already demon- 
 strated that even that power takes us into the realm 
 of spirit. 
 
 I have no time now to lay before the reader the 
 vast amount of evidence of the wonderful manifesta- 
 tions occurring in the presence of the Moravia medi- 
 ums, Mrs. Hollis, of Louisville, Ky., Dr. Henry Slacle, 
 of New York, and hundreds of others in whose pres- 
 ence spirit forms are seen, voices are heard, writing is 
 produced without the aid of visible hands., etc., etc. 
 A reference to almost any of the daily papers will 
 convince the thinking skeptic that there is at least 
 some evidence that there are things in heaven and 
 earth of which his philosophy can not even dream. 
 
 Horace Greeley, in his " Recollections of a Busy 
 Life," under the heading of "Glamour," says, "I 
 have sat, with three others, around a small table, with 
 every one of our eight hands lying plainly, palpably 
 on that table, and heard rapid writing with a pencil 
 on paper, which, perfectly white, we had just pre- 
 viously placed under that table ; and have, the next 
 minute, picked up that paper with a sensible, straight- 
 forward message of twenty to fifty words fairly writ- 
 ten»thereon. I do not say by whom, or by what, said 
 message was written ; yet I am quite confident that 
 
84 THE HEEE AFTER. 
 
 none of the persons present, who were visible to mor- 
 tal eyes, wrote it." 
 
 He does not tell us who did the writing, but he 
 leaves no escape from the inference that it was writ- 
 ten by spirits. 
 
 I have been in a quandary as to whether I should 
 tax the patience of my readers with a history of mani- 
 festations of which I myself was a witness. I finally 
 yield to the impulse to present at least an abridged 
 statement of the 
 
 HIGGINSVILLE MANIFESTATIONS. 
 
 During the spring of 1871 I received a number of 
 letters from Morgan Reese, Esq., of Higginsville, 111., 
 inviting me to come to that place, and witness the 
 manifestations in the presence of his daughters. Be- 
 ing compelled to go through Danville, 111., twelve 
 miles south of Higginsville, in June of that year, I 
 yielded to his wishes, and went to the place. The 
 result of that visit was written up for the Crucible, 
 a paper with which I was connected in Baltimore, 
 Maryland. 
 
 " The readers of the Crucible have already heard 
 somewhat of the astonishing manifestations of this 
 place, but we confess 4 the half had not been told.' 
 We went there very doubtful, and told them that 
 we wanted them to do their best, as we wished it for 
 the benefit of the public. The mediums were two 
 daughters of Mr. Morgan Reese, Ardilla and Eliza- 
 beth, and William Stump. We had been there but a 
 short time when we heard a voice somewhere, -•— it 
 seemed just beyond, and yet it was near, — a voice 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTUHE LIEE. 85 
 
 which sounded somewhat like the voice of a whip-poor- 
 will, which we could understand with great difficulty, 
 and yet it seemed easy for the mediums to understand 
 every word. The voice purported to come from a 
 spirit, and threatened, whether in a joke or not they 
 hardly seemed to understand, to i draw blood.' This 
 threat has been made so often, and the butcher-knife 
 has been thrown so dangerously near the mediums, 
 that the family, fearing that the spirit may be in ear- 
 nest about the matter, have locked it up in a drawer, 
 where they seem to think it is beyond his reach. In 
 answer to our inquiries, the spirit said his name was 
 John Richeson ; that he had murdered his wife over 
 thirty years ago, and had been hung in Covington, 
 Ind. He says he is in hell, and we had hard work to 
 convince him that he might progress out of the dark- 
 ness which then surrounded him. 
 
 " We remained there the whole day, and talked 
 with the spirits constantly. One of the mediums 
 played on a jewsharp, when it seemed that a full set 
 were out on the floor dancing, keeping perfect time 
 with the music. All this was in broad daylight, with 
 all the doors open, and the dancing might have been 
 heard several rods from the house. 
 
 " While the spirits were talking, objects were con- 
 stantly flying about the house, kitchen, and even yard 
 — objects of every description, such as the hammer, a 
 saucer, knives, an ear of corn, an iron bar, an ax, and 
 an old chair flying across the yard, and other objects 
 too numerous to mention. At one time, Avhen objects 
 were flying about the house in a most lively manner, 
 a cat, which was about half way across the kitchen, 
 between the room and kitchen doors, was picked up 
 
86 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 by an unseen hand, and thrown so hard against the 
 open door as to glance off into the yard, about six feet 
 from the kitchen.* The cat raised her tail and the 
 hair on her back, and looked back, first on one side, 
 then on the other, to see who had been facilitating her 
 locomotion, while the spirit and the spectators were 
 all enjoying a hearty laugh over the matter (for the 
 spirit often laughs when he throws objects so near as 
 to frighten persons). Doubtless her feline worship 
 was looking which way to run in order to evade the 
 danger. 
 
 " We returned in the evening, after the lecture, 
 when the room was made dark, and we never experi- 
 enced anything so terrific in our life. While the 
 spirit is repeating his threats to 4 draw blood,' they 
 are hammering away as if they would batter the 
 house down ; objects are thrown all about the house, 
 on the floor, to the great danger of our heads, and the 
 severe detriment of our shins. In the midst of this 
 din and confusion, heavy steps are heard, a scuffling 
 ensues, the mediums are calling for lights ; but before 
 we can strike our matches, they are thrown heavily 
 against the side of the house. This was such a dread 
 reality that it was with difficulty that the mediums 
 could be persuaded to allow the light extinguished 
 
 * " I did not see the cat thrown against the door, as my mind at 
 that moment was called in another direction. The act caused an 
 expression of surprise and laughter, which called my attention to 
 the cat, as she stood with her fur raised in the yard. In answer to 
 my inquiry, ' What is the matter with the cat?' I was told that she 
 had been tossed against the door. With this explanation, I can tes- 
 tify upon my oath to all that I have said." 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 87 
 
 " Our brother, J. B. Hull, had been an unbeliever 
 in spiritual manifestations till he went to one of their 
 dark circles. There he was convinced, and he showed 
 us the arguments that convinced him, on his shins. 
 Nothing can induce him to sit again, as he has evi- 
 dence of that kind enough to satisfy him as long as he 
 lives, and does not wish to trouble the spirits with 
 any more doubts. 
 
 " One of the neighborhood boys, wishing to weaken 
 the evidences of Spiritualism, undertook to get up 
 some counterfeit manifestations one night ; but they 
 had scarcely commenced when Eicheson, who sees as 
 well in the dark as in the light, reported him by 
 name, and told that he ' made that,' and threatened, 
 if he did so again, ' he would break every bone in his 
 body.' As no one had any doubt of his ability to do 
 it, they were more careful after that." 
 
 THE RAPS 
 
 are sometimes denominated the a, b, c of Spiritualism ; 
 and yet there are hundreds of persons in every part 
 of Europe and America who have, when all other 
 evidence has failed, been convinced of immortality, or 
 at least of a life beyond the grave, by the raps. It 
 would not be out of place to here state that, although 
 it has been twenty-five years since the raps were first 
 heard at Hyclesville, N. Y., there has never, up to this 
 time, been any explanation of them, other than that 
 given by the raps themselves. That they are per- 
 formed by some unseen agency, no well informed per- 
 son can doubt. Communications received through 
 the raps, if true, may justly be regarded as tests 
 given under very difficult circumstances, as the letters 
 
88 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 of the alphabet must often be called, and the raps 
 must be produced at precisely the time the proper 
 letter is called. The following test case is taken from 
 "Debatable Land," pages 397-401: — 
 
 A SPIRIT SETTLES HIS BUSINESS. 
 
 " Mrs. G., who was residing in a village near the city 
 of Cincinnati, had overcome her aversion to Spiritual- 
 ism enough to tolerate her curiosity in investigating 
 the subject. During her stay in the village, she had 
 a visit from a lady friend (Mrs. L. B.), who was a 
 medium. One day, after she had had a sitting with 
 Mrs. B., she remained in the room for a while alone, 
 when she discovered that, by barely touching the 
 table, it would move after her across the floor. After 
 a few sittings, it would move in her presence without 
 being touched. In the next sitting with Mrs. B., the 
 name c Jack ' was spelled out. This was a brother 
 of her husband's, who had been dead about six 
 months. Jack was asked if he wished anything done 
 for him. The reply was, c Give Anna that ring.' 
 
 " Now Anna was the name of a young lady to whom, 
 at the time of his death, the brother was betrothed. 
 Mrs. G. did not know what ring was meant ^ but she 
 remembered, when Jack died, a plain gold ring — the 
 only one he wore — had been presented by her husband 
 to a friend of his brother, a Mr. G. She asked if that 
 was the ring, and the reply was in the affirmative. 
 
 " Some days after this, Jack's mother paid them a 
 visit. Nothing was said to her of the above commu- 
 nication. In the course of the conversation she told 
 them that Miss Anna M. had called upon her ; had 
 stated that she had given to Jack, at the time of her 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 89 
 
 betrothal, a plain gold ring, and that she wished to have 
 it again. Mrs. G. and her husband were both igno- 
 rant that the ring in question had been Miss M.'s ; 
 Jack never had said anything to them on the subject. 
 Measures were taken to have the ring returned. 
 
 " Some time after Jack's death three persons, G., 
 C, and S., came severally to Captain G., and told 
 him that his brother had died indebted to them. He 
 requested them to send in their bills in writing. 
 Meanwhile, not knowing anything of debts due by 
 his brother to these individuals, Captain G. asked 
 Mrs. G. to have a session, hoping to obtain some 
 information on the subject. The following was the 
 result : — 
 
 " Jack announced himself, and his brother asked, — 
 
 " ' Did you owe G. at the time of your death ? ' 
 
 "'Yes.' 
 
 " ' How much ? ' 
 
 " ' Thirty-five dollars.' 
 
 " ' Were you indebted to C. ? ' 
 
 " 'Yes.' 
 
 " ' How much ? ' 
 
 " ' Fifty dollars.' 
 
 "' And how much to S.?' 
 
 " ' Nothing.' 
 
 " ' But S. says he has a bill against you.' 
 
 " ' It is not just. I did borrow of him forty dollars, 
 but I gave him fifty dollars. He repaid me seven 
 only, and still owes me three.' 
 
 " G.'s bill, when afterward presented, was for 
 thirty-five dollars, and C.'s for fifty. S. handed in a 
 bill for forty dollars, when Captain G. said, on its pre- 
 sentation, that he had repaid him fifty. S. became 
 
90 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 confused, and said lie ' thought that was intended for 
 a gift to his (S.'s) sister.' 
 
 " Captain G. afterward asked, through the table, 
 4 Jack, do you owe any one else ? ' 
 
 "' Yes ; John Gr., for a pair of boots, ten dollars.' 
 
 (" Neither Captain nor Mrs. G. knew anything about 
 this debt.) 
 
 " ' Does any one owe you ? ' 
 
 " 4 Yes ; C. G. owes me fifty dollars.' 
 
 " Captain G. applied to C. G., asking him whether 
 he had been indebted to his brother Jack. 
 
 44 ' Yes,' he replied ; ( fifteen dollars.' 
 
 444 But he lent you fifty dollars.' • 
 
 " ' That is true ; but I repaid him all but fifteen 
 dollars.' 
 
 " 4 You have receipts, I suppose ? ' 
 
 " G. C. promised to look for them ; but afterward 
 came and paid the fifty dollars. 
 
 " Finally, Captain G. called on Mr. G., the shoe- 
 maker, who had sent in no bill. Wishing to make 
 the test as complete as possible, lie said, — 
 
 '"Dol owe you a bill, Mr. G. ? ' 
 
 " 4 No, sir. You have paid for all you have had 
 of me.' 
 
 44 Captain G. turned, as if to go, whereupon the 
 shoemaker added, — 
 
 " 4 But your brother, Mr. Jack, who died, left a 
 small account unpaid.' 
 
 444 What was it for?' 
 
 44 4 A pair of boots.' 
 
 44 4 And your charge for them ? ' 
 
 44 4 Ten dollars.' 
 
 44 4 Mr. Gr., there is your money.' " 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 91 
 
 I do not think any one will attempt to explain this, 
 either upon the principle of the " unconscious action 
 of the brain," or "mind-reading." Anna probably 
 would have got her ring, for she asked for it. But 
 S. would have claimed an unjust bill, and probably 
 collected it, whilst C. G. would have said nothing 
 about his bill that he owed Jack, or if he had, he only 
 would have paid fifteen dollars. This one instance, 
 if we had no other, if not explained upon the hypothe- 
 sis of spirit intercourse, would go unexplained. 
 
 CLAIRVOYANCE. 
 
 All kinds of spirit manifestations are, to some ex- 
 tent, connected with clairvoyance, so that we can not 
 well refer to any particular phenomena disconnected 
 with clairvoyance. The case I am about to relate is 
 such, that I shall entitle it 
 
 A MISTAKE CORRECTED BY A SPIRIT. 
 
 Mr. Owen, in the " Debatable Land," pp. 401-403, 
 relates a case of clairvoyance of a gentleman (Dr. H.), 
 who saw three individuals enter Dr. Bellows's church 
 one Sunday morning, during the service. He instant- 
 ly recognized two of them as being his wife and mother, 
 who were deceased. But the third one was a beautiful 
 young girl whom he had never seen, who had her arm 
 around the mother, which suggested the relationship of 
 daughter. The doctor failed to recognize the features 
 of the stranger, as they did not seem to resemble in any 
 way those of his sister Anna, who had died in childhood 
 thirty-nine years before. Before they vanished, the doc- 
 tor had ample time to notice every feature of the three 
 apparitions, and to observe the manner and style of 
 
92 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 the dress of each one. The wife and stranger first 
 faded from sight, and lastly the mother disappeared. 
 
 With the impression that the third figure was that 
 of his sister Anna, the next day he called upon one of 
 the Fox sisters, when the raps indicated that the 
 young lady's name was Elizabeth. As Dr. H. could 
 not recollect any of his deceased relatives by that 
 name, he was in doubt who it could be, when the raps 
 indicated that Elizabeth was his sister. The doctor 
 replied, — 
 
 " That's a mistake. I never had a sister called 
 Elizabeth. I did lose a sister by death, but her name 
 was called Anna. Do you mean to say that the fig- 
 ure I saw with its arm around my mother was my 
 sister ? ' ' 
 
 "Yes." 
 
 " And her name was Elizabeth? " 
 
 "Yes." (Very loud.) 
 
 " Well, it isn't so : that's all I can say." 
 
 This was answered by three still louder raps. 
 
 The family Bible, in which were recorded the births 
 and deaths of Dr. H.'s relatives, was with his step- 
 mother, seventy miles away. Happening in the 
 nighborhood some weeks after, he called upon his 
 stepmother, and opened the Bible, where he found re- 
 corded the birth of a daughter Elizabeth, in 1826, who 
 died only a few weeks after. 
 
 " This event occurred," says Mr. Owen, " during a 
 five years' absence from his father's house, and though 
 it may have been mentioned in one of his father's let- 
 ters, he has not the slightest recollection that he ever 
 received such intelligence, or that he ever heard of 
 the birth or death of this infant alluded to by any of 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 93 
 
 the family. A life so very brief usually passes away 
 without leaving a trace, except in the secret depths of 
 a mother's memory in the heart." 
 
 There is, perhaps, no better clairvoyant in the world 
 than Miss Lizzie Keyser, of Covington, Ky. It was 
 my privilege to attend one of her seances, held in the 
 Masonic Hall, at Indianapolis, on the evening of June 
 18, 1871. As I took a phonographic report for The 
 Crucible, I will give an extract from it as it was pub- 
 lished in that paper. 
 
 MISS LIZZIE KEYSER 'S SEANCE. 
 
 " By the gentleman through here, sitting with the 
 thick-set lady, I see a spirit who has been in spirit-life 
 three or four years, not so tall as the gentleman is. 
 His hair is light brown. He gives his name as Benja- 
 min Keyes. The gentleman replied, ' I recognize the 
 spirit : was he shot ? ' 
 
 " Miss Keyser. ' He says he was.' 
 
 "By this old gentleman sitting on the front seat, I 
 see a young man about twenty-five years old ; medi- 
 um height, dark hair, dark-gray eyes, pale face : was 
 murdered by his brother. 
 
 " Gentleman. ' I know him very well.' 
 
 "By a gentleman sitting over there, I see the spirit 
 of an old lady, of medium height, rather slender, light- 
 brown hair, partially gray, dark or hazel eyes, I don't 
 just know which. She gives me the name of Martha 
 Mendenhall. 
 
 " The gentleman answered, ' My mother.' 
 
 " By an old gentleman back in the audience (point- 
 ing him out) I see a spirit, who tells me ' the old gen- 
 tleman is blind.' The spirit is about fifty years of 
 
94 THE HEEEAETER. 
 
 age, with dark-brown hair, was an intimate friend of 
 the gentleman, and gives me the name of Dr. Parry. 
 (Not recognized.) 
 
 " Near where those two old gentlemen are sitting 
 together, by the second man on the seat, there comes 
 two spirits, the first is the spirit of a gentleman who 
 has been in spirit-life between five and six years, of 
 medium height, stout built, full face, about thirty- 
 eight years of age, and gives the name of George Bee- 
 ler. (Not recognized by the old gentleman, but rec- 
 ognized by one in the audience.) The second one is 
 the spirit of an old gentleman, who tells me that years 
 ago he was acquainted with the second gentleman on 
 the seat, and he gives the name of Joseph Williams. 
 He lived in the town where this gentleman resides. 
 (Recognized.) 
 
 " A beautiful lady stands over there, who has been 
 in spirit life about six years ; medium height, brown 
 hair, large gray eyes, and she says she passed away 
 in Washington city. She gives me the name of Rosa- 
 mond Hovey ; says her maiden name was Smith. 
 
 " The spirit of a little boy, fair complexion, light 
 eyes and hair, lays his head on the lady's shoulder on 
 the second seat where that gentleman and lady are 
 sitting, and gives his last name as Spence. (Recog- 
 nized as the son of Dr. and Mrs. Spence, of Terre 
 Haute, Ind.) 
 
 " A spirit, or two spirits, — one is the spirit of a young 
 man, about twenty-five years of age when he passed 
 away ; been in spirit life about five years ; very tall, 
 — about six feet I should think, — hair dark and 
 long. And there is an old lady who has been in spirit 
 life several years ; dark eyes, dark-brown hair. Her 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 95 
 
 name is given as Caroline Sype. The gentleman's 
 name is Robert Pratt. (Both recognized.) 
 
 " By that gentleman back in the audience (describ- 
 ing the place), I see the spirit of an old gentleman, 
 medium height, his hair was gray, high cheek bones, 
 and he gives the name of John Gregg. (Recognized.) 
 
 " Through here, by a gentleman with a linen coat 
 on, I see the spirit of a middle-aged lady, who has 
 been in spirit-life between three and four months. 
 Pale, medium height, brown hair, dark eyes, and is a 
 relative of the gentleman. She says to him, ' I will 
 try to be honest now. It is all right. I was stubborn. 
 I did not want to own it. Now I know it.' She gives 
 the name of Purcell. (Recognized.) 
 
 " Here in front I see the spirit of a very large gen- 
 tleman, who has been in spirit life about eighteen or 
 twenty years, is connected with the lady by marriage ; 
 light eyes, dark hair, and gives the name of Thomas 
 Pope. (Not clearly recognized. ) 
 
 " By the lady with a black hat on, sitting right in 
 front of a little girl, I see the spirit of a man of medi- 
 um height ; dark eyes, dark-brown hair, thin face, 
 and seems to know the lady. I get the name of 
 Wm. Whitcomb. (Not recognized by the lady, but 
 recognized in the audience.) The spirit says, 4 It is 
 so strange your mother does not know me.' (This 
 was said to the gentleman who had recognized the 
 spirit. The lady then recognized him.) 
 
 " The spirit of a lady about fifty-two years of age 
 when she passed away. Her hair is partially gray, 
 and her eyes are blue. She gives the name of Martha 
 Hurburt. (Recognized.) 
 
 " The spirit of an old gentleman comes in the garb 
 
96 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 of a Quaker ; been in spirit life but a short time ; 
 about sixy-five years of age when he passed away ; 
 rather thick-set, high forehead, and thin whiskers, 
 and gives the name of William Bell. (Not recog- 
 nized.) 
 
 " In the centre of the aisle are two Federal gen- 
 erals. They have friends here. One is of medium 
 height, dark hair, eyes, and complexion, and gives the 
 name of General Rosseau. The other is- a younger 
 man, heavy-set, broad shouldered, and gives the name 
 of McPherson. (Both were recognized.) 
 
 " By you, sir (pointing to the Reporter), is the 
 spirit of a man, about forty-five years of age when he 
 passed away ; hair turned gray ; an uncle on your 
 mother's side. He gives the name of Daniel Drake. 
 (My mother's uncle, with whom I was well ac- 
 quainted when a boy.) 
 
 " There, by the gentleman near the centre of the 
 hall (pointing out the position), I see the spirits of 
 two children. They are both small, and claim the 
 gentleman as their father. Ida says, ' Father, Dan 
 will stick to his promise ; you know what I mean.' 
 (The gentleman replied, 4 I do.') 
 
 " There is a spirit here who has been determined 
 to be described. He says, ' There are those here who 
 know me, and know how I passed away.' Tall, rather 
 even built, dark hair and eyes, and gives the name oi 
 Ed. Moody. (Recognized.) He says, c I would to 
 God I had known before I came here what I know 
 now, and that I had left that accursed liquor alone. 
 Those I left on earth suffer, but not what I do.' 
 
 " 1 see a spirit that will only give his first name ; 
 tall, about five feet eleven inches ; narrow across the 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTURE LIFE. 97 
 
 chest, light hair and whiskers. His first name is John. 
 (Recognized by the friend with whom he was stand- 
 ing.) 
 
 "I see the spirit of a Quaker lady that has been in 
 spirit life some years ; medium height, inclined to 
 stoop ; hair rather gray, light eyes, and a relative of 
 the gentleman by whom she is standing. She gives 
 the name of Hannah Carter. (Last name recog- 
 nized.) " 
 
 Let me now pass without comment on the above to 
 
 THE TRANCE. 
 
 The explanation of the trance I shall give after I 
 have quoted a narrative. I should be glad to quote 
 many cases related in the same works, but the limits 
 to which I wish to confine myself preclude the possi- 
 bility. Many cases have come under my own obser- 
 vation, but Mr. Owen's extensive reputation will give 
 his narratives more weight than any I could relate as 
 having fallen under my observation. 
 
 A SISTER SUPPOSED TO BE LIVING ANNOUNCES HER 
 OWN DEATH. 
 
 The following case I abridge from the " Debatable 
 Land": — 
 
 "A Mrs. L., of the town of R.,in Massachusetts, 
 had a dream one night in the month of November, 
 1853, in which she saw her sister Esther, who was 
 then dwelling in California, approach her bedside, 
 and ask her to accompany her (the sister) to Cali- 
 fornia. Mrs. L. at first objected ; but, upon the sis- 
 ter's solicitation, who told her that they would ' soon 
 be there,' and she should 'return before morning,' 
 7 
 
98 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 she started. Giving her hand to her sister, she seemed 
 to float over a vast space, and then descend very near 
 a humble place, which the sister announced was her 
 dwelling. The sisters entered, and Mrs. L. recognized 
 her brother-in-law, sad, and in a mourning garment. 
 The sister led her into the center of another room, 
 where stood an open coffin, and pointed to her own 
 body within it, pale in death. Mrs. L. gazed alter- 
 nately at the body and the living form before her. To 
 the silent query which her wonder expressed, the sis- 
 ter replied, — 
 
 " Yes, sister, that body was mine. But disease as- 
 sailed it. I was taken with cholera, and I have passed 
 to another world. I desired to show you this, that 
 you might be prepared for the news that will soon 
 reach you." 
 
 After this Mrs. L. seemed to return in the same 
 manner she had gone there. She awakened, and told 
 her husband of her dream, and the fearful revelations 
 it seemed to portend. He quieted her by the usual 
 way of referring to the foolishness of dreams. 
 
 Upon the evening of the same day, Mr. and Mrs. L., 
 with a younger sister, Anne, who was living with 
 them, were enjoying a quiet game of whist. It came 
 Anne's turn to deal, and when the cards were handed 
 to her, her arm suddenly assumed a rotary motion, 
 and the cards flew in every direction. Mrs. L. turned 
 to chide her for what she thought to be a foolish jest, 
 when she beheld her eyes fixed upon her with a sol- 
 emn yet affectionate anxiety, when she cried out, — 
 
 " O, Anne, what is the matter ? Why do you 
 look so ? " 
 
 " Call me not Anne," was the reply. "I am Es- 
 ther." 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OP A FUTUPE LIFE. 99 
 
 "Anne!" 
 
 " I tell you it is Esther who speaks to you, not 
 Anne." 
 
 " Her mind is gone ! " cried Mrs. L. to her husband. 
 " She is mad ! O, that such a misfortune should ever 
 have fallen on our family ! " 
 
 " Your dream, Cecilia ! your dream of last night ! 
 Have you forgotten whither I took you, and what you 
 saw ? " 
 
 " The shock was too much for Mrs. L.," says the 
 narrative ; " she fainted." The sister remained en- 
 tranced for nearly four hours, and when she awakened, 
 she supposed she had been asleep, and seemed to have 
 no recollection that she had been made the medium 
 through whose organism her own sister's death had 
 been announced. 
 
 It turned out that in four weeks after this the mails 
 confirmed the vision of Mrs. L., and the trance control 
 of her sister, by stating that she had died of the chol- 
 era on the day preceding the dream. 
 
 A word or two with reference to 
 
 THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONTROL, 
 
 and I will leave this part of the subject. I have al- 
 ready explained how J^our own spirits control your 
 organizations. You will understand by this time that 
 your spirit is in magnetic rapport with your brain. 
 When I show you how one individual may magnet- 
 ize another, and make him speak the magnetizer's 
 thoughts, I think I demonstrated that one man may 
 think through another's brain. Now if this magneti- 
 zer should die to-night, to-morrow he may come back, 
 magnetize his subject, as he did to-day, and, thinking 
 
100 THE HEREAFTEE. 
 
 through his brain, that subject would speak his 
 thoughts. Then he would be said to be entranced or 
 under control. Magnetism is only the ladder that 
 Jacob saw reaching up to heaven, adown which came 
 the angels with their words of cheer to the children 
 of earth. 
 
 We are sometimes told that these manifestations are 
 all produced by magnetism ! True : but do our inform- 
 ers know that if there comes intelligence through the 
 instrumentality of this magnetism, it is because there 
 is an intelligent communicator at the other end of the 
 wire ? Who ever thinks of stopping to quibble over 
 a telegram ? Yet we could as easily explain a dispatch 
 away, and say it was electricity, as to explain a dis- 
 patch from the other world upon the principle of mag- 
 netism. 
 
 A gentleman once asked me how a physical manifes- 
 tation was produced. I answered him by saying, — 
 
 " Sir, I perceive you are a physical medium, though 
 you are not aware of it. If you will hold my watch 
 so that the chain hangs pendent, I will illustrate the 
 matter to you." 
 
 After he had taken the watch, I said, — 
 
 " Now I have no physical magnetism of my own, — 
 I mean the quality of magnetism necessary to produce 
 physical manifestations, — so I shall be compelled to 
 make a draft on you. Now I have thoroughly impreg- 
 nated that chain with your magnetism, so that I can 
 not move the magnetism in the neighborhood of the 
 chain without moving the chain. Now I move my 
 finger east and west, because I can more easily draw 
 your magnetism after my finger than I can move it 
 with my will power alone, although it is under the 
 
PHENOMENAL EVIDENCE OF A FUTUKE LIFE. 101 
 
 control of my will ; and as I move my finger, the chain 
 moves in the same direction. Now I change my mo- 
 tion to the north and sonth, and the chain changes its 
 motion to correspond. When I die, I can come back 
 as a spirit and do the same thing." 
 
 The reader will see by the argument I made in the 
 first chapter, that the control of our bodies is a physi- 
 cal manifestation of our spirits. But in this case the 
 brain acts as a great lever, while the nerves appear to 
 be the fulcrum. In physical manifestations there is a 
 necessity for a kind of magnetism out of which a lever 
 and fulcrum may be improvised. Hence the magnet- 
 ism is more material around that class of individuals, 
 and more easily seen ; therefore apparitions of physi- 
 cal mediums are more common than of any other class 
 of persons. 
 
102 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 
 
 Why the Author goes to the Bible. — Materialistic Bible Writers. — Many of 
 them did not believe in a Future Existence. — Job on the Witness Stand. — 
 Job's Redeemer and the Worms. — Testimony of David. — His Character. — 
 Solomon's Testimony and Character. — The Prophets. — New Testament Ev- 
 idences. — A Change. — The Carnal and the Spiritual Man. — War between 
 the Flesh and Spirit. — Does the dead Body arise? — Examination of partic- 
 ular Texts. — Resurrection out of the Dead. — Jesus and Nicodemus. — Spirit 
 of Jesus raised. — Paul's Houses. — Desire to depart. — Who are the Demons ? 
 — Holy Ghost, what is it.' — Pentecostal Manifestations explained. — En- 
 hancements. — Balaam, Peter, Paul, John. — Chips of the old Block. 
 
 " For we know that if our earthly house of this 
 tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, 
 an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 
 (2 Cor. v. 1.) 
 
 11 Shall man alone, 
 Imperial man, be sown in barren ground, 
 Less privileged than grain on which he feeds ? 
 Is man, in whom alone is power to prize 
 The bliss of being, or with previous pain 
 Deplore its period, by the spleen of fate 
 Severely doomed, death's single unredeemed?" 
 
 Young. 
 
 Thus far I have endeavored to adduce arguments 
 from nature and science. I now propose to spend a 
 little time in the Bible ; not that it will be any better 
 demonstrated coming from that source, but to meet 
 the objections thrown in against this view by a class 
 of materialists who found their objections on that 
 book. 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 103 
 
 There are people in the world who would find it as 
 easy to believe that Jonah swallowed the whale, as 
 that the whale swallowed Jonah, if the Bible only 
 said so. Going on the principle that nothing is im- 
 possible with God, they are ready to believe that he 
 could, should he choose to do so, crowd three hundred 
 and sixty-five days into the time of one hour. Such 
 people must have their Bible harmonize with their 
 theory, or they will reject the theory, no matter how 
 conclusive the evidence. All the facts I quoted in 
 the last chapter will not avail ; for if they are once 
 convinced that facts are against their theory, supported 
 by the Bible, they are ready, with the enthusiastic 
 Frenchman, to say, "So much the worse for the 
 facts ! r ' 
 
 I am not undertaking to show that every Bible 
 writer supported the doctrine of immortality ; for some 
 of them — and I shall deal with them first — were 
 
 GROSSLY MATERIALISTIC. 
 
 Take, for illustration, Moses, who believed that the 
 dead were conscious, but carefully excluded it from 
 the Israelites, lest they should fall into the sin of nec- 
 romancy, which, considering it would draw custom 
 away from his brethren the Levites, was a great sin. 
 Aaron and his sons would get no more heifers, kids, 
 goats, lambs, sheep, doves, pigeons, &c, to kill; and 
 their God would not get a chance to snuff roast animals ; 
 for, be it understood, that although it was claimed that 
 these things were cooked for the Lord, to keep him good- 
 natured, he never got anything more than the smell of 
 them. The priests performed all the masticating offices, 
 and kindly relieved their Deity of all forebodings of 
 nightmare caused by an overloaded stomach. 
 
104 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 Notwithstanding, Moses must have known that the 
 dead were conscious, or he would not have forbidden 
 intercourse with them. There would be little need 
 of forbidding this intercourse with the dead if such 
 intercourse is an impossibility. 
 
 From Adam to David we find very little said about 
 a future life of any kind. Indeed, I can not call to 
 mind a single passage previous to the Babylonish cap- 
 tivity which speaks of any hereafter whatever, either 
 as a reward or a punishment for our actions in this life. 
 The grave was a deep, dark abyss, in which all hopes 
 were buried with the corpse. 
 
 Pious materialists have seized on these doubts, thus 
 expressed by these persons, and used them to prove 
 their negative positions, while they have reached in 
 every direction for such passages as they could com- 
 promise to make out a resurrection of the body. I 
 propose now to look at some of these passages, and 
 show that the authors of them meant to teach that 
 
 THEEE NEVER "WILL BE A FUTURE LIFE. 
 
 I will examine the book of Job first. But before 
 commencing the examination, I will inform the reader 
 that only part of the book is actually the language of 
 Job. Elihu was a believer in Spiritualism, as evinced 
 in the introduction to his remarks, commencing in Job 
 xxxii. The other two companions seem to be doubt- 
 ful characters, who put everything in the hands of a 
 "mysterious Providence," and did not pry into mat- 
 ters much. But Job was an outspoken materialist, 
 and an honest one, too. In chapter vii., verse 9, he 
 is represented as saying, " As the cloud is consumed 
 and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave 
 shall come up no more." 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 105 
 
 This text merely shows what Job's views of the 
 future were. The following is another which is often 
 used to demonstrate that the dead are unconscious. 
 
 " For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, 
 that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch 
 thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax 
 old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the 
 ground: yet through the scent of water it will bud, 
 and bring forth boughs like a plant. But man dieth, 
 and wasteth away : yea, man giveth up the ghost, and 
 where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, and 
 the flood decayeth and clrieth up : so man lieth down 
 and riseth not : till the heavens be no more, they shall 
 not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." (Job 
 xiv. 7-12.) . 
 
 Here all hope is taken away, for if men are not to 
 live again till " the heavens be no more," "the hope 
 of man is destroyed; " and if, as Peter says, " the heav- 
 ens and the earth which are now, are reserved unto 
 fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of un- 
 godly men " (2 Pet. iii. 7), this punishment being 
 called the " second death," from which they tell us 
 there is no resurrection (Rev. xx. 14, 15), then 
 Job could hardly expect a life in the future at any 
 time. The expression, " till the heavens be no more," 
 was certainly intended to be very emphatic. The 
 next passage expresses Job's utter hopelessness of any 
 hereafter. He says, — 
 
 u O,that thou wouldst hide me in the grave, that 
 thou wouldst keep me secret until thy wrath be past, 
 that thou wouldst appoint me a set time and remem- 
 ber me ! " 
 
 This is as much as if he had expressed a wish that 
 
106 THE HEEEAFTEE. 
 
 there might be a future for him, for if this was all 
 there was of life, then Job's life thus far had been a 
 failure. His doubts then assume the form of a ques- 
 tion : " If a man die, shall he live again ? " (Verse 
 14.) He had just said, " There is hope of a tree, if 
 it be cut down, that it will sprout again ; " but now 
 he would ask concerning man. But as none could 
 answer that question satisfactorily, he was compelled 
 to bide his time, and wait for the answer which the 
 future might give. " All the days of my appointed 
 time," says he, " will I wait till my change come. Thou 
 shalt call, and I will answer thee : thou wilt have a de- 
 sire to the work of thine hands." Job evidently sup- 
 posed he would return to the elements out of which he 
 had been created. If the expressions I have read from 
 him do not testify to that, please read the following : — 
 
 "And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, 
 and the rock is removed out of his place. The waters 
 wear the stones : thou Avashest away the things which 
 grow out of the dust of the earth ; and thou destroyest 
 the hope of man. Thou prevailest forever against him, 
 and he passeth : thou changest his countenance, and 
 sendest him away. His sons come to honor, and he 
 knoweth it not ; and they are brought low, but he 
 perceiveth it not of them." (Verses 18-21.) 
 
 Job got the advantage so completely in this argu- 
 ment, that one of the bigoted clergymen became 
 angry with him, and accused him of egotism, " iniqui- 
 ty," " craftiness," being deceived by his own " heart," 
 and then expatiates upon the utter depravity of man, 
 and hints that he belongs to the " congregation of hyp- 
 ocrites," and other such remarks characteristic of the 
 clergy generally. But he was careful to tell Job that 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 107 
 
 he knew nothing that they did not know, and hinted 
 at his presumption to dare to express an opinion be- 
 fore these " gra}~-headed " gentry of the cloth. In 
 short, they attempted to ostracize Job entirely, and 
 make him assent to their theology, and profess a belief 
 in that for which Job wanted the evidence. Job's 
 children were all dead, and he, covered with sores, 
 might never recover. He wanted the evidence of a 
 future life; gave expression to his doubts, and the 
 reason why he doubted. Instead of answering him 
 as they should have done, they appealed to their cleri- 
 cal dignity. No wonder he said " Miserable comfort- 
 ers are ye all " (xvi. 1), when, instead of answering, 
 they abused him. 
 
 " If I wait," he continues, " the grave is mine house ; 
 I have made my bed in darkness. I have said to cor- 
 ruption, Thou art my father ; to the worm, Thou art 
 my mother, and my sister, and where is noiv my hope ? 
 As for my hope, who shall see it ? They shall go down 
 to the bars of the pit, when oar rest is together in the 
 dust." (Job xvii. 13-16.) Could the language of 
 despair be more emphatic? Does not Job use every 
 means at his command to express the utter hopeless- 
 ness of the future ? 
 
 But those who wish to demonstrate that Job be- 
 lieved in a re-living of the old body refer us to Job 
 xix. 23-26. 
 
 " O, that my words were now written ! O, that they 
 were printed in a book! that they were graven with an 
 iron pen and lead in the rock forever ! For I know that 
 my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter 
 day upon the earth : and though after my skin worms 
 destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. " 
 
108 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 It is a characteristic of theologians to make every 
 expression apply to the future that they can. Job 
 had said, in the fourteenth chapter, that he could not 
 be raised until the "heavens (which are to pass away 
 with the earth) are no more." But now the same 
 individuals would have us believe that Job's Redeemer 
 stands upon the earth when there is no earth on which 
 to stand. Is it not much easier to believe that Job 
 was speaking of his final triumph over the disease 
 that was preying upon his flesh? Bildad had just been 
 threatening him with the anger of God. It having 
 been settled by Eliphaz that Job was a very wicked 
 man, Bildad told about the terrible wrath of the Lord. 
 " The light of the wicked shall be put out ; " " the 
 gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall 
 prevail against him ; " " his remembrance shall perish 
 from the earth," &c. Now this was all meant for 
 Job, and he understood it so, or he would not have 
 accused them of "persecuting" him. (Verse 22.) 
 It was but natural that he should get confidence in 
 himself after he had been thus abused, and boast that 
 although worms were eating away his flesh, and it 
 appeared to them that the curse of God was upon 
 him, the time would come when he would get well 
 of this, and his flesh becoming sound, he should see 
 God before he died. The latter day that he talked 
 about was evidently a boast that he should live to be 
 an old man, although they had piously told him lie 
 should not. No doubt they wished differently, for their 
 theology was at stake on what they said about Job. 
 Job happened to be right, for he lived to be an 
 old man, and acknowledged that he saw God, as fol- 
 lows : — 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 109 
 
 " I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear ; 
 but now mine eye seeth thee." (Job xlii. 5.) 
 
 David. There are doubtful expressions in the Psalms 
 of David, and as David was not the author of all the 
 Psalms it is claimed that he sung, it is probable that he 
 sang some the sentiment of which he may not have ac- 
 cepted. That the author of some of the Psalms was a 
 materialist, the following expressions will demonstrate : 
 
 "For in death there is no remembrance of thee : in 
 the grave who shall give thee thanks ? " (Ps. vi. 5.) 
 
 " Wilt thou show wonders to the dead ? shall the 
 dead arise and praise thee ? . . . Shall thy wonders 
 be known in the dark ? and thy righteousness in the 
 land of forgetfulness ? " (Ps. lxxxviii. 10-12.) 
 
 " The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go 
 down into silence." (Ps. cxv. 17.) 
 
 " His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth ; 
 in that very day his thoughts perish." (Ps. cxlvi. 4.) 
 
 David's case was utterly hopeless ; but our materi- 
 alists have nothing of which to boast in their ancient 
 prototype. His character was such that it would have 
 furnished occupation for the law officials of our day, 
 had he not lived too early to elicit their attention. He 
 had four wives and ten concubines, was a thief, 
 murderer, bigamist, and adulterer, and became king 
 through the insurrection of Samuel. (See 1 Sam. 
 xvi. 14-23 ; xviii. 25-2T ; xxviii. 9-12 ; 2 Sam. xi. 
 15 ; 1 Sam. xxii. 2 ; xviii. 27 ; xxv. 39, 43 ; 2 Sam. 
 xi. 4 ; xv. 16 ; 1 Kings i. 2, 3.) 
 
 Solomon is the next materialist who is quoted in 
 proof of their views. I give the quotations below : — 
 
 " Man hath no pre-eminence above a beast. . . . 
 All go unto one place, all are of the dust, and all turn 
 to dust again." (Eccl. iii. 19, 20.) 
 
110 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 "For to him that is joined to all the living there is 
 hope : for a living dog is better than a dead lion. For 
 the living know that they shall die : but the dead 
 know not anything, neither have they any more a 
 reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also 
 their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now 
 perished ; neither have they any more a portion for 
 ever in anything that is done under the sun." (Eccl. 
 ix. 4-6.) 
 
 Was there ever a case of more utter hopelessness ? 
 Never to have a reward in the future, nor a portion 
 in anything that is done under the sun ! In view of 
 this, Solomon felt it was vain to attempt to live a true 
 and noble life ; for no matter how good he should be, 
 there would be "no more a reward ; " hence he pushed 
 blindly ahead into every kind of extravagance. It is 
 said that he had a thousand wives and concubines (1 
 Kings xi. 3) ; but as that was at least five hundred more 
 than was necessary, I think the picture was a little 
 overdrawn. 
 
 The prophets, being necromancers, had a dim idea 
 of a future of some kind, and now and then gave ex- 
 pression to their belief; but often their ideas were 
 clothed in such dubious language, that you can not 
 tell whether they were talking of a resurrection of 
 the body or the spirit; whether they believed that 
 each individual had a spirit which would continue 
 after the death of his body, or only the spirits of the 
 good would live. 
 
 Thus the Sadducees were sure there was no hereaf- 
 ter, and the Pharisees were sure there was ; and as 
 each could sustain his views by the Bible, both were 
 sure they were right. Coming down to New Testa- 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. Ill 
 
 ment times, we find a different light shining on the 
 subject. 
 
 THE SPIRITUAL NATURE OF MAN 
 
 is clearly recognized, not only in the text at the head 
 of this chapter, but in numerous other passages of 
 Scripture. The contrast between the two is clearly 
 drawn in the following : — 
 
 " Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust 
 of the flesh. For the "flesh lusteth against the spirit, 
 and the spirit against the flesh ; and these are contra- 
 ry the one to the other." (Gal. v. 16, 17.) 
 
 The flesh only desires such things as will gratify its 
 appetites or passions, while the spirit demands that 
 which is necessary to its higher development. This 
 was not only the experience of Paul, but of every in- 
 telligent person of the nineteenth century. We all 
 know that we can not gratify our animal appetites 
 and passions extravagantly, without either clogging 
 or weakening the energies of the intellect ; hence 
 this war between the spirit and the flesh. In the 
 passage under consideration Paul takes the existence 
 of the spiritual nature for granted, without attempt- 
 ing to prove it, and as his ipse dixit is the end of au- 
 thority with a large class, I only need to give it as I 
 find it in his writings. 
 
 Paul ever strives to exhibit the difference between 
 the carnal man and the spiritual man. The carnal 
 man is called a babe (1 Cor. hi. 1 ; Heb. v. 13), be- 
 cause he is not able yet to digest spiritual food, — his 
 spirit is yet undeveloped. The carnal mind " is not 
 subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be " 
 (Rom. viii. 7), because, as we have before seen, the 
 
112 THE HEEEAFTEK. 
 
 law of God is the continual development of our intel- 
 lects, and whatever interferes with that is at war with 
 this law. 
 
 This spirit that Paul talks about is the controlling 
 influence about us, aud can not only comprehend to a 
 certain extent intelligences outside of itself, but by a 
 process of introversion it may even take its own 
 measure. Hence, the " spirit of man which is within 
 him " " knoweth the things of a man." (1 Cor. 
 ii. 11.) There are really two men in one, — " a natu- 
 ral body and a spiritual body " (1 Cor. xv. 44), — one 
 dwelling within the other. 
 
 Further evidence of this fact may be found in 1 
 Cor. v. 5, where Paul insists that a disorderly mem- 
 ber should be delivered over to " Satan, for the de- 
 struction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in 
 the day of the Lord Jesus." In all my travels I have 
 not found a materialist who could harmonize that 
 passage with his theoiy. The fact is clear, that Paul 
 considered the spirit as a separate entity, which was 
 being dragged down into deeper darkness by the 
 flesh ; but which could await the destruction of the 
 flesh, and work out its salvation better without it 
 than with it. In passing, it may be well to remark 
 that the word Satan always means an adversary, and 
 it takes very hard twisting to get it to mean the 
 pagan devil, which has become one of the staples of 
 the Orthodox church of to-day. 
 
 I have shown that it is impossible to raise the dead ; 
 I want to show by the Bible that there will be a 
 
 EESUEEECTION OUT OF THE DEAD BODY, 
 
 or a resurrection of the spirit. There are passages 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 113 
 
 which speak of a resurrection of the body, and before 
 I examine the proofs of my own position I will notice 
 some of them. Perhaps the strongest text in favor of 
 this theory is Matt, xxvii. 52, 53. It reads, "And 
 the graves were opened; and many bodies of the 
 saints which slept, arose and came out of the graves 
 after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, 
 and appeared unto many." This is only related by 
 one writer, and he was certainly using metaphorical 
 language, when he told us the " graves were opened," 
 — such as we find in Paul's language, where he tells 
 us that Christ " hath abolished death." But people 
 have been dying ever since Paul made that announce- 
 ment. If death was abolished, it was because Jesus 
 had demonstrated that men's ideas concerning death 
 were incorrect. If the saints appeared % it demon- 
 strated that those who were thought to be in their 
 graves had come out. Let us suppose that the bodies 
 of these saints had come up out of their graves, the 
 query follows what became of them when they disap- 
 peared. Did they go and lay themselves down in their 
 graves, and after they had died again bury themselves ? 
 If this is an awkward question, it is because it is hard 
 to answer ; but they could not have gone to heaven, 
 for Paul says, " flesh and blood can not inherit the 
 kingdom of God." (1 Cor. xv. 50.) 
 
 If the bodies of the saints arose, then it must have 
 been their spirit bodies, such as Paul spoke of in 
 1 Cor. xv. That these spirit bodies do arise and are 
 seen, the foregoing pages fully demonstrate. I will 
 refer to another supposed objection, found in 1 Thess. 
 iv. 14-17, before I pass to notice texts upon the other 
 side of the subject. Aside from the doubtful passage 
 
114 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 in Rev. xx. 12-14, this is probably the strongest pas- 
 sage in the Bible for a literal resurrection. The book 
 of Revelation, it should be remembered, came within 
 one vote of being uninspired, and its mystical lan- 
 guage has suffered the infliction of all kinds of inter- 
 pretations ; and as I can hardly expect to make this 
 dream harmonize with common sense, after so many 
 failures of zealous theologians, I promise to pass it 
 just now. I may have some use for it after a while. 
 
 But to the passage, " For if we believe that Jesus 
 died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in 
 Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto 
 you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive 
 and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not 
 prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord him- 
 self shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the 
 voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God : 
 and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we 
 which are alive and remain, shall be caught up to- 
 gether with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in 
 the air ; and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 
 
 I do not doubt that Jesus arose again, if he ever 
 died, and people generally do die after they have 
 staid here a while. Hence, I believe that any who 
 sleep in him will God bring with him. Neither do I 
 believe that any who were alive at Jesus' coming 
 went before their friends who were asleep. The 
 question might be asked, who did Paul mean by 
 Christ ? Let Paul answer. 
 
 " For as the body is one, and hath many members, 
 and all the members of that one body, being many, are 
 one body, so also is Christ." (1 Cor. xii. 12.) " Now 
 ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 115 
 
 (Ibid. vs. 27.) " So we, being many, are one body in 
 Christ, and every one members one of another." (Rom. 
 xii. 5.) 
 
 Nothing is plainer than that the church has the 
 wrong position on this point. All this talk about 
 being " baptized into Christ " (Rom. vi. 5 ; 1 Cor. 
 xii. 13), being "brought to Christ " (Gal. iii. 24), &c, 
 has reference to a spiritual condition of the church. 
 This I can prove when it is necessary. Now, in order 
 to show this union of the dead in Christ with the " we 
 which are alive," I will once more quote Paul. 
 
 " That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, 
 he might gather together in one all things in Christ, 
 both which are in heaven and which are on earth: 
 even in him." (Eph. i. 10.) 
 
 Here is the union. This was the intention of the 
 establishment of the church, that the " whole family 
 in heaven and earth " might be united (Eph. iii. 15). 
 The dead in Christ will arise first, and we will follow 
 in our spiritual development, and if not before our 
 spiritual resurrection, at least at that time shall 
 we meet them. It will take hard twisting to make 
 a literal resurrection of the body out of this, es- 
 pecially in contradiction to what I shall hereafter 
 quote. 
 
 That there is a spiritual resurrection, I infer from 
 the fact that in a majority of places I find it is a res- 
 urrection out of something, and not of something. To 
 illustrate : in Phil. iii. 11, I read, " If by any means I 
 might attain unto the resurrection of the dead ; " but 
 the Greek of this is, " ex anastasin ton nekron" — " res- 
 urrection out of the dead ; " for ex always signifies 
 out of: it is the word from which we have derived 
 
116 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 our " exodus." As another evidence, please read the 
 following from Luke xx. 85, 36 : — 
 
 " But they which will be accounted worthy to ob- 
 tain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, 
 neither marry nor are given in marriage. Neither can 
 they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels ; 
 and are the children of God, being the children of the 
 resurrection." 
 
 Here the words translated " resurrection from the 
 dead," are " anastasis tees eh neJcron ; " clearly setting 
 forth the idea of an exodus out of the body when it is 
 dead. As further evidence that the author of this 
 language meant to convey the idea herein set forth, 
 read the following verse : — 
 
 " Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed 
 at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of 
 Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Ja- 
 cob. For he is not a God of the dead, but of the 
 living : for all live unto him." 
 
 It will be remembered that the Sadducees deny the 
 resurrection of the dead, and Jesus used this Scrip- 
 ture to demonstrate the reality of the resurrection. 
 Had he been pointing forward to a future resurrec- 
 tion, his argument was illy drawn, besides unfortu- 
 nately expressed. The Pharisees believed that there 
 was a resurrection of the dead — both angels and 
 spirits being raised (see Acts, xxiii. 8), whilst the Sad- 
 ducees denied the theory. Jesus takes sides with the 
 Pharisees on the subject, and argues from what God 
 said to Moses, that the dead are already raised. He 
 does not say that the "dead are to be raised," but 
 " are raised " now. Inasmuch as God is the God 
 pf Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they are living, not 
 
SCEIPTUEAL EVIDENCES. 117 
 
 going to live, " for God is not a God of the dead, but 
 of the living, for all live unto him." 
 
 In Luke xxiv. 46, I discover that Jesus was raised 
 out of the dead, for I find that same Avord eh. In 
 Acts hi. 15 ; iv. 10 ; and xiii. 30, all, speaking of 
 Jesus' resurrection, call it an exodus out of the body, 
 for the same Greek term eh is found every time. 
 
 In John hi. 1-8, Jesus referred to this resurrection, 
 under the title of a new birth. When Nicodemus 
 came to him, and acknowledged his superior gifts, 
 Jesus told him he " must be born again." " Except 
 a man be born again," said Jesus, " he can not see the 
 kingdom of God." Now, as Paul tells us, " flesh and 
 blood can not inherit the kingdom of God " (1 Cor. 
 xv. 50), and Jesus told Nicodemus that unless he was 
 " born again he could not see the kingdom of God," 
 it is evident that this birth is different from that 
 which ushered us into this world. What is it ? This 
 was the question with Nicodemus. Jesus says, " That 
 which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is 
 born of the Spirit is spirit," or " is a spirit," as Saw- 
 yer's translation more properly renders it. Here we 
 get a definite idea of this birth : it is the resurrection 
 of the spirit from the dead ; it is born out of this 
 world into the next, as we were born into this. The 
 next two verses settle this beyond all dispute : 
 " Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born 
 again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou 
 hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence 
 it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that 
 is born of the Spirit." 
 
 The marvel is, how that, in the next birth, we 
 should be like the wind — that we should not be able 
 
118 . THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 to tell whence it came or whither it went. That it 
 was the case, was fully illustrated in the case of Jesus, 
 who, after his death, appeared in a room, the doors 
 being shut (John xx. 19) ; but no one knew whence 
 he came, or how he got into that room ; and when he 
 departed, no one could tell how he got out of the 
 room, or whither he went. 
 
 After a while I shall make a special argument on 
 the apparition of Jesus, to prove that his body did 
 not appear. But I can not pass without bringing up 
 corroborating testimony concerning the resurrection 
 of Jesus' spirit at the death of his body. In 1 Pet. 
 iii. 18-20, we read, " For Christ also hath once suf- 
 fered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might 
 bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but 
 quickened by the Spirit. By which also he went and 
 preached unto the spirits in prison, which some time 
 were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God 
 waited in the days of Noah." 
 
 " The best scholars," says a recent writer, "inform 
 us that a better rendering would be, ' Christ suffered 
 the stroke of death in the flesh, but survived it in the 
 spirit.'" The Greek is, " thanatotheis mean sarki" 
 (absolute dying of the flesh) ; " zo-opoithes de tospneu- 
 mati " (a continuation of the life of the spirit). Lit- 
 erally the flesh died, but the spirit lived. There is 
 no possible way of dodging the force of this expres- 
 sion. The points in this passage are as follows : — 
 
 1. When Jesus' flesh was put to death his spirit 
 was quickened. 
 
 2. He went, after the death of the body, and 
 preached to other disembodied spirits ; and, 
 
 3. These spirits to whom he preached had at some 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 119 
 
 time been disobedient. Remember it was the sinning, 
 and not the preaching, that was done in the days of 
 Noah. The usual way of dodging the force of this 
 passage is to claim that this preaching was done be- 
 fore their death by Jesus or Noah through the influ- 
 ence of this spirit ; that is, it was done in the days 
 of Noah, and they were destroyed, and put in the 
 prison of death to await the judgment day. But 
 these spirits, not their bodies, are in prison. It takes 
 a great deal of straining and compromising to make 
 this passage fit the theory, and then it is only an 
 apology. The words " by which " in the passage 
 make the matter quite definite. It sIioavs that by 
 means of surviving the stroke of death in the spirit 
 he was enabled to preach to spirits in prison. An- 
 other passage, found in the sixth verse of the next 
 chapter, makes the point very definite indeed. It 
 reads, " For, for this cause was the gospel preached 
 also to them that are dead, that they might be judged 
 according to men in the flesh, but live according to 
 God in the spirit." 
 
 But who preached the gospel to the dead ? In the 
 first quotation we find that Jesus preached to the 
 spirits who were disobedient in Noah's day, and here 
 we find the gospel was preached to them that are 
 dead. Those to whom this gospelwas preached are 
 contrasted with those who are alive, " that they might 
 be judged according to men in the flesh." If this 
 gospel was preached to the dead before they died, 
 where is the contrast between them and those who 
 are living ? Those who are living will die some time, 
 and then this difference between them and the rest of 
 the dead will be gone. The intention of this passage 
 
120 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 is to show that those who had never had an opportunity 
 to hear the gospel while living should have that priv- 
 ilege afterward. I have said enough, perhaps, on 
 the resurrection of the spirit, and now I will attempt 
 to show from other parts of the Bible that 
 
 THE SPIRIT SURVIVES THE DEATH OF THE BODY. 
 
 On this part of the subject, I must call attention 
 again to the Scripture at the head of this chapter: 
 " For we know, that if our earthly house of this tab- 
 ernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an 
 house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 
 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed 
 upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be 
 that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For 
 we that are id this tabernacle do groan, being bur- 
 dened : not for that we would be unclothed, but 
 clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up 
 of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the self- 
 same thing, is God, who also hath given unto us the 
 earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always con- 
 fident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the 
 body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by 
 faith, not by sight) : we are confident, I say, and will- 
 ing rather to be absent from the body, and to be pres- 
 ent with the Lord." 
 
 The tabernacle Paul is speaking of here is our nat- 
 ural body. The building of God not made with 
 hands is the spiritual body ; but while we are clothed 
 with our natural bodies, we can not be clothed with 
 our spiritual bodies. One of these bodies is natural, 
 or terrestrial, the other is spiritual, heavenly, or celes- 
 tial. (See 1 Cor. xv. 40.) The natural body is 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 121 
 
 sown, or dies ; the spiritual body is raised. (1 Cor. 
 xv. 44.) This is well argued in the whole of the 
 latter part of 1 Cor. xv. In order to better illus- 
 trate the subject, I will quote verses 35-47 of this 
 chapter : — 
 
 " But some man will say, How are the dead raised 
 up ? and with what bod}^ do they come ? Thou fool ! 
 that which thou sowest is not quickened except it 
 die ; and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not 
 that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance 
 of wheat, or some other grain. But God giveth it a 
 body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own 
 body. All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is 
 one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, an- 
 other of fishes, and another of birds. There are also 
 celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial ; but the glory 
 of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial 
 is another. There is one glory of the sun, and an- 
 other glory of the moon, and another glory of the 
 stars : for one star differeth from another star in glory. 
 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in 
 corruption ; it is raised in incorruption : it is sown in 
 dishonor ; it is raised in glory : it is sown in weakness ; 
 it is raised in power : it is sown a natural body ; it is 
 raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and 
 there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The 
 first man Adam was made a living soul ; the last 
 Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that 
 was not first which is spiritual, but that which is nat- 
 ural ; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first 
 man is of the earth, earthy ; the second man is the 
 Lord from heaven." 
 
 The spirit seems to have no control of the spirit 
 
122 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 body until the " natural body," or this " tabernacle is 
 dissolved." This body is said to be " from heaven," 
 and " in the heavens," because the elements are 
 higher in the order of development than the elements 
 of our natural bodies, for Paul shows that it is raised 
 out of the natural body, and calls it " the Lord from 
 heaven." 
 
 The natural body is a "burden " to the spirit, and 
 for this reason " we do groan, desiring to be clothed 
 upon with our house which is from heaven." Then 
 u mortality will be swallowed up of life." The strong 
 contrast which Paul here draws shows his estimate of 
 this life to be but as death compared to the life we 
 shall have when we shall " shuffle off this mortal 
 coil." If, then, there were to be a resurrection of 
 our mortal bodies at a future time, we shall be un- 
 clothed again, our heavenly house would be taken 
 from us. No worse calamity could happen, if I un- 
 derstand Paul's reasoning, than to again drive us back 
 to our physical bodies. Well might we cry out again, 
 as he did in olden times, u O, wretched man that I am ! 
 Who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? " 
 (Rom/vii. 24.) For he would again be cursed with 
 that body from which he " groaned earnestly " to be 
 delivered. 
 
 In another letter Paul uses somewhat similar lan- 
 guage (Phil. i. 21-24), showing his intense desire for 
 a state of more freedom. He reasons thus : " For to 
 me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live 
 in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor ; yet what I 
 shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt 
 two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; 
 which is far better. Nevertheless to abide in the 
 flesh is more needful for you." 
 
• SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 123 
 
 I need not again remind the reader that Christ is 
 the church in the spirit world and the mundane world ; 
 hence he claimed that, if he lived, it would be of 
 service to the church. If, however, he was to depart, 
 he would be with Christ, for the redeemed in heaven 
 would meet him, and he never more would be " in 
 perils amongst false brethren," robbers, &c. But he 
 calls dying a " departure ; " and when he departs, he 
 is with Christ. So it is not an unconscious state of 
 existence. If he is an advantage to Christ while 
 here, he will be with him when he departs. 
 
 We are told that Paul when he spoke of a departure 
 meant that he wanted to be translated to heaven with- 
 out seeing death. Then why is it he says " to abide in 
 the flesh is more needful for you " ? Those who hold 
 this position hold that the flesh will be translated. 
 But Paul brings this departure and flesh in direct 
 contrast. 
 
 DEMONS. 
 
 A demon is the spirit of an evil-disposed person. 
 Formerly it signified spirits without reference to char- 
 acter, thus : — 
 
 " Demon — The spirit of a dead man." — Jones. 
 
 "Demon — A spirit, either angel or fiend." — Cud- 
 worth, 
 
 " The demons of Paganism, Judaism, and Chris- 
 tianity were spirits of dead men." — A. Campbell. 
 
 " The notion that demons, or the souls of the dead, 
 having power over the living was universally preva- 
 lent among the heathen of those times, and believed by 
 many Christians." — Dr. Lardner. 
 
 " For what man of virtue is there who does not 
 know that those souls which are severed from the 
 
124 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 fleshly bodies in the battles by the sword are re- 
 ceived by the ether, that purest of elements, and 
 joined to the company which are placed among the 
 stars ; that they become good demons and propitious 
 heroes, and show themselves as such to their 'posterity 
 aftemvard f" — Josephus, Wars of the Jeivs, b. vi. c. i. § 5. 
 
 In a pamphlet I published in 1872,* I made the fol- 
 lowing remark on this subject, which I reproduce 
 here : — 
 
 " Demons, spirits, and angels, and sometimes gods, 
 seem to have about the same meaning. Demon is 
 only a derivative of the word Be, from which we 
 have the words Divine, Deity, Devil, Demon, &c, and 
 wherever one of these words occurs, it more fre- 
 quently refers to a human departed spirit than to 
 anything else. The original of the word Theos, which 
 is nearly the same as De, — both evidently referring 
 to the same thing, — signified to rim, and was applied 
 to the sun and the seven planets, as they seem to run 
 through the mansions — signs of the zodiac — of the 
 heavens : but these spirits, who were angels or mes- 
 sengers of God, who also run about the universe, 
 came in time to have the same appellation." 
 
 I shall only make a few quotations on this point, 
 enough to show that Bible writers had evidence of 
 the existence of the spirit from this source. The 
 word demon had become corrupted, in New Testament 
 times, to mean the spirit of an evil-disposed person. 
 It is thus I shall use the word. I shall only give 
 enough Scripture on this for my purpose. 
 
 * Astrological Origin of Jehovah-God. To be had of the author, 
 or of William White & Co. Price, fifteen cents ; postage, two cents. 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 125 
 
 " And his fame went throughout all Syria : and they 
 brought unto him all sick people that were taken with 
 divers diseases and torments, and those which were 
 possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, 
 and those that had the palsy; and he healed them." 
 (Matt. iv. 24.) 
 
 " When the even was come, they brought unto him 
 many that were possessed with devils : and he cast out 
 the spirits with his word, and healed all that were 
 sick. And when he was come to the other side, into 
 the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two 
 possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, ex- 
 ceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. 
 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to 
 do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God ? art thou come 
 hither to torment us before the time ? And there 
 was a good way off from them an herd of many swine, 
 feeding. So the devils besought him, sa}-ing, If thou 
 cast us out, suffer us to go aAvay into the herd of 
 swine." (Matt. viii. 16, 28-31.) 
 
 These are enough to show that something was be- 
 lieved to be cast out of persons. Jesus called them 
 demons. He did not dispute the idea believed by 
 everybody, that demons were departed human spirits, 
 and, accepting the word, he could not but accept the 
 idea it conveyed. If he had intended to give it a 
 new definition, it should have been recorded so we 
 could have known it. 
 
 In John vii. 20, the Pharisees claimed that Jesus 
 had a devil ; and in the forty-eighth verse of the next 
 chapter they give their reasons for believing he was 
 obsessed by a devil (the original is demon). He 
 was a Samaritan; and, as Samaritans never were 
 
126 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 controlled by good spirits, of course lie was controlled 
 by a devil. All admitted that he was controlled by 
 something ; the only quarrel was whether it was a good 
 spirit or a bad one. If the fact could only be estab- 
 lished that he was a Samaritan, then they would be 
 sure it was an evil spirit, for, like the modern church, 
 they never thought of judging a tree by its fruit. 
 
 In Acts xvi. 16-18, we read of a lady who was pos- 
 sessed of a spirit of divination, who brought her mas- 
 ter much gain by soothsaying, which was expelled by 
 Paul. 
 
 THE HOLY GHOST. 
 
 The original of this word is pneumati Jiagion, which 
 signifies a good spirit. Had it always been translated 
 "holy spirit" it might have had the disadvantage of 
 being less theological than the way it is ; but this 
 would have been more than compensated by having a 
 common-sense translation, in harmony with the truth. 
 
 I contend that this word always has reference to 
 good spirits, or spirit emanations which are calculated 
 to benefit those upon whom they descend, and that it 
 never in a single instance has reference to the supposed 
 third person in the Trinity. I know the objector will 
 refer to the case of the mother of Jesus to make out 
 his argument ; but I shall have no reply to make to 
 that, only to hint that that affair had all been well 
 enough if Mary had not had another husband, or at 
 least expected to have. 
 
 Below I give a few passages containing this word. 
 The reader will see how easy it is to read them " good 
 spirit." 
 
 " But whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 127 
 
 that speak }^e : for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy 
 Ghost." (Mark xiii. 11.) " And it was revealed unto 
 him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death 
 before he had seen the Lord's Christ." (Luke ii. 26.) 
 " But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that be- 
 lieve on him should receive : for the Holy Ghost was 
 not yet given ; because that Jesus was not yet glori- 
 fied." (John vii. 39.) " Until the day in which he was 
 taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had 
 given commandments unto the apostles whom he had 
 chosen." (Acts i. 2.) " Ye stiff-necked, and uncircum- 
 cised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy 
 Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." (Acts vii. 51.) 
 " Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, 
 that they might receive the Holy Ghost. Then laid 
 they their hands on them, and they received the Holy 
 Ghost. And when Simon saw, that through laying 
 on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, 
 he offered them money." (Acts vhi. 15, 17, 18.) 
 
 These passages show that what we call spirits they 
 call Holy Ghost. I shall only criticise one or two pas- 
 sages containing this word, enough to make out a case, 
 showing that when they talked about the Holy Ghost 
 they were referring to departed human spirits, and 
 never to a holy, indescribable, imponderable something, 
 calculated to make fools stare, women hide, and cler- 
 gymen pray. If we could only take all the nonsense 
 out of certain words which have their place in the 
 Bible, by the grace of aspiring ecclesiasticism, and 
 allow it to become a common-sense book, it would be 
 better for the Bible, even though it might be a little 
 hard on the clergy. 
 
 In John xiv. 16-19 we read about a Comforter. 
 
128 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 Jesus had been discoursing of a Comforter that would 
 be sent to them. "Even the Spirit of truth ; whom 
 the world can not receive, because it seeth him not, 
 neither knoweth him : but ye know him ; for he 
 clwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not 
 leave you comfortless : I will come to you. Yet a lit- 
 tle while, and the world seeth me no more ; but ye 
 see me : because I live, ye shall live also." 
 
 The world can not receive this Comforter, " because 
 it seeth him not." So it is the masculine gender. 
 " He dwells with you, and shall be in you." But this 
 Comforter that comes seems to make them clairvoyant ; 
 for, although the world can not see Jesus, the disciples 
 shall see him, for Jesus will live even after they think 
 they have killed him. The twenty-sixth verse tells us 
 more about this Comforter that Jesus promised. " But 
 the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the 
 Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all 
 things, and bring all things to your remembrance, 
 whatsoever I have said unto you." 
 
 So the Comforter and the " Holy Ghost " are the 
 same. This Holy Ghost (good spirit) is really a per- 
 son that teaches the disciples. I pass to the fulfillment 
 of the prophecy. 
 
 " And they were all filled with* the Holy Ghost, 
 and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit 
 gave them utterance." (Acts ii. 4.) 
 
 The word " Holy Ghost," be it remembered, should 
 be "good spirit," or "holy spirit." I will here call 
 attention to another point : there is no Greek word 
 for "the" in the original. So, instead of reading 
 " the Holy Ghost," please read " a good spirit." That 
 will dispense with a deal of ecclesiastical thunder, but 
 
SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 129 
 
 it will be better for the text. Being filled with " a 
 good spirit," " they began to speak with other tongues," 
 or in other languages, " as the Spirit," that is, this 
 good spirit that filled them, " gave them utterance," 
 or spoke through their organisms. When Stephen was 
 filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts vi. 3, 5 ; vii. 55), they 
 that sat in the council " saw his face as it had been the 
 face of an angel." (vii. 15.) So the Holy Ghost, look- 
 ing through his organism, appeared like an angel ; 
 neither " could they resist the wisdom by which he 
 spoke." So this spirit, controlling him and looking 
 through his face, was too wise for them. 
 
 In the verse under review, the Spirit gave them ut- 
 terance in foreign languages. So it must have been 
 some spirit that understood those languages. They 
 were in the habit of speaking in languages that they 
 knew nothing of, nor did they know the interpretation 
 of the languages they spoke ; hence they had to have 
 another influence come and control some one else to 
 interpret these languages. (See 1 Cor. xiv. 4, 5, 6, 27, 
 28 ; xii. 10.) The fact that the Holy Ghost, or good 
 spirit, could talk through one organism in an unknown 
 tongue, and through another organism could interpret 
 what he had said — or another Holy Ghost could do 
 it if he could not — through the first organism, de- 
 monstrates that these holy ghosts were departed hu- 
 man spirits. 
 
 Paul found a great deal of fault with the Corinthians 
 because they spoke in other tongues when there was 
 no interpreter present (1 Cor. xiv. 26-32), and told 
 them that " the spirits of the prophets are subject to 
 the prophets." But these spirits that he talked about 
 are what in other places are called "holy ghosts;" 
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130 THE HERE AFTER. 
 
 and lie surely would not want to rebel against one of 
 the Trinity, and scold his instruments for the confu- 
 sion they were causing, accusing them of not being 
 " decent," and telling the brethren to hold the " Holy 
 Ghost " in check. 
 
 Peter tells them that this is in fulfillment of the proph- 
 ecy of Joel, where it was pronounced that they " should 
 see visions," and " dream dreams," after the pouring 
 out of the Spirit of God. I believe development is in 
 the order of God ; and as magnetism is the element of 
 development, it is the "spirit of God." This is at 
 times called the " Holy Ghost," but not near so often 
 as are human spirits. 
 
 THE TRANCE. 
 
 I have already explained this in my explanation of 
 Spirit Control. The subject entranced is always mag- 
 netized ; usually the eyes roll up and the eyelids close, 
 shutting out external objects from the sight. Fre- 
 quently, however, after the subject has been entranced 
 a number of times, the control is quite as perfect with 
 the eyes open. In Num. xxiv. 4, we read that Balaam 
 was entranced, " but having his eyes wide open." The 
 prophecy being uttered under this condition, was sup- 
 posed to be more perfect. In Acts x. 10, we read that 
 Peter became entranced, " And he became very hun- 
 gry, and would have eaten : but while they made ready, 
 he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a 
 certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a 
 great sheet, knit at the four corners, and let down to 
 the earth." 
 
 In the fifth verse of the next chapter he again re- 
 fers to the matter as follows: " I was in the city of 
 
SCEIPTUKAL EVIDENCES. 131 
 
 Joppa, praying : and in a trance I saw a vision, a cer- 
 tain vessel descending, as it had been a great sheet, let 
 down from heaven by four corners ; and it came even 
 to me." That it was a spirit that entranced him is 
 evident from the nineteenth verse of chapter ten. 
 " While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said 
 unto him, Behold, three men seek thee." 
 
 In verse twenty-two this spirit is called a " a holy 
 angel." If a " holy angel " is a " spirit," it is a " holy 
 spirit," which is the same as a " holy ghost." But in 
 the thirtieth verse this spirit, " holy ghost," or " angel " 
 is called a "man ... in bright clothing;" and it 
 must thence be a spirit of a man. In Acts xxii. 17, 
 Paul tells us he was in a trance. " And it came to 
 pass, that when I was come again to Jerusalem, even 
 while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance ; and 
 saw him, saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee 
 quickly out of Jerusalem : for they will not receive 
 thy testimony concerning me. And I said, Lord, they 
 know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue 
 them that believed on thee : and when the blood of 
 thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, 
 and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment 
 of them that slew him. And he said unto me, depart : 
 for I will send thee far hence, unto the Gentiles." 
 
 In this trance condition Paul was clairvoyant and 
 clairaudient, for he both saw and heard Jesus talk. If 
 Jesus' body had been raised, it would not have been 
 necessary for Paul to be entranced to see and hear him. 
 Paul relates another trance he had in the following 
 language: "I knew a man in Christ about fourteen 
 years ago (whether in the body, I can not tell : or 
 whether out of the body, I can not tell ; Gocl know- 
 
132 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 eth) : sucli an one caught up to the third heaven. 
 And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out 
 of the body, I can not tell : God know eth) ; how that 
 he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeak- 
 able words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." 
 (2 Cor. xii. 2-4.) 
 
 If the spirit could not exist independent of the 
 body, the supposition is that Paul was " in the body ; " 
 and inasmuch as he can not tell whether he was or 
 not, the probability is that he had an idea that he 
 passed out of the body while in the trance state. 
 When John refers to his being " in the Spirit on the 
 Lord's day " (Rev. i. 10), he probably referred to a 
 trance condition into which he had passed. The Greek, 
 egenomen en pncumati, seems to imply that he had 
 passed into a spiritual condition ; and I am unable to 
 distinguish it from the trance. I would have the 
 reader note, there never is a trance without a con- 
 troller. If this controller is not in the material world, 
 he must be in the spirit world. I know of certain di- 
 vines not far from where I am writing, who, if they 
 had the manifestations of tongues in the year 1873 in- 
 stead of 33, would say it was "magnetism;" and if 
 Peter should become entranced, and learn in that con- 
 dition that three men had come after him to go to 
 Joppa, they would give a lucid explanation of it on 
 the principle of "mind-reading;" or if Paul should 
 be caught away in vision to the third heaven, they 
 would warn the world that "it is demonism." When 
 John went forth under the control of Elijah the proph- 
 et, the incensed people killed him as an enemy to 
 mankind. The children of the murderers follow in 
 the same footsteps, only that they semi-deify the an- 
 
SCEIPTUEAL EVIDENCES. 133 
 
 cient John, who is out of their reach, and hunt for 
 modern mediums like him, to make holocausts out of, 
 to call forth the veneration of some coming generation 
 of men. 
 
 When Jesus went forth under this control, every 
 one declared that he had a devil, and so they killed 
 him. Now his admirers only want the power to kill 
 everybody like him, and set on a tremendous rabble to 
 howl down those who will not venerate him as a God. 
 
 Thus far I have passed along without saying any- 
 thing concerning the resurrection of Jesus. This will 
 be one of the subjects of my next chapter. 
 
134 THE HEREAFTEB. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 MORE SCEIPTUKAL EVIDENCES. 
 
 Bible Apparitions. — Samuel's Eeturn. — Testimony of Dr. Adam Clarke. — 
 Moses and Elias. — Was Jesus' Body raised? — A novel Explanation. — 
 Representation of Jesus' Wounds. — Similar Cases. — Jesus' Appearance to 
 the Women. — Disagreement of the Witnesses. — Explanation. — On the 
 Way to Emmaus. — Appearance to the Eleven. — Another Appearance. — 
 Did Thomas see Jesus' Physical Body? — What is " the Comforter"? — 
 Jesus' Appearance to Paul.— The two Narratives. — Paul a Pharisee. — 
 Paul's View of Jesus' Resurrection. — How is Death abolished ? — Exami- 
 nation of 1 Cor. xv. — Conclusion. 
 
 " But had certain questions against him of their 
 own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, 
 whom Paul affirmed to be alive." (Acts xxv. 19.) 
 
 " Some secret truths, from learned pride concealed, 
 To maids alone and children are revealed. 
 What, though no credit doubting wits may give, 
 The fair and innocent shall still believe. 
 Know, then, unnumbered spirits round thee fly, 
 The light militia of the lower sky ; 
 These, though unseen, are ever on the wing, 
 Hang o'er the box, and hover round the ring. 
 Think what an equipage thou hast in air, 
 And view with scorn two pages and a chair. 
 As now your own, our beings were of old, 
 And once inclosed in woman's beauteous mold; 
 Thence, by a soft transition, we repair 
 Erom earthly vehicles to thee in air." Pope. 
 
 APPARITIONS. 
 
 Ocular evidence is justly considered the best in 
 the world. It is admitted that the other organs may 
 
MOEE SCEIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 135 
 
 be deceived ; but whenever anything is made apparent 
 to the eyes, it is then considered beyond question. 
 The ocular demonstrations of the present generation 
 are not entirely satisfactory to persons under the influ- 
 ence of the religious views of the day. Hence I must 
 refer to a few demonstrations of the same kind recog- 
 nized as correct by Bible makers. 
 
 Samuel. — The first evidence of that kind I will call 
 attention to is the case of Samuel (1 Sam. xxviii.), com- 
 monly called the " Witch of Endor," although the text 
 says nothing about a witch. This is more a case of 
 clairvoyance than apparition, as no one but the medium 
 saw Samuel. Her description of him, however, was 
 so perfect, that Saul recognized it at once. The eva- 
 sion that is made on this is, that the woman did not 
 really see Samuel, although the Bible expressly says, 
 " And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a 
 loud voice : and the woman spake to Saul, saying, 
 Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul" 
 (verse 12). No amount of denunciation of my infi- 
 delity for believing this passage is thought sufficient. 
 The conversation goes on after Saul had " perceived 
 it was Samuel," in the most common way, the Bible 
 — " our only guide from earth to heaven" — never 
 stopping to tell us that the whole thing is a grand de- 
 ception played off on us by the devil, or some of his 
 agents, — calls him Samuel, and the other party Saul. 
 If the Bible account is true, Samuel was as really 
 there as was Saul ; if he was not there, it would have 
 been the duty of the Bible writers to have said so. 
 
 This one case of Samuel stands out prominent be- 
 fore the world as an evidence that men do live after 
 the death of the body, and can come back and demon- 
 
136 THE HEEEAETEE. 
 
 strate their existence. Dr. Adam Clarke, when com- 
 menting on this chapter, conld not avoid the evidence 
 forced upon his attention. He said, — 
 
 1. "I believe there is a supernatural and spiritual 
 world, in which human spirits, both good and bad, 
 live in a state of consciousness." . . . 3. " I be- 
 lieve that any of these spirits m,ay, according to the 
 order of God in the laws of their place of residence, 
 have intercourse with this world, and become visible to 
 mortals.'''' 
 
 Moses and Elias. — This case is recorded in Matt, 
 xvii. 1-4, as follows : — 
 
 " And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and 
 John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high 
 mountain apart, and was transfigured before them ; 
 and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was 
 white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto 
 them Moses and Elias, talking with him. Then an- 
 swered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for 
 us to be here : if thou wilt, let us make here three 
 tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one 
 for Elias." 
 
 This record is clear. Moses had been in the spirit 
 world nearly fifteen hundred years, and Elias h.id been 
 there over nine hundred years, yet they both appeared. 
 But I am told it was a vision ! ! As much as to say a 
 vision is not a truth. The Bible is the result of vis- 
 ions, and if they were rejected we should have noth- 
 ing left on which to build oar hopes, unless we admit 
 the evidences now coming from the spirit worl d. Wheth- 
 er it was a vision or not, Moses and Elias actually ap- 
 peared and talked with Jesus upon the mount concern- 
 ing what he should suffer. I now pass to consider the 
 question, 
 
MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 137 
 
 WAS JESUS' BODY RAISED? 
 
 I take the position it was not. 
 
 " And there came also Nicodemus (which at the first 
 came to Jesus by night), and brought a mixture of 
 nryrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight. 
 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in 
 linen clothes with the spices, as is the manner of the 
 Jews to bury. Now in the place where he was cruci- 
 fied there was a garden ; and in the garden a new sep- 
 ulchre, wherein was never man laid. There laid they 
 Jesus therefore because of the Jews' Preparation day ; 
 for the sepulchre was nigh at hand." (John xix. 
 39, 40.) 
 
 Now here we learn that they buried Jesus in the 
 garden, near the cross. But there is another bit of 
 history in the preceding verse which shows that he 
 was taken out of that sepulchre, and moved to Arima- 
 thea. It reads, — 
 
 " And after this Joseph of Arimathea, being a dis- 
 ciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, be- 
 sought Pilate that he might take away the body of 
 Jesus : and Pilate gave him leave. He came there- 
 fore, and took the body of Jesus." 
 
 Joseph took the body away " secretly for fear of the 
 Jews." It is hardly to be supposed, then, that any one 
 knew of the absence of the body, hence they supposed 
 it was there. Even the women came to the garden to 
 anoint the body. (Matt, xviii. 1 ; Mark xvi. 1, 2.) In 
 John xx. 15, Mary supposed Jesus was the gardener, 
 which demonstrates that they did not know he had 
 been removed. This guard was not appointed until 
 the day after his death. He was crucified and buried 
 on Preparation day (Mark xv. 42), and the guard was 
 put there the day after. Here is the history : — 
 
138 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 " Now tlie next day, that followed the day of the 
 Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came to- 
 gether unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that 
 deceiver said, while he was yet alive, after three days 
 I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepul- 
 chre be made sure until the third day, lest his disci- 
 ples come by night and steal him away, and say unto 
 the people, He is risen from the dead : so the last error 
 shall be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them, 
 Ye have a watch : go your way, make it as sure as ye 
 can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, 
 sealing the stone, and setting a watch." (Matt, xxvii. 
 62-66.) 
 
 So they took the trouble to seal up a sepulchre, and 
 put a guard around it, while the body which they were 
 so anxious to protect was seven miles away in another 
 sepulchre. 
 
 It is claimed that Jesus denied being a spirit. 
 
 " But they were terrified and affrighted, and sup- 
 posed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto 
 them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts 
 arise in your hearts ? Behold my hands and my feet, 
 that it is I myself: handle me, and see ; for a spirit 
 hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." (Luke 
 xxiv. 37-39.) 
 
 There are several reflections to be taken into consid- 
 eration in this passage. 
 
 1. Their idea of a spiritual being was something 
 like our ideas of phantoms. They had no fears of an- 
 gels or spirits of that class ; but there were spirits 
 that they did fear, who seemed to be phantoms, yet 
 often portending evil, and sometimes exerting evil in- 
 fluences. 
 
MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 139 
 
 2. That class of spirits have no flesh and bones; 
 that is, they are not tangible. Bnt Jesus did appear 
 to be tangible to those who saw him. They saw his 
 wounds. This is nothing strange ; for I have related 
 a number of cases where the spirit represented the 
 wounds after the death of the body. I do not think 
 it would be a trespass on the patience of the reader 
 for me to introduce one case from John Wesley's 
 Journal, vol. hi. pp. 244, 245, London edition, 1821. 
 It is given under date of June 3, 1756, and is intro- 
 duced by Wesley, who states that he had received a 
 letter from a minister, and gives the extract as fol- 
 lows : — 
 
 "I had the following account from the gentlewoman 
 herself, a person of piety and veracity. She is now 
 the wife of One J. B.« a silversmith of Cork. 
 
 " About thirty years ago she tells that she had ex- 
 pected to be married in a short time to one Richard 
 Mercier, who was a volunteer in the army. He was 
 compelled to move his regiment to Charleville, and 
 thence to Dublin. 4 When the regiment left town, he 
 promised to return in two months and marry me. 
 From Charleville he went to Dublin; thence to his 
 father's, and from thence to England, where, his fa- 
 ther having bought him a cornetcy of horse, he pur- 
 chased many arrangements for the wedding; and, 
 returning to Ireland, let her know that he would be 
 at her house in Charleville in a few days. On this, 
 the family was busied to prepare for his reception and 
 the ensuing marriage. When, one night, my sister 
 Mollie and I being asleep in our bed, I was awakened 
 by the sudden opening of the side curtain, and start- 
 ing up, saw Mr. Mercier standing by the bedside. He 
 
140 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 was wrapped up in a loose sheet, and had a napkin, 
 folded like a nightcap, on his head. He looked at me 
 very earnestly, and lifting up the napkin, which much 
 shaded his face, showed me the left side of his head 
 all bloody and covered with his brains. The room, 
 meantime was quite light. My terror was excessive, 
 and it was still increased by his stooping over the bed 
 and embracing me in his arms. My cries alarmed the 
 whole family, who came crowding into the room. 
 Upon their entrance he gently withdrew his arms, and 
 ascended, as it were, through the ceiling. I continued 
 for some time in strong fits. When I could speak, I 
 told them what I had seen. One of them, but a day 
 or two after, going to the postmaster for letters* found 
 him reading the newspaper, in which was an account 
 that Cornet Mercier, going into the Christ Church bel- 
 fry in Dublin, just after the bells had been ringing, 
 and standing under the bells, one of them, which was 
 turned bottom upwards, suddenly turning again, struck 
 one side of his head, and killed him on the spot. On 
 farther inquiry, we found he was struck on the left 
 side of the head.' " 
 
 3. He could not have had a corporeal body, for Paul 
 says, " flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of 
 God." (1 Cor. xv. 50.) The Greek word for "see 
 me have," is " theoreite," * and signifies " as I appear 
 to have," just as the apparition quoted from Wesley's 
 Journal appeared to have a wound in the side of the 
 head. 
 
 * The word Theoreia, according to Grove's Greek Lexicon, signi- 
 fies "a look, survey, observation; theory, speculation, meditation, 
 study; examination, consideration; a sight, spectacle." So we have 
 no positive statement that Jesus was possessed of actual " flesh and 
 bones." 
 
MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 141 
 
 4. If it actually bad been the body of Jesus, how 
 did it happen to appear in a close room, the doors 
 being shut ? (John xx. 19.) 
 
 I shall now notice the different apparitions of Jesus 
 after his death, and try to establish the fact that he 
 only appeared as a spirit. Let us then, in the first 
 place, consider 
 
 HIS APPEARANCE TO THE WOMEN. 
 
 Matthew tells us, " And as they went to tell his 
 disciples, behold 'Jesus met them, saying, all hail ! 
 And they came and held him by the feet, and wor- 
 shiped him." (Matt, xxviii. 9.) 
 
 This was Mary and Mary Magdalene. They had 
 been to see the sepulchre, and found it empty. But 
 Mark tells us that " he appeared first to Mary Mag- 
 dalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils." (Mark 
 xvi. 9.) Luke makes no mention of the appearance of 
 Jesus. He says, " And it came to pass, as they were 
 much perplexed thereabout, behold two men stood by 
 them in shining garments ; and as they were afraid, 
 and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto 
 them, Why seek ye the living among the dead ? He 
 is not here, but is risen ; remember how he spake unto 
 you when he was yet in Galilee." (Luke xxiv. 4-6.) 
 
 Luke says it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and 
 Mary, the mother of Jesus, that saw him. John dis- 
 agrees with Matthew and Luke, but agrees with 
 Mark, that it was Mary Magdalene who saw Jesus. 
 " She turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, 
 and knew not that it was Jesus." (John xx. 14.) 
 
 Now, why all this discrepancy of the witnesses ? 
 There is a disagreement in the first place concerning 
 
142 THE HEREAFTEE. 
 
 the number and names of the witnesses, and in the 
 second place about what they saw, and in the third 
 place where they saw it. 
 
 1. Matthew says that it was Mary and Mary Mag- 
 dalene that saw this apparition, while Mark and John 
 tell us it was Mary Magdalene alone who saw it, and 
 Luke would agree with Matthew, if he had not had 
 another witness in the company (Joanna), not men- 
 tioned by either of the other two. 
 
 2. Matthew tells us it was on Saturday night, a 
 little after sundown ; that being the end of the Sab- 
 bath. But Mark tells us it was at sunrise the next 
 morning. (Mark xvi. 1, 2.) John does not tell which 
 was right, but leaves us to infer that it was in the 
 morning, before sunrise, for "it was yet dark." (John 
 xx. 1.) Again, Matthew tells us they met Jesus on 
 the way. (xxviii. 9.) Mark does not say where he 
 was seen, only that they did not find him about the 
 sepulchre, (xvi. 9, 1-5.) But John tells us the 
 women saw him in the garden, and thought it was 
 the gardener. They also disagree as to who saw him, 
 and the number of angels at the sepulchre. 
 
 This is a part of the testimony brought forward to 
 prove that Jesus' body was raised ; and yet the wit- 
 nesses could not tell whether they saw him or some 
 other angel, or whether it was not the gardener ; 
 whether he was at the tomb or half way to Jerusalem. 
 If they could not agree in their testimony concerning 
 who, what, or where this apparition was, how are we 
 to know at this distance of time. If they saw him, 
 and supposed him to be an angel, is it not probable 
 that they only saw his spirit body ? Let us suppose 
 that these ladies were mediums, and that each one 
 
MOKE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 143 
 
 saw apparitions at the several different times, and 
 that amongst these apparitions one of them saw Jesus, 
 and all is clear. Otherwise it is not. Each one could 
 only see at the time they were clairvoyant, and as 
 they were not all clairvoyant at once, all did not see 
 him at the same time ; and as all were not in rapport 
 with the same spirit, they each saw different spirits. 
 
 HIS APPEARANCE ON THE WAY TO EMMAUS. 
 
 Mark tells us, — 
 
 " After that he appeared in another form unto two 
 of them as they walked and went into the country. 
 And they went and told it unto the residue : neither 
 believed they them." (Mark xvi. 12, 13.) 
 
 The question is, why could they not believe these 
 two disciples, with whom they were well acquainted ? 
 If the most intimate friends of the witnesses of the 
 resurrection doubted their testimony, how could we 
 be expected to take their testimony at this distance 
 of time ? Thus it is -the whole way through, we find 
 each of the disciples doubtful of the testimony of their 
 brethren, and yet we are expected to swallow the 
 whole thing without a doubt. Their reason for doubt- 
 ing, perhaps, was fixed on the doubtful testimony. 
 The Greek word phaina signifies to " bring to light, 
 show, display, exhibit, lay open, reveal, disclose, make 
 apparent; to give light, shine, glitter, brighten; to 
 charge, accuse, complain of" (Grrove.^) Out of the 
 same word grows phanomai, "to appear, be seen, be- 
 come visible, to shine, sparkle ; to seem, be thought 
 or supposed" {Grove), and it is translated into the 
 English phenomenon. From this we gather the idea 
 that he was not manifested fully to them. That this 
 is the case, is evident from Luke xxiv. 15, 16. 
 
144 THE HEEEAFTEK. 
 
 " And it came to pass, that, while they communed 
 together, and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and 
 went with them. But their eyes were holden that 
 they should not know him." 
 
 We are not informed that they saw Jesus at all. 
 All we know of it is that he " drew near and went 
 with them." It is possible that they saw him ; if so, 
 they did not see him sufficiently distinct to recognize 
 him. Nor will the Greek text give us any clearer idea 
 of how they knew of his presence. The word Engiza 
 signifies " to come nigh, to draw near, approach ; to 
 be at hand, impend, hang over." (Grove.*) Then he 
 drew near, but they had no correct ocular demonstra- 
 tion of it, for their eyes were holden (affected — Greek) 
 that they should not know him. As they passed along, 
 however, he seemed to enter into the spirit of their con- 
 versation with them. But still they failed to recognize 
 him during their whole journey. In verse 31, Luke 
 says, " And their eyes were opened, and they knew 
 him ; and he vanished out of their sight." 
 
 So it is really doubtful that they had seen him until 
 " their eyes were opened." This is certainly poor 
 evidence upon which to found a doctrine of a literal 
 resurrection, especially when it is evident from the 
 record that they were unable to recognize the person. 
 The fact that he " vanished out of their sight," if it 
 does not demonstrate a clairvoyant view, proves that 
 he could have had none but a spirit body, as no other 
 could dissolve out of view with such ease. 
 
 HIS FIE ST APPEAEANCE TO THE ELEVEN. 
 
 From the testimony thus far adduced the disciples 
 saw no good reason to believe that he had been 
 
MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 145 
 
 raised. He next appeared to the eleven disciples, 
 but here the testimony was doubtful again. Luke 
 says, — 
 
 " And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in 
 the midst of them, and said, Peace be unto you. But 
 the} T were terrified and affrighted, and supposed they 
 had seen a spirit." (Luke xxiv. 86, 37.) 
 
 If Jesus' body had appeared there, why should 
 they have supposed him to be a spirit ? Mark refers 
 to the same apparition, thus : — 
 
 " Afterward he appeared to the eleven as they sat 
 at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and 
 hardness of heart, because they believed not them 
 which had seen him after he was risen." (Mark 
 xvi. 14.) 
 
 If this does not show that they had reasons for 
 their doubts, the following will. The fact is, they 
 had only seen him as clairvoyants, and such evidence 
 being of a new kind was unsatisfactory. In Matt, 
 xxviii. 17, we read, " And when they saw him they 
 worshiped him, but some doubted." But who 
 "doubted"? Not they who saw him, certainly. 
 Was ever evidence plainer that when he appeared to 
 the eleven he was seen by clairvoyants, and clairvoy- 
 ants only? The "some" who doubted were not 
 clairvoyant, and therefore did not see him ; for if 
 they had seen him they would have had no room 
 for doubt. John relates this apparition (John xx. 19, 
 20), and tells us that Thomas, being absent, doubted 
 also when he heard the story, which would be alto- 
 gether likely. If those who were present could not 
 believe, he was certainly pardonable for doubting. 
 The evidence of this appearance then, is just such as 
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146 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 would be likely to be given by clairvoyants concern- 
 ing any spirit at the present time. In fact, clairvoy- 
 ants give better evidences of spirit appearances now 
 than they seemed to do at that time ; but we shall find, 
 as we pass along, that the evidence grows stronger. 
 
 HIS SECOND APPEARANCE TO THE ELEVEN 
 
 is recorded in John xx. 26-29, where he again mani- 
 fested himself. 
 
 " And after eight days, again his disciples were 
 within, and Thomas with them ; then came Jesus, the 
 doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, 
 Peace be unto }~ou. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach 
 hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach 
 hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side : and be 
 not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered 
 and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith 
 unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou 
 hast believed ; blessed are they that have not seen, 
 and yet have believed." 
 
 It seems that Thomas wanted a test, and so he 
 claimed that if the clairvoyants had seen him they 
 ought to have seen his wounds, and thereupon claims 
 that unless he could have tangible evidence by which 
 he could demonstrate the presence of Jesus, he would 
 not believe. Hence Jesus offers that evidence ; but 
 Thomas is satisfied without ; it is enough that he has 
 seen him. But did he see Jesus' physical body? 
 To me there is no evidence that he did, and there is 
 considerable evidence that he did not ; for if he had, 
 all the other disciples would have seen him at the 
 same time. But they did not, for Jesus tells him, 
 " Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; 
 
MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 147 
 
 blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have 
 believed." There were those then present who were 
 compelled to take Thomas' word for the evidence. 
 The evidence that Jesus was seen only by clairvoy- 
 ants not only appears in the language we have had 
 under examination, but Peter positively testifies to 
 his spiritual appearance in public, and yet but few 
 could see him. 
 
 " Him God raised up the third day, and showed 
 him openly ; not to all the people, but unto witnesses 
 chosen before of God, even to us who did eat and 
 drink with him after he rose from the dead." (Acts 
 x. 40, 41.) 
 
 Thus, when he appeared he was only seen by the 
 clairvoyants who were to be witnesses. Though the 
 house was full, none others could see him. Jesus re- 
 fers to this gift of clairvoyance in John xiv. 16-18, 22. 
 After telling the disciples that he is to leave them, he 
 informs them that a Comforter will come, " even the 
 Spirit of truth, whom the world can not receive, be- 
 cause it seetJi him not, neither knoweth him ; " but he 
 gives them to understand that they shall know him ; 
 this, of course, will be because they shall see him. 
 That they are to see this Comforter is manifest from 
 the 22d verse: " Judas saith unto him, Lord, how is it 
 that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not unto 
 the world?" 
 
 But the question arises, Who is this Comforter, 
 that will be manifest to the disciples, and not to the 
 world? Jesus says the Comforter will not come if "I 
 go not away " (xvi. 17), and that this Comforter is the 
 "Holy Ghost." (xiv. 26.) The phrase "hofy ghost" 
 would have been more properly translated " holy spir- 
 
148 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 it," or " good spirit," for such is the meaning of pneu- 
 mati hagion. The next question would be, Who is 
 this good spirit that was to be seen by his disciples ? 
 We have already found he is called the " Spirit of 
 truth." In John xvi. 13, we learn that this spirit of 
 truth is to be a guardian angel, for he says, " he will 
 guide you into all truth." The answer to this ques- 
 tion may really be found in Judas' question: " Lord, 
 how is it thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not 
 unto the ivorld f " Judas had conceived the idea then, 
 that that Comforter which was to come was the spirit 
 of Jesus ; and well he might, for while Jesus was prom- 
 ising a Comforter, he used the following language : — 
 
 " I will not leave you comfortless : I will come to 
 you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no 
 more ; but ye see me ; because I live, ye shall live also." 
 (xiv. 18, 19.) This testimony is again confirmed in 
 chapter xvi. 16, where he promises, " A little while, 
 and ye shall not see me : and again, a little while, and 
 ye shall see me, because I go unto the Father." 
 
 Not only does the evidence appear that Jesus' spirit 
 was seen after his death, but that it appeared in fulfill- 
 ment of a prediction that he should come again, and 
 be seen of them at a time when the world, not being 
 clairvoyant, could not see him. 
 
 HIS APPEARANCE TO PAUL. 
 
 Before I attempt to give Paul's views on the resur- 
 rection of Jesus, I must refer to the appearance of 
 Jesus to him ; and as Paul and Luke disagree in some 
 of the minor features, I shall give them side by side, 
 that the reader may compare them together. I do not 
 really think any one penned these differing accounts 
 
MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 
 
 149 
 
 on purpose to deceive the people. Luke, perhaps, did 
 not fully understand the story, as it was related sec- 
 ond hand to him. 
 
 Luke's Testimony. 
 
 "And as he journeyed, he came 
 near Damascus : and suddenly 
 there shined round about him a 
 light from heaven : and he fell 
 to the earth, and heard a voice 
 saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why 
 persecutest thou me? And he 
 said, Who art thou, Lord? And 
 the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom 
 thou persecutest : it is hard for 
 thee to kick against the pricks. 
 And he, trembling and astonished, 
 said, Lord what wilt thou have 
 me to do? And the Lord said 
 unto him, Arise, and go into the 
 city, and it shall be told thee 
 what thou must do. And the men 
 which journeyed with him stood 
 speechless, hearing a voice, but 
 seeing no man." (Acts ix. 3-7.) 
 
 Paul's Testimony. 
 
 " And it came to pass that as 
 I made my journey, and was come 
 nigh unto Damascus about noon, 
 suddenly there shone from heav- 
 en a great light round about me, 
 and I fell upon the ground, and 
 heard a voice saying unto me, 
 Saul, Saul, Avhy persecutest thou 
 me ? And I answered, Who art 
 thou, Lord? And he said unto 
 me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, 
 whom thou persecutest. And 
 they that were with me saw in- 
 deed the light, and were afraid; 
 but they heard not the voice of 
 him that spake to me." (Acts 
 xxii. 6-10.) 
 
 So far as the argument is concerned, I do not care 
 which account is the correct one. It is enough for 
 my purpose that Paul had one gift that the others had 
 not. If Paul saw what the others did not see, it was 
 because he was clairvoyant, and had a spiritual vision. 
 If he heard what the others did not hear, it was be- 
 cause he was clairaudient and heard spirit voices. 
 
 If Paul had intended, in his narration of this event, 
 to convey the idea that Jesus' dead body had been 
 again raised to life, then he was very unfortunate in 
 the expression of that idea, for the people thought 
 
150 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 tliat he intended to try to convince them of something 
 else. Paul perceived that his audience was made up 
 of the Pharisees and Sadducees ; but wishing to court 
 the favor of the one part, he said, " Men and breth- 
 ren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee : of the 
 hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in 
 question. And when he had so said, there arose a 
 dissension between the Pharisees and Sadducees ; and 
 the multitude was divided. For the Sadducees say 
 that there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit ; 
 but the Pharisees confess both." (Acts xxiii. 6-8.) 
 
 This fixes the resurrection pretty plain. It would 
 not do to say the Sadducees did not believe in any 
 angels or spirits, for they believed the writings of 
 Moses, which often told about them. But they did 
 not believe that these angels and spirits were resur- 
 rected persons. They did not believe in any resur- 
 rection, either angel or spirits. The Pharisees confess 
 both. They believed that angels and spirits were 
 raised from the dead. Paul took issue with the Sad- 
 ducees, and supported the doctrine of the Pharisees 
 on this point. That the Pharisees so understood Paul 
 is evident from the next verse. 
 
 " And the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part, 
 arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man ; 
 but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not 
 fight against God." 
 
 This spirit or angel in which the Pharisees believed, 
 was what Paul described Jesus as being after his 
 death. Who, then, can escape the conclusion, that 
 when Paul saw the apparition which he claimed to 
 be Jesus, he saw a spirit ? 
 
 Although I have partially discussed the subject, I 
 
MOKE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 151 
 
 will ask, and try to further answer the question, 
 What was 
 
 paul's view of the resurrection of jesus? 
 
 Paul's opinions on this are summed up in the fol- 
 lowing proposition : — 
 
 " But is now made manifest by the appearing of 
 our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, 
 and brought life and immortality to light through the 
 gospel." (2 Tim. i. 10.) 
 
 Paul is not talking about the birth of Jesus in this 
 verse. The word epiphaneias signifies, according to 
 Greenfield, " an appearance, the act of appearing, 
 manifestation." Perhaps a more proper understand- 
 ing of it would be, a sudden and unaccountable light. 
 (Luke i. 79.) In 2 Thess. ii. 8. it is translated very 
 faithfully revealed, and in 1 Thess. hi. 13, it is trans- 
 lated coming — "at the coming of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, with all his saints ; " but this really signifies a 
 sudden apparition. So, too, 1 Thess. v. 23. There 
 can be no question that he is talking about the sud- 
 den apparition of Jesus after his death. Tf the ap- 
 pearance of Jesus in the manger had been referred to, 
 there was nothing unusual manifested by that event ; 
 but this appearing comes in demonstration of a truth, 
 or, at least, of a hypothesis, which I hold is the theo- 
 ry of immortality beyond the grave. The evidence 
 that Jesus has " abolished death " appears in the fact 
 that, when they killed his body, he continued to live ; 
 and the evidence that he lived was found in the fact 
 that he appeared after the death of his body, and 
 talked with his disciples. Had the people previously 
 enjoyed the light which now shines into the be- 
 
152 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 yond, there would have been no death to abolish. 
 The Pharisees had a dim idea of a future life, but no 
 way of demonstrating it, while the Sadducees, who 
 were the materialists of the day, stoutly denied it, 
 and called for a demonstration of the fact. Panl took 
 sides with the Pharisees, and claimed that the fact 
 had been established by the appearing of Jesus after 
 his death. The death of that day, like the devil of 
 the nineteenth century, existed altogether in the 
 brains of theologians, and such as could be duped 
 by them. The words, " brought life and immortality 
 to light through the gospel," proves that " life and im- 
 mortality " was a fact before the death of Jesus, as 
 well as after, but it had never been " brought to 
 light " until the fact had been demonstrated by the 
 continued existence of Jesus after the death of his 
 body. Paul never changed his Pharisaical views of 
 a life hereafter ; he had always believed in a future 
 life, — a life of the spirit, — and announces that his 
 views were still the same. (Acts xxiii. 6-9.) 
 
 In 1 Cor. xv. Paul devotes a whole chapter to the 
 demonstration of a future life ; but he bases it all on 
 the resurrection of Jesus. I have before shown that 
 Jesus' resurrection was a spiritual event ; and in this 
 same chapter Paul informs his- readers that the natu- 
 ral body can not be raised ; that, having two bodies, 
 one dies and goes to corruption, the other is raised 
 (verses 38-50), and that we are manifested through 
 earthly bodies first, and afterward through the spirit- 
 ual. Nothing is plainer than that he looked forward 
 to a future when we should only have spiritual bodies. 
 
 Upon the re-living, or the continuation of life, the 
 anastasis of this new spiritual body, Paul bases his 
 
MORE SCEIPTUEAL EVIDENCES. 153 
 
 entire hope of a life hereafter. He commences, 
 " For I delivered unto you, first of all, that which 
 I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, ac- 
 cording to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and 
 rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures." 
 Here, then, was the foundation of Paul's gospel. It 
 was the resurrection of Jesus. This has been demon- 
 strated to have been a spiritual event. If you take 
 the doctrine of a future life or spiritual existence out 
 of Paul's system of theology, the whole fabric will 
 fall to the ground, having no foundation. It was for 
 this reason that he always centers everything in the 
 resurrection of Jesus. For if he could prove that 
 Jesus lived after his decease in his mortal body, then 
 the fact of a future life would be demonstrated. 
 Now the evidence that Jesus did live after the death 
 of his body was, that " he was seen of Cephas, then 
 of the twelve ; after that he was seen of above five 
 hundred brethren at one time ; of whom the greater 
 part remain unto this present, but some are fallen 
 asleep. After that he was seen of James, then of all 
 the apostles, and last of all he was seen of me also, as 
 one born out of due time." As there were about 
 seventy apostles besides the eleven that were with 
 Jesus, and Matthias, *who was elected to play that he 
 had been with Jesus when he had not (Acts i. 23, 24), 
 Paul, who quarreled with the apostles about his apos- 
 tleship (2 Cor. xi. 13 ; Rom. xi. 13), and declared he 
 was " not a whit behind the chief est apostles " (2 
 Cor. xi. 5 ; xii. 11, 12), there must have been near- 
 ly six hundred witnesses in all. The style of the 
 argument is such that it is plain that Paul intends to 
 make a test case of this one instance. The whole 
 
154 THE HEBE AFTER. 
 
 issue falls upon the death, and resurrection of Jesus, 
 and Paul feels confident that he can establish it upon 
 that. He puts his argument in this way : — 
 
 There is a resurrection. The doctrine of the Phar- 
 isees is true. 
 
 Proof. — Jesus was executed by the Roman soldiers, 
 and seen at different intervals by different persons for 
 a period of forty days after his death. The witnesses 
 who saw him were, — 
 
 1. Peter, who is well known among the Corin- 
 thians, either personally or by reputation. His char- 
 acter for truth and veracity will not be questioned. 
 
 2. He was not only seen by Peter, but the balance 
 of the twelve disciples have all seen him. It is not 
 to be supposed that they could all agree upon a story 
 which was utterly without foundation, when their 
 word upon any other subject would not be questioned ; 
 neither is it probable that they could all be deceived 
 in the very same way. In any event there must be 
 some foundation for it. 
 
 3. He was afterward seen of above five hundred 
 brethren. The difficulties in the way of its being a 
 truth still continue to vanish ; for if those five hun- 
 dred and thirteen individuals had agreed upon a false- 
 hood, there would have been danger of one of them 
 turning traitor and telling of the others, a la some of 
 our Congressmen. Neither can it be supposed that 
 all of them would have been deceived in precisely 
 the same way. The difficulties in the way of such a 
 general deception are a greater tax upon credulity 
 than a belief in the resurrection. 
 
 4. Then there were the seventy who were some- 
 what known among the Corinthians as men of candor 
 
MORE SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES. 155 
 
 and veracity, who were not likely to be deceived upon 
 such a subject, all testifying to the same thing. But 
 as they were well acquainted with the author of the 
 epistles, 
 
 5. Paul announces himself also as a witness. He 
 here stakes his honor upon the resurrection of Jesus. 
 
 I might add that these witnesses had not given in 
 their testimony willingly ; for we have found that they 
 were far from credulity on the subject, some of them 
 even doubting, while others were declaring that he 
 was even then in the room. So it can not be said that 
 their previous teachings or educational bias had any- 
 thing to do in working the matter upon their imagi- 
 nation. Paul, though he had been raised a Pharisee, 
 and should have been glad to have had such a demon- 
 stration of immortality, Was so much prejudiced that 
 he tried to kill all the believers in this doctrine, and 
 he was only convinced himself by the apparition of 
 Jesus. Such testimony as this was the best testimony 
 that could be produced. In the face of this he asks : 
 
 " Now, if Christ be preached that he rose from the 
 dead, how say some among you that there is no resur- 
 rection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection 
 of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ 
 be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your 
 faith is also vain." (Verses 12-14.) 
 
 The foundation of their faith being based on the 
 resurrection, everything pertaining to the future 
 hinged on the resurrection of Jesus. If there was 
 no resurrection from the dead, the resurrection of Je- 
 sus was of no theoretical value, and all the preaching 
 of the apostles, and the persecutions endured by the 
 disciples, were vain. There was no use for such a 
 
156 THE HEREAFTER. 
 
 faith. It was all vain. And this is not all. Paul 
 continues : — 
 
 " Yea, and we are found false witnesses for God ; 
 because we have testified of God that he raised up 
 Christ ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead 
 rise not." (Verse 15.) 
 
 But why should they testify to such a falsehood as 
 this, when they could expect no compensation other 
 than persecution ending in death for it? But he con- 
 tinues : — 
 
 " For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; 
 and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are 
 yet in your sins. Then they which are fallen asleep 
 in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have 
 hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But 
 now is Christ risen and become the first fruits of them 
 that slept." (Verses 16-20.) 
 
 Thus it is seen that Paul stakes the whole subject 
 on the resurrection of Jesus, and this he has fully 
 demonstrated elsewhere to be a spiritual resurrection. 
 After proving that there will be a resurrection, he 
 proceeds to show that our present bodies never can be 
 raised, but that " there is a spiritual body," a " house 
 not made with hands," which will outlive the old worn- 
 out casket of the present stage of existence. That 
 the readers as well as the writer of this may so live 
 in this world as to build up a strong and healthy 
 resurrection-body, — a house in which, we will not be 
 ashamed to dwell in The Hereafter, — is my earnest 
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