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 [Copyrighted 1902, by the Star Publishing Co.] 
 
SKETCH OF PROF. DRUMMOND. 
 
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 Henry Drumtnond, a Scotch Presbyterian preacher 
 and eminent writer, was born in Stirling, Scotland, 
 Aug. 17, 1851. He graduated at Edinburg University, 
 and also from the Free Church Divinity School. He won 
 Special distinction in the world of letters by writing the 
 following books, viz. "Natural Law in the Spiritual 
 World." "The Ascent of Man." and "The Greatest Thing 
 in the World." He was considered by many of his 
 church friends as rather too liberal to be sound in ortho- 
 
 &. 
 
 doxy. He came to America and assisted at the Sum- 
 mer schools of D. L. Moody at Northfield, Mass. , He 
 died in Tunbridge Wells, England, Mar. 11, 1897. 
 
 HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN. 
 
 When Mrs, Carolinn E. S. Twing was in Springfield, 
 in Nov. 1901, I asked her to allow spirit Samuel Bowles 
 to use her hand to write an account of the reception of 
 President McKinley in the spirit world. 
 
 Mr. Bowles wrote as follows. "I am sorry to say 
 that upon such a short notice I cannot give anything 
 to the public that I desire. I have perhaps been making 
 a rash promise. Henry Drummond, since his coming 
 over here, has been pleading with me to help him to get 
 at this woman's hand, so he can write a few chapters. 
 
 He says he wants to write from what he knows now. 
 His little book would make a stir in many circles where 
 he ctnDtVed amj i^s:weil kirofviU He has come out bright- 
 er: with «thW\Jcio54rfjii intftlieptrof his in the short time 
 he has been here, than ever before." 
 
 'Ic^CQr^P^I^^V.T^ing'yld^ed to the request, and 
 in e fim5«si*fc(ih^s*6btdme'd'the manuscript which now ap- 
 pears in print. Mr. Drummond realizes that the book 
 lacks in a degree, the mental vigor and rhetorical finish 
 of his earthly writings, but he says the difficulty of trans- 
 mitting his thought through a foreign channel is great. 
 Therefore, the reader should make allowance for the dis- 
 crepancy . 
 
 Springfield, Mass. H. A. Budington. 
 
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 HENRY DRUMMOND IN SPIRIT LIFE. 
 
 HOW LIFE LOOKS TO HIM NOW. 
 
 When a man passes into the sphere of life a lit- 
 tle beyond the physical, with preconceived ideas 
 that he has by his researches and earnest prayers, 
 harmonized the unnatural with the natural, he is 
 bound to see many an idol of thought prove clay, 
 and many a theory fall to the ground as useless as 
 the dreams of other days. 
 
 In my earthly experience, I thought I had by 
 the research which shortened my days on earth, 
 solved the meaning of life, and that I could harmo- 
 nize it with the religious thought of the day. 
 
 I tried to accept the story of creation as record- 
 ed in the Christian Scriptures, as a fact. I tried to 
 make it seem to me the most natural method. I 
 studied the best writings of my age with a strong 
 thirst for knowledge. When I perceived that the 
 scientists were disagreeing among themselves, I was 
 pleased. 
 
 The researches of Tyndall, Bastian and others, 
 to verify the theory that life could not be extin- 
 guished, were of deep interest to me, for it meant 
 immortal life. But when the theory was announced 
 that life always had existed — never had a beginning, 
 it shook my belief in the Genesis of the Scriptures, 
 a doubt 1 would not have dared to express publicly. 
 
 The atoms which produce manifest life have 
 been proven to be fire proof by the continuous ex- 
 periments of the students in Biology. 
 
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 I stand upon the spirit side to-day, ready to 
 concede that we have no conception, from any data 
 given, of any beginning of life : and if we reject the 
 Scripture story of the formation of the earth and 
 rest upon the more reasonable theory of the attrac- 
 tion of atoms, we have 
 
 NO SIX DAYS' CREATION ! NO FALL OF MAN ! 
 NO QUARREL IN HEAVEN ! 
 
 If previous to the time these events are said to 
 have occurred, there had passed countless years, and 
 every atom been busy in the great evolutions of at- 
 traction, in its different phases of world-building, 
 there was no need of the sacrifice of any man for 
 the salvation of the world. Therefore my thought 
 of trying to make one man a ^sacrifice — a redeemer 
 for all the people of earth and trying to sustain the 
 atonement upon a natural and spiritual basis com- 
 bined, was faulty in the extreme. 
 
 But my head was bent or dented that way. 
 The conditions around me, dwarfed one side of my 
 mind and brought into strong light, the other side. 
 
 To the keen student of human nature, unbi- 
 ased by creeds, this must be apparent. I had a 
 desire for mental growth, and yet the stubbornness 
 of my nature compelled me to strive vigorously to 
 compel others to see that science and religion should 
 work hand in han d. 
 
 If you people who have listened to my expressed 
 thought and read my books, could have really known 
 my inner life, you would have been surprised at the 
 conflict. Reason made such strong demands. It 
 pointed to the straight path, while tradition had 
 such a hold upon me as to mar my soul and chain 
 
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 me. Oh ! how I wrestled with this subject ! One 
 side of me would tell me I was honest, and that it 
 was the highest thought I was giving to the people, 
 while the other side would speak to me with in- 
 tense earnestness, "You are debasing yourself — you 
 are limiting law — you are limiting the power of 
 what you supposed to be God ! You do not under- 
 stand the limitless law ! and yet you are posing as a 
 teacher of the truth. By preaching Jesus as the 
 son of the God of the Universe, you violate the virtue 
 of womanhood. You are emphasizing the tradition 
 which does not recognize human responsibility as a 
 factor, in ceasing to do evil and striving to do good. 
 You are belittling yourself as a man, by continuing 
 to foist upon the world, a story which had its origin 
 in ignorance and has done more to send the people 
 of earth to a hell of their own making, than any 
 legend which has ever come to an ignorant world." 
 
 Thus would I scourge myself — thus would the 
 hours drag along, while with unfaith haunting me, 
 I would try to stimulate faith. Is it any wonder 
 that the frail body gave out under these contend- 
 ing forces? Is it any wonder, that with my life 
 work in some fields only begun, the material body 
 failed to endure the lashing of the spiritual. 
 
 I had written facts, when I had only the vagu- 
 est and most childish dream of them. I had ex- 
 tolled as a God, a character who was the 
 
 MOST TENDER, KIND AND BEAUTIFUL 
 
 but also the most unscientific of mankind ! 
 
 1 had exalted moments when the wise men upon 
 the desert, seemed so real to me that I could almost 
 see the star shining — I could almost feel myself 
 
kneeling with them upon the sands, praying for the 
 way to the Messiah to be shown to me. Then I 
 looked at the world I lived in, at the men, women and 
 children, who believed this story — sought under its 
 shelter to be forgiven for acts which they need not 
 have committed — who made it the cloak for much 
 that was vile, and then knelt and prayed for for- 
 giveness aud arose, believing they were forgiven ! 
 
 Now I thank the wisest for their doubts. They 
 have lessened my disappointment — they have made 
 me more eager for the new study of people and 
 of worlds. The doubting side of my mind has been 
 my strength and my salvation. 
 
 NOW WHEN I SEE "THE WAY, AND THE TRUTH, 
 AND THE LIFE," 
 
 as far as gl can now penetrate into the limitless, I 
 feel as though ray earth work may have been per- 
 mitted for the purpose of giving me a more earnest 
 desire to change the currents of thought among 
 those with whom I have been so long associated, and 
 to teach them from my new angle of vision. 
 
 There was always something left out, in my 
 efforts there, and I fear there will be in this effort, 
 although I was better versed in spirit intercourse 
 than the public knew. I secretly studied spirit life 
 from the mediums of earth, going as Saul did to the 
 woman of Endor, intending not to be known. In 
 some instances T was found out; in other instances 
 taken Cor what I seemed to be, and heard tales which 
 would be no addition to those of the Arabian 
 Nights. I bowed my head in shame. Why should 
 I expect great truths, when I sought them under the 
 cover of darkness and silence, which often implied 
 its much as the spoken word in regard to my identity. 
 
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 What I wish to give in these few pages, I may 
 not be able to give ; for I may be so crippled that 
 I cannot maintain even the moderate control I have 
 over this psychic to-day. But it is my desire to 
 familiarize myself with this method of communi- 
 cating and see if in the near future, I ma} r not give 
 to the earth people a graphic and extended descrip- 
 tion of what I have experienced here; and my new- 
 ly found home be made more joyous because I 
 have learned of the truth from the school of expe- 
 rience. 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
 PAPER SECOND. 
 
 I do not expect in the brief time allotted me, to 
 to write consecutively or clearly, but it will be a 
 chance to practice for some better* and more con- 
 densed work. The habit of rambling in writing is 
 detrimental, whatever kernels of sense there may be 
 in it. 
 
 i used to consider a moral religion as the 
 highest phase of atheism, and the greatest 
 enemy to Christianity. 
 
 But looking at it from this point of view, plac- 
 ing mankind as responsible for the good or bad ac- 
 tions of their lives, save when environment and per- 
 haps heredity come in, I look upon all efforts to 
 teach the necessity of self-centering power as one of 
 the essentials for humanity. The escape from men- 
 tal and physical ailments must be effected by proper 
 education. Environment must be studied and over- 
 come. The soul or spirit must have a chance for 
 itself to shine by its inherent light, which light is 
 nten sifted by the spiritual light that shines into it. 
 
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 The process of the growth of a soul over here is 
 peculiar. I have already become an enthusiast upon 
 the subject ; instructed by our good friend, Ml*. 
 Bowles,* I have had better opportunities for enlight- 
 enment than has many a one who has been here 
 
 much longer. 
 
 The Unwelcome Child. 
 
 One case in particular has interested me very 
 much, and that is a child who was not wanted, who 
 by cruel means was deprived of normal mentality, 
 during gestation, yet still lived. The child ate food 
 when it was given and grew up without knowing 
 how to attend to the functions of nature, till he was 
 thirty years old. He then was released by transi- 
 tion. I am told that his soul life was of such a low 
 order — the divine spark so feeble that it took many 
 years in spirit life to develop this idiot to his pres- 
 ent state of enlightenment ; 
 
 When his mother came here and saw him, with 
 scarcely intelligence enough to recognize her, she 
 wept bitter tears and said, "Oh ! my poor boy ! He 
 never committed any sin ! " 
 
 The strong assistant of this weak spirit said, 
 u No, madam, he is suffering for your sin — the sin of 
 intentional murder ! " 
 
 That woman came over here, ignorant of her 
 crime. She died in the full faith of forgiveness for 
 sin, but now finds that she must suffer in spirit life 
 as well as the child she had worse than murdered ; 
 for if the child had come here at its birth, it would 
 have more quickly outgrown these conditions and 
 had better chance for progress. But being so long 
 in a body through which it could not express itself, 
 the greatest wrong to the spirit is made manifest. 
 >See Bowk's Pamphlets at close of book. 
 
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 Will that mother enjoy her crown and sing* in 
 the choruses ? No, indeed ! The music can find no 
 response in her soul ; and she, though poorly pre- 
 pared to teach, will keep company with the awak- 
 ened intellect of her much demented son. This may 
 seem hard, but it is true ! 
 
 The^hestory of the past is bathed in blood 
 because of this remnant of the legends of old. Igno- 
 rance has builded its funeral pyres, and thousands 
 have suffered because they did not believe. Believe! 
 It has sounded down through the centuries. It has 
 been the talisman of every idea of religion — it has 
 excused the criminal and sent the murderer into a 
 kingdom of glory! Believe! It has brought de- 
 struction to empires and proved to be the most cruel 
 scourge ever witnessed in the centuries that are past, 
 Heaven forbid that word shall so stand in the cen- 
 turies to come. 
 
 As I could not harmonize the Biblical story of 
 creation with natural law, neither can I now harmo- 
 nize the vicarious atonement with natural living, 
 The laws of nature are never changed. The strict 
 account goes on. Men and women rise to higher 
 purposes. They leave their dead, unworthy selves 
 behind — but it is all done through their own strug- 
 gles for the light', and also by the aid of good spirits. 
 I do not repudiate the thought of Jesus, the 
 helper and the teacher. I do not doubt his exist- 
 ence, but I am convinced that the greatest claims 
 made for him, were made by others, and not by him- 
 self. I love to think of him as one overshadowed by 
 good spirits, for high and holy purposes — as one de- 
 
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 signed for a work which was to be done in his day — 
 a work which was simple, sweet, full of spiritual life, 
 a work that was saving as j 7 our work is saving, 
 when you convince a bowed-down soul of its own, 
 inherent power. 
 
 There are natures in these days, which are like 
 unto his. It lias been my privilege to meet self- 
 denying souls 
 
 WHO HAVE BEEN SAVIORS TO MANY ! 
 
 I can understand them better now. I called them 
 ambitionless persons. I am sorry I did. Their am- 
 bition was not for the loaves and fishes. It was for 
 the power which they could throw over souls to lead 
 them higher. Sometimes these consecrated souls 
 have made me wonder. I remember many, and es- 
 pecially one whose life stands out in bold relief be- 
 side the so-called charities. 
 
 The woman who gave secretly. 
 
 When asked to help the church, she said she 
 would like to, but could not. It was known she was 
 receiving a good salary and alone. No one was in- 
 vited to her home. She kepr aloof from those in the 
 building, whose attic she occupied. She was dis- 
 trusted — few knew her name. But regularly, as 
 she received her monthly salary, sh£ would save out 
 as much as would meet her actual needs, and then 
 go forth to do good with the rest. She would find 
 want and suffering and relieve it. After her day's 
 labor, she would clean up rooms where sick ones lay 
 and make them comfortable with what she had. If 
 her name was asked, she would say, "No matter 
 what it is; I am trying to do a little good." 
 
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 These facts came out after her death. t She died 
 alone in a room with bare floor and scant furniture. 
 Among her few belongings was enough saved to pay 
 her funeral expenses. I have met her here, and I 
 have learned her story — not from herself, but from 
 those she had blessed. I asked one woman whose 
 life she had blessed in trouble. 
 
 "Did she talk religion to you ?" 
 
 "Oh ! no; she just cleaned me up and helped 
 my children — she just worked religion ! " 
 
 Her charity counts for more here than the chari- 
 ty of many of those who have given great gifts and 
 caused them to be widely heralded. 
 
 In talking with this friend, who is much hap- 
 pier than I am, I asked her, "Were you a real Chris- 
 tian ? Did you believe your soul was saved through 
 Christ ? " 
 
 "Well, to tell the truth, " answered she, "I nev- 
 er thought much about it. I just did my best and 
 didn't try to build up a hill to frighten any one. " 
 
 Dear, simple soul ! She has the mysteries of 
 Godliness so much entwined in her nature, that she 
 does not try to analyze her attitude toward the di- 
 viner part of life. She lets it come to her and in 
 doing so, accepts the highest results of her own liv- 
 ing. 
 
 Talk as we may, preach as the clergy have to 
 preach, the real truth stands out — that it is not in 
 spirit life we become souls, but we are souls ; and 
 we must so live on earth as to develop the better part. 
 
 This acknowledgment is so directly opposite 
 
 TO MY EARTPHLY REACHINGS AND WRITINGS THAT 
 
 the world will scarcely believe I ever thought when 
 
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 on earth, as is above stated. But half the clergy- 
 men of this age are tired of the old stories, so per- 
 sistently told, and hail with delight, anything which 
 opens a new avenue of thought. 
 
 I shall strive with my whole soul to help my 
 brothers to tell the truth, and express their honest 
 convictions. The time was never more ripe than 
 now, for real honesty of purpose. The world never 
 needed truth more than it needs it to-day. Not one 
 with any thinking capacity, but is ashamed of bond- 
 age. He feels the incoming tide which could take him 
 out from his conservative shelter to join the broad- 
 minded and noble men of his time : but the poverty- 
 crippled ones are selling out their wares ; keeping 
 their intellects in a rut and trampling upon them, for 
 the sake of the money which is needed, or for the 
 preservation of their reputations for soundness of 
 doctrine. The churches contain many who 
 
 BELIEVE NOT WHAT THEY HEAR, 
 
 but the church gives them a popular social or busi- 
 ness position. 
 
 I mourn as over a star of hope died out, when 
 I look upon these scenes, for I would claim for im- 
 mortal souls, freedom, purity of thought and right- 
 eousness of action. 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
PAPER THIRD. 
 
 Since the question of total depravity has been 
 fully settled in my mind, I have been looking on 
 both sides of the dividing line, called death, for the 
 solution of some problems. 
 
 » Why should two infants, born under the same 
 conditions or seemingly so, appear about the same 
 through their younger years, nursing the same 
 mother, fed from the same table, seeming to receive 
 equal kindness and equal punishments for offences, 
 go such different roads in life — one to the pulpit and 
 the other, perhaps to the gallows ? 
 
 If one is totally depraved, the other would be 
 also. Neither have been subject in youth, to any 
 special religious excitement, but each takes his own 
 course. Yet the one is wicked, the other a shining 
 light for good. 
 
 I have come to this conclusion — that which 
 dwarfs, that which induces such a downward ten- 
 
 DENCY, COMES FROM ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT ; 
 
 If the skull could shape itself according to the 
 building up or shrinkage of brain cells, the effect 
 would be very grotesque ! There would be flat- 
 headed people — people with heads flat on the back 
 side — people whose foreheads would sink in, in some 
 places and bulge out in others. I am not sure if 
 there were these visible signs, it might not be better 
 for the race, because these signs might make a race 
 of students. It might compel each father and 
 mother to acquire a correct understanding of their 
 
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 children. Should one organ be wanting, they could 
 by the process of cell building, by encouraging the 
 development of proper tastes and desires, remedy 
 that deficiency. 
 
 I would not wish to change nature's laws, but I 
 would emphasize the necessity of studying head for- 
 mations and such characteristics as surely point to a 
 development of those faculties found wanting. One 
 child is generous — the other is stingy and selfish. 
 The too generous one should be taught moderation; 
 the selfish one should be taught the pleasure of giv- 
 ing, until the dwarfed cells of generosity blossom 
 out like a flower. 
 
 The one who goes to the pulpit has the faculty 
 of self-esteem encouraged. He is told he must be 
 educated for the Lord's work, because it is the Lord's 
 will. He early sees his power over his own people, 
 and exercises it over other people. Very magnetic 
 he becomes. 
 
 The less fortunate one is slow in his studies. 
 He cares not for any form of religion. He takes to 
 fishing. In seeing the rushing brook, his mind dwells 
 upon what could be utilized from water power. His 
 desire to stud) r in that line is quenched. . Some one 
 must work on the farm — the ploughing and the 
 reaping must go on. So the unwilling worker can 
 only dream of freedom. His early ambition for me- 
 chanics is crushed. He lives a life of drudgery, jeal- 
 ous of others, and believing he is misunderstood. 
 Drink and its associate evils lead to worse evils, un- 
 til robbery, murder and death by law, closes the 
 story of his earth life. 
 
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 Had his aspirations and proclivities been stud- 
 ied as was his brother's — the lowest in his nature, 
 arrested and the right brought to the front, he might 
 have been one who would have greatly benefitted 
 the world by his inventions and moved it much more 
 than his brother-preaeher moved it by his thought. 
 
 The above only illustrates how parents may be 
 in a measure, the creators of the bodies of their child- 
 ren, and with proper knowledge may shape the des- 
 tinies of their children. 
 
 Oh ! blind world ! oh ! fated people ! if you re- 
 fuse to understand your own power ! 
 
 The assertion sometimes made by speakers — "I 
 am Grod ! " does not fall very far short of the truth ; 
 for if there was a personal being in the form of a 
 man, called God, he could not create from the im- 
 pure depths of human lives, purity, unless there was 
 a dating back, which would affect the offspring. 
 
 Modern science and ingenuity are doing much 
 to bring out of darkened lives, the intelligence that 
 has been hidden in the brain. The deaf senses, the 
 blind see by an inner sense — the dumb speak. The 
 possibilities of a soul, however dwarfed by disease 
 or heredity, is great. 
 
 If these improvements can be accomplished, 
 how probable it is that the most degenerate can be 
 reached. The arrested senses can be put into work- 
 ing order. The divine in the human and the love 
 of overcoming difficulties will bring noble results. 
 
 The models of home life 
 will be those persons who are greater than their pas- 
 sions. No child will be born unless there is a place 
 for it. The parents will give to the coming child 
 a reception worthy of its destiny. 
 
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 * The greatest overproduction I know of is 
 
 that of human beings ; this overproduction is caus- 
 ing wars and famines. It is causing destruction 
 and death. There will never be a healthy civiliza- 
 tion- until men and women are cognizant of this 
 curse and regulate the conception of offspring. 
 
 Men will go on singing the Star Spangled Ban- 
 ner and Rule Brittannia, and meet death in battle. 
 The world is compassed about by the arrested devel- 
 opment of its people. 
 
 You may ask, whj r , all at once, I feel this so 
 deeply — why after, to the world's way of thinking, 
 my usefulness is over, I am so emphatic upon this 
 subject. It is because 
 
 I HAVE ELIMINATED FROM MY FAITH ALL THOUGHT 
 OF OUTSIDE POWER IN SALVATION. 
 
 I see a world of mortals, holding on to threads 
 so slender that an infant's fingers might rend them 
 asunder. My sole thought now is to correct that 
 which I mistakenly gave to the earth people as a great 
 truth. I am living over the lives of my cult. I am ex- 
 periencing what they have experienced in spirit life, 
 but so few of us can break the silence. 
 
 *Bishop Haven rejoices in having broken 
 
 the silence. Some others have found a way to reach 
 the people of earth through mediums. But we have 
 not enough true mediums. We want thousands of 
 them to voice or write these truths. We need them 
 in every department of life. 
 
 • See advertisement at close of this book. 
 
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 I shall never challenge any one's right to teach 
 as he thinks best, but I shall be glad when the time 
 comes, that there shall be in 
 
 EVERY PULPIT A PREACHER WHO SAYS 
 
 he is led by wise spirits in his teachings, and who 
 really is so led This lack of spirit power in the pul- 
 pit is one great cause of the paralj 7 zed condition of 
 the people — the one great cause of the arrest of the 
 desire to learn about spiritual things except in the 
 old hereditary way. 
 
 The lurid shade of the Catholic Church 
 shows a mass of men and women whose develop- 
 ment of conscience or of aspiration is nearly as thor- 
 oughly arrested as though no such faculty ever ex- 
 isted. They are the people who furnish the money, 
 but the priest deals out the thought. Thus far and 
 no farther is the idea. 
 
 The time is ripe for new lessons. 
 Every avenue needs to be searched thoroughly ; 
 for when the searchlight of truth is turned on them, 
 their secrets are read. The # Pope is dying — a man 
 guilty of much, yet, his conscience is almost at rest, 
 because he has built up a belief that sin cannot 
 touch him. Oh ! the awakening ! 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
 * Leo XIII. 
 
PAPER FOURTH. 
 
 I think I once said or wrote, (and I tried to 
 emphasize it in my life,) that any principle which 
 secures the safety of the individual, without person- 
 al effort, is disastrous to the moral character. 
 
 I believe more earnestly now than ever, in 
 that thought. In fact, I know that whatever comes 
 to a life must be earned by that life. The parasite 
 should have no place ; for he does not make a place 
 for himself — he only clings. 
 
 What shall the work be? It must be growth, 
 spiritual growth, founded upon intelligence — that 
 growth must be the result of earnest action. It is on- 
 ly by the exercise of any sense that we retain and 
 improve that sense. If we always lived in the dark 
 we should have no use for our eyes. If we accus- 
 tomed ourselves to one kind of food, our taste for 
 other foods would be atrophied. < If we became so 
 indolent that this indolence would bring on paralytic 
 tendencies, we should lose our sense of feeling. 
 
 So it is with the spiritual. People do not grow 
 in spirit because a certain belief is drilled into them 
 and it is heresy to accept any other belief. I am 
 learning the fate of the parasite, and of the one-idea 
 man here. I perceive there has been a great crip- 
 pling of the spirit. 
 
 The cramped feet of a Chinese girl may be re- 
 lieved by wearing larger shoes; but her feet will 
 not enlarge to their normal size. 
 
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 The cramped mind may think it is breaking the 
 barriers ; but some sort of chain will remain. He 
 may come out before the world and acknowledge his 
 wrong — he may say he has broken the fetters, in 
 some way he will find himself a bigot. It is a fact, 
 recognized in nature that scars remain. 
 
 If this be true, is there not a great need for more 
 earnest work? I notice among your people, (Spirit- 
 ualists) the scientific, the learned and the spiritual- 
 minded — and also the unscientific, the unlearned 
 and the carnal-minded. I have looked over your as- 
 semblies and noticed that more than half the people 
 
 WERE GRAY-HKADED ! WHERE ARE THE YOUNG ? 
 
 Your people are enthusiasts for the truth to be 
 wide-spread. You instruct your older people and 
 set your younger people to dancing ? Is there not 
 enough in the great truths of spirit life and spirit 
 communion to arrest the attention of the young 
 when rightly presented? 1 should say there is! 
 
 I have no right, as a comparative outsider, one 
 who only bungled with the spiritual and scientific, 
 to pose as a mentor to you of earth. So if my 
 zeal is greater than my wisdom, forgive me. It is 
 something to awake to yourself — to feel your power 
 so circumscribed that you cannot understand the 
 way, and yet long for an avenue through which to 
 give the light to others. I claim that there should 
 be more of a chance for the denizens of spirit life to 
 reach the earth. You need us and we need you. 
 
 I shall not let any opportunity pass. I shall 
 strive to do my duty. I am following in the line of 
 those who have passed to spirit life before me. I am 
 
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 trying to study, with a greater degree of freedom, 
 
 the crooked ways of the crippled intellect. 
 
 I AM SHOCKED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE DIS- 
 APPOINTED AND THE IGNORANT! 
 
 I feel more and more the intense desire and willing- 
 ness of the highest teachers, to aid you of earth ; 
 yet how these teachers have been repulsed ! When 
 I can reach the earth as a teacher, will the people 
 heed me ? But few of them will listen. It will be 
 giving out pearls to those who do not appreciate 
 pearls. 
 
 The Disappointed. 
 
 I have been so impressed with the disappointed, 
 those who expected so much for nothing, that I 
 want to cry aloud to the world — Beware! beware! 
 Build on no foundation which you have not laid 
 yourself — rear no structure, of which your whole 
 life is not a component part. 
 
 Teach the children and the adults that 
 Jesus was noble — a character, moulded from 
 self sacrifice — but that around him has been placed, 
 embellishments from the men of the dark ages. He 
 recognized immortal life, as do you. He ascended 
 into the spiritual wojld; so will you. He returned 
 to earth — so may you. He showed himself to the 
 people. All this you may do. But men in after 
 years put false words into his mouth — words which 
 he never said. Controlled by higher spirits, he 
 taught the lessons of the past, 
 
 BUT HE DID NOT TEACH ALL THAT IT WAS 
 CLAIMED HE DID. 
 
 They made him take to himself much more than he 
 ever claimed, and made the Christian world believe 
 
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 it. His life was only a drop in the sea, compared to 
 the history that has come down to you. 
 
 But superstition must have full sway. Priests, 
 emperors and kings must have some power to enable 
 them to crush people, who did not follow their de- 
 crees. Jesus was the most powerful of any seer of 
 which they knew, and so the lot fell upon him. I 
 expect to see him sometime. I thought I sought 
 and loved the God-man when on earth. Now I 
 shall search and find the real Jesus, and then tell 
 the world of mortals how I find him. It will come 
 in time. I am seeking after the human Nazarene. 
 
 In all my researches I have never been quite 
 satisfied, and 1 have in the past startled myself by 
 finding out that I had read more of the works of 
 liberal minds than of those written by men of creeds. 
 There was no chance for growth in the latter. Their 
 affirmation that "it was so," must be sufficient. To 
 indulge in curiosity or reason was a sin. 
 
 How Mr. Drummond advanced. 
 
 I attribute to Huxley, Spencer, Tyndall and 
 many of the Spiritualist writers, my partial enfran- 
 chisment from the yoke of bondage. I thought I was 
 doing the world good by studying these authors, so 
 I could refute their arguments. I was really clinch- 
 ing them by bringing into juxtaposition my own 
 weak ones, gleaned from the one-sided histories and 
 the one-sided experiences of the past. 
 
 When I came to spirit life, I eagerly sought foi 
 bishops and men of high repute in the church, men 
 whom I had almost worshipped as oracles of wisdom 
 I found them all humble students in the school of a 
 natural religion, with facts only as prime factors. 
 
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 I am striving more earnestly than ever to enlarge my 
 sphere of action. 
 
 I AM ASTONISHED TO FIND MYSELF SO HUMAN, 
 
 to find some days my greatest desires are to reach 
 my own— to pour into their ears, the real truth — 
 to let them know my great love. 
 
 I beg pardon for having been so much the student 
 so little the lover. I have a strong desire to show 
 myself where they dwell and love me- — to have them 
 say, u He is our own"-— to have them feel that no 
 transfiguration scene has taken place, which has not 
 made me more to those of earth than ever. Oh! I 
 want them to realize that the new song is of emancipa- 
 tion and home! 
 
 Now let me ask that every one who reads these 
 words, may regard them as a warning or as an invi- 
 tation to more divine living. Begin now! Study 
 your own powers. You grow out of yourselves. 
 Your spark divine must be found and brought into . 
 the light. Settle this in your thought ! 
 
 Spirit communion is and always has been 
 
 A FACT ! 
 
 If it is a fact, it must have a meaning. It has a 
 meaning — that meaning must touch other souls and 
 induce them to cease their parasitical clinging to 
 the unsubstantial and to love to revel in the power 
 which is theirs and in the work they can do. 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
PAPER FIFTH. 
 
 Lust for Gold. Hate. 
 
 There are two revolutions immanent in the at- 
 mosphere — the one engendered by lust for gold 
 without work — the other, engendered by deadly 
 hate, which has lately found expression in your 
 nation.* 
 
 There is also a spiritual revolution behind — one 
 which has been slow of action, but will be sure at 
 last. This great power of the spirit has been blinded 
 upon one side by the despotism of the church and 
 upon the other side, by the despotism of the senses. 
 This power is slowly and silently working its way 
 through the present civilization. It has struck no 
 blows — broken no laws — nothing good is destroyed — 
 but the unreal and the harmful must pass away. 
 This spiritual power speaks from human lips-" where- 
 as I was once blind, I now see" 
 
 Truth always brings destruction in its wake. It 
 kindles new fires to burn old idols. " It changes the 
 currents in such a degree that inharmonies occur 
 between those who have in the past, loved each 
 other. It brings about a difference in the ways of 
 living. 
 
 Passions dethroned. Reason holds sway. 
 Could you, who are not sensitive to this spiritual 
 revolution, realize the struggle that is going on in 
 the minds of the truly good and sensitive, your 
 
 * Assassination of President McKinley. 
 
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 criticisms would fall as lightly as the leaves of Au- 
 tumn. You would not deem that you were worthy 
 to sit in the shadow of their presence. With your 
 material shell broken, you would feel storm-swept 
 and self-accused at your former harsh judgments. 
 
 This spiritual revolution must go on. Those 
 who defy it will feel its power. Their feeble resist- 
 ance will not prevent them from falling into line, or 
 from going in other directions, which will lead them 
 to that spiritual life, where all eyes will be opened. 
 
 I AM AT PEACE ABOUT THIS SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION. 
 
 I see its workings, and even though it may be a 
 change in many ways to some people, even causing 
 them to pass from the mortal state, yet I feel at rest. 
 
 But I am not at rest when I look into the king- 
 dom of Hate — the worst monarch who ever de- 
 throned a rival, whether this hate abides in the 
 hearts of ruler or people, whether it finds its way into 
 organizations, or lurks in the soul of individuals — 
 It is the canker of the soul ! 
 
 This hate withers and destroys all kindly 
 thoughts. Once harbored, no matter how just the 
 hate may be, it finds its way to other hearts. The 
 atmosphere of hate is deadly. If one gives it place, 
 it crowds out the love of friends. It is as catching 
 as a slow, putrid disease, and as fatal to life's 
 beauty. It is fatal to truth. It gives a distorted 
 view. It robs life of happiness. When at last the 
 spirit is freed from its earthly environment, hate has 
 its place in the spiritual realm. 
 
 Individuals have solaced themselves witli the 
 thought that all is well with them, that the small 
 hatred that dominates their souls, compared to the 
 
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 hatred that dominates their bodies will not matter 
 
 that it will fall away when the beauties of the spir- 
 itual dawn upon them. 
 
 But as the dyspeptic longs for food, yet dreads 
 the pain which must follow any indulgence in that 
 which he craves, so does the transplanted immortal 
 gaze upon the beauties all around him, and say "It 
 is not for me" It is not in my life. I can see, but 
 I cannot enjoy ; I can hear, but I cannot appreciate ! 
 
 And so the hungry souls who carry hatred in 
 earth life and bring it over here, must serve a long 
 apprenticeship before they can really enjoy and ap- 
 preciate the beauties of this upper world. 
 
 I warn you, Oh ! friends, whom I have but a 
 short time, preceded to this life, to examine your- 
 selves. If a physician should give you a critical 
 examination and should say, "You have tuberculo- 
 sis, you may be helped if at once you realize your 
 danger and take proper remedies ; but you, your- 
 self must work out your physical salvation by right 
 living and right remedies," you should heed him. 
 
 The patient with the spiritual ailment, does not 
 need the diagnosis of a physician or the knife of a 
 surgeon. He must heal himself. There can be no 
 person so degraded, no act so base as to deserve the 
 unrelenting hatred of an immortal soul. You ma\ r 
 look at your grievances, and say, "How I have suf- 
 fered ! how my life has been wrecked by this man or 
 woman ! " 
 
 Yet upon self-examination, you will find that 
 the greatest wrecks manifest on earth, are those you 
 have allowed to come to yourself. You do not 
 know how much you have been to blame — you do 
 
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 not understand how much there was in your own 
 conduct or thought that was wrong. You furnished 
 the kindling wood while on earth, to start the fires 
 of hatred. So, friends, examine yourselves and do 
 not let the fatal canker enter within your souls. 
 
 This subject has been graphically brought to my 
 notice since I have been in spirit life. I thank heav- 
 en I had no hate to contend with, and but little big- 
 otry. I was more free than I had allowed the 
 world to know ; and for that reason I found earth 
 life lacked something, because I did not express the 
 whole of my thought, and spirit life has had the 
 same lack. 
 
 But I brought no hate nor envy with me. Mon- 
 ey was a means to an end. If it served me much or 
 little, I was thankful. 
 
 The woman who hated. 
 
 My attention was arrested upon my arrival here 
 by one of the most beautiful, yet saddest-looking 
 women I ever saw. She seldom uttered a word, but 
 kept watching with hungry eyes, from a distance, 
 a noble, happy-looking man. Often he would be- 
 stow a sweet smile and beckon her to come to him. 
 But she would shake her head, mournfully and 
 strive to keep in the shadow of some shrubbery, 
 where she could view him without attracting the no- 
 tice of others by her surveillance. 
 
 At last I made an effort to gain her attention. 
 It was some time before I succeeded. I remarked 
 to her upon the beauty of the scene. 
 
 "I do not see it so," she answered. "It seems 
 to me like a wilderness — a wild wilderness ! " 
 
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 Astonished, I questioned her further. "Why 
 is this so? You cannot, upon this side of life, have 
 such a perturbed sense as to call all this beauty, a 
 wilderness ! a desert plain ! " 
 
 "It is all in my soul, M said she, "all my in own 
 atmosphere, I know it is so, but I have not strength 
 to cast it aside. Do you see that noble-looking man 
 over by the fountain wall? In former days, on earth 
 I loved him. His voice was music and his presence 
 a blessing. We were married. Mentally, he was far 
 above me. He could enjoy with me the every day 
 affairs of life — our beautiful home — our well-cooked 
 food. He had Caresses for me and loved me. But 
 it was a giant and a pigmj\ He was not satisfied. 
 In music I was a novice, and could no more appre- 
 ciate much that he loved than a three-old old child 
 could understand Beethoven. He wearied of me, 
 andJI heard of his seeking the society of gifted ones, 
 and of enjoying converse with them. 
 
 When accused by me, he would say, 4 My dear, 
 it is refreshing to talk with cultured women — with 
 those who love art and music, and are students of 
 history and understand science ; but I love my wife.' 
 
 He asked me to invite an especial favorite to 
 our house that I might become acquainted with her. 
 To this I consented. Oh! how I hated her! I hated 
 her for the pleased look she brought to his face — for 
 the music rendered— for the songs she sang — for her 
 ability to interest my king!] 
 
 At last I began to hate him. I hated him so 
 intensely that I refused and repulsed the kiss he tried 
 to give me when I was passing away. I kept on ha- 
 
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 ting him and her after my transition. fc Now he will 
 marry her, ' said my jealous nature, but he did not. 
 They had little in common, except their interest 
 in art, music, &c. After I came here, they drifted 
 apart. Now he has comejhere. Hejis holding out 
 his hand to me. He really loved me and I have a 
 wall of hate to throw down. I cannot touch his 
 hand though it is held out to me. The bitterness 
 that I engendered, rises up before me. I am hungry 
 for the love I cannot accept. Oh ! sir, I did not 
 know it was so grievous a thing to hate! " 
 
 Nor did I, but I have been studying it since and 
 I want to say to your world that hate in the 
 
 SPIRITUAL WORLD IS AKIN TO MURDER ! 
 
 It engenders murder, and often the coward who 
 hates, is only kept from murder by his cowardice. 
 Beware of Hate in all ways. 
 I read Brother Bowles pamphlets while in your 
 life. I often thought, if I were he, I would go into 
 the more scientific phases of the spiritual life than 
 he did, if he really did write these pamphlets.* But 
 I am now impressed to tell the simple stories of this 
 spiritual life. 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
 * See Bowles Pamphlets at close of book. 
 
PAPER SIXTH. 
 
 I cannot yet become used to being what the 
 world calls dead! I see some need of a friend, or 
 some danger. I go to them and implore them to 
 listen. They can hear the chirp of the cricket, but 
 they cannot hear me. I stand before them, clothed 
 in my spiritual garments, as real to myself as 1 ever 
 was in earth life, even more real — for there is a pleas- 
 ure in the reality. Pain is left out, yet they are 
 blind — so blind! I think these lessons should reach 
 your world, first, that they may be able to under- 
 stand us, but comparatively few of those over here 
 care to be understood, except in selfish ways. 
 
 The law of control is studied here as in the olden 
 time, for selfish purposes. "Behold I will put a lying 
 spirit into his mouth," is the cry yet. The lower spirit 
 realm is the same as in the past — but few are seeking 
 for true victory. The'vicious instincts lead them to 
 struggle for mastery. 
 
 Haunting the Saloons. • 
 You have often been told that your saloons have un- 
 seen guests— how those with thirst for drink are 
 striving to use in some way, the sensitives over there, 
 and through them, hope to extract enjoyment. Every 
 demoralizing and hellish place has its spirit hangers 
 on! How can the church sit so idly, feeling it is 
 well if a vicious soul is put out of the way, when the 
 murderer is only unchained by hanging. How can 
 
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 those professing to live a good, spiritual life, look so 
 far above, and yet let the spirits in a prison of the 
 flesh, poor and crushed, go down to death! 
 
 All-around them is hell! 
 Yet they are trying to save people from a future hell! 
 All around them are evidences of these hells, yet 
 they sing a hymn which breathes of martyred ones. 
 
 The tramp of the betrayer and of the betrayed 
 goes past their doors. The sound of the strife pen 
 etrates the walls of their churches. But the stained- 
 glass windows, give only a holy and religious light. 
 The mighty organ is resounding under the touch of 
 one who plays with his fingers, and thinks of the 
 money he may earn, to be spent, perhaps in carnal 
 vice. The deacon admires the fine sermon, but re- 
 solves that in the morning he must turn out from 
 one of his miserable tenements, a family, bankrupt 
 in money and in love, that this excuse for a house 
 may, through a better paying tenant, bring him the 
 money to help to pay the salary of "the brightest 
 clergyman in the city." 
 
 The haughty dames have done their duty. The 
 silk gowns of mothers and daughters rustle out of 
 church, and the young man who is invited to dinner 
 is very eligible. 
 
 OH ! THE SICKENING THOUGHT AS I SEE IT NOW ! 
 
 When I began on earth, to sense some of these con- 
 ditions, when disease, meanness and conflict, im- 
 pelled me to relate some of these wretched scenes — 
 when at times it seemed a cloud came over me and 
 the words spoken and the acts performed, seemed 
 
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 hardly my own, I think I began to realize in a small 
 degree what life meant to the unloved and wretched. 
 I tried so hard and yet my hands seemed empty. 
 The great lesson of what I meant to do, and how it 
 must be done, has come now. I must strive to 
 buckle on the armor and work — work ! Who will 
 receive me? 
 
 Though one were raised from the dead, 
 they will not believe. 
 I have felt this so much since I have been looking 
 into your life as it really is. If you give to the world 
 even these feeble sentences, you will have helped 
 me to accomplish so much. I am glad I dealt 
 more with love than I did with hell — that the work 
 of my brain, which made "Love the greatest thing in 
 the World," has a place in many a home, while my 
 reasoning in an unreasoning way* to link (as I have 
 before written) science and religion, seems to me a 
 failure. 
 
 Do not think you will always find me in this 
 mood. I have many hours of rejoicing — many hours 
 when exalted influences are upon me and I can see 
 the glories beyond. I look upon life as it is, with 
 cheering hope. But we bring our old despondency, 
 our old fears, almost our old aching bodies at times, 
 so strong is the force of imagination even here. 
 Nature in Spirit Life. 
 
 I am studying, in my best moments, the corres- 
 pondence between the two worlds or spheres of be- 
 ing. In nature, the finer part is represented here. 
 Our trees are the spiritual outgrowth of the trees 
 which fell by the woodman's axe, or decayed upon 
 earth. Our flowers are of the part so fine in tex- 
 
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 tare, so delightful in fragrance that these qualities 
 and essences escaped your notice. Our rivers and 
 mountains are spiritual counterparts of rivers and 
 mountains on your earth. The immense craters have 
 a resemblance to the long disputed ones upon the 
 moon. 
 
 I have only as yet entered upon the border of 
 this unknown country, but I shall be, a traveller by 
 and by. I want to sense the spiritual world in all 
 its phases. I do not want to partake of its joys and 
 not see how every planet from which has come a soul 
 to spiritual life, has its counterpart in the great spir- 
 itual realm which is as boundless as the powers 
 that brought together the atoms to compose it. 
 
 Other Planets. 
 I hear talk of wonderful life upon the other planets, 
 and I asked one of the wise ones here what I was 
 deficient in, that would make it difficult for me to 
 visit some of these planets. Said he, "First, words — 
 language to describe — you would see that which 
 could scarcely be described in the language of any 
 nation of earth. If you wished to tell the people of 
 earth what you saw, you would lack a proper vehicle 
 for communication/' 
 
 "But if I did my best/' I persisted. He shrugged 
 his shoulders and passed on. Wise people, whether 
 in the mortal or spiritual world, can be very dis- 
 agreeable. 
 
 I have been flitting from thought to thought in 
 such a way that I do not know as you will deem 
 them worthy of your attention. But suppose 
 there was a country you had loved, wherein those 
 you lov^d dwelled, and all avenues of communica- 
 
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 tion had been shut off and this was the only avenue 
 by which you could reach them, would you not im- 
 prove every opportunit} 7 ? I am told this is the only 
 way. I am impressed that there will never come a 
 time when spiritual intercourse is more needed than 
 now. 
 
 I look forward to a time when I can resume my 
 studies intelligently, with clear brain, anr) with a 
 more perfect knowledge of the laws which obtain 
 here. 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
 PAPER SEVENTH. 
 
 When I think of the past and how hard I la- 
 bored to disprove the truths of the communion of the 
 denizens of earth with those of the spiritual life, I 
 feel like calling myself an idiot. 
 
 I have pleached long and seriously on the ful- 
 fillment of Christ's promises. I have said if Christ 
 had promised all the things it is said he did, and 
 then never came to fulfill them, it would have been 
 as dead, this history of Christ, as any other attempt 
 to play upon the credulity of the people: — after 
 the lapse of a century. But he came back; indeed 
 he showed he had not been far away. He kept his 
 appointments—he showed himself in their midst. The 
 angels of the Most High assisted. him in the work, and 
 he was one with his pupils during their earth life. 
 
 He did not desert his school — not even the fish- 
 ermen on the sea. 
 
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 His materialized form was seen by many — who recog- 
 nized him by his spirit, by his presence, by his voice, 
 when his body was unseen — by brilliant light at 
 noonday did he speak to the people he had left. The 
 innermost history has a halo about it, which cannot 
 be destroyed because of the assurance in that time, 
 of the continuity of life. 
 
 People by millions believe it and a large num- 
 ber bow yet to the shrine of the arisen Christ. The 
 foundation of Christianity is laid upon the reappear- 
 ance of Jesus after death. These appearances of the 
 dead in the past ages strongly endorse the claim 
 made now that the dead return. Why then should 
 limitations be drawn ? 
 
 A man who is going to California will be heard 
 from. It is his duty as well as his privilege to let 
 his home folks know how it fares with him, and he 
 is glad to describe the country of the Golden Gate. 
 And his people believe what he says, even though 
 he may notpiave been considered over correct in his 
 past life. They say, what object would he have in 
 describing such a country ? No benefit could come 
 to him from it. But there may be conditions with 
 some who go to that distant state, by which they 
 may wish to drop out, to be unknown, to hide, to 
 change their names and be forgotten. Such an one 
 may be considered dead for a long time; and at last 
 the touch of conscience may make a demand that he 
 should acquaint his people of his location and his life. 
 
 The man who wrote, emphasized the fact that 
 there was a California. The fact that the other man 
 did not write, that he kept silence, does not disprove 
 the truth of there being such a state. 
 
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 I am fully aware that I am threshing old straw, 
 that you and your cult have gone over it a thousand 
 times, but from my present position, I must^notonly 
 seek for the best thoughts for the future, but I must 
 acknowledge my neglect and blindness. 
 
 Spirits who do not wish to come back. 
 
 I am told that there are those here who have 
 never attempted to send a message to their earth 
 friends. They declare in their stubbornness that 
 there is an "impassable gulf, " They shut the ten- 
 derness out of their lives and declare they have no 
 desire to ever see or know what is going on in the 
 old department of life. They strive to engross them- 
 selves in a preparation for seeing God upon His 
 throne. They are sure the time is coming when they 
 can be on the highest altitude of spiritual triumph. 
 
 In earth life they were called devout, beautiful, 
 almost unapproachable characters. Their friends 
 feared them, rather than loved them. Hence there 
 is no call for them to visit their friends. They are 
 engrossed with the thought of their position upon 
 that day'when they shall experience the wonderful 
 reality of seeing God ! 
 
 They are spiritually insane, and excite the sym- 
 pathy of those who understand spiritual life in its 
 simplicity as well as in its grandeur. The ties of 
 family are not strong with them, and filled with sel- 
 fishness, they do not care to communicate, but are 
 willing to discredit its possibility, with the same 
 vigor they expressed in earth life. 
 
 Do you wonder that we who have faith in the 
 boundless possibilities of this spirit life, look with 
 pity if not with scorn, upon such natures — those un- 
 
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 willing to prove a truth by any act of theirs, yet are 
 strong in their denials, and are ready to abuse those 
 who have the temerity to stand nobly for what they 
 have proven true? 
 
 There are those here who have nothing to recom- 
 mend them to the love of their friends — who though 
 never desiring to send messages, still desire to make 
 uncomfortable those whom they have chilled to the 
 heart when on earth. 
 
 Why promises are not fulfilled. 
 
 There are those here, with love in their hearts, 
 who have promised, if spirit return was true, to come 
 back and say some particular word or sentence mu- 
 tually agreed upon before their transition. They 
 refuse the help of guides, hoping to give the word 
 or sentence direct to the medium ; but when they 
 come in contact with the medium, they forget the 
 word — forget everything in trying to untangle the 
 threads of communication. They have no idea of 
 electric force. They stand mute before what seemed 
 to them easy, when they promised. 
 
 Difficulty of communicating. 
 
 You see with all these difficulties hedging us 
 about, and with all the ignorance and opposition of 
 people on earth, it takes courage to make an attempt 
 at communication. I have tried very hard to reach 
 some of my earth associates. But Henry Drummond 
 is dead to them. His works still live for good or 
 evil, but the man is dead! Heaven hasten the time 
 when this opposition to the truth from both sides of 
 the line shall cease. 
 
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 The indifferent daughter. 
 There are spirits who do not care anything about 
 earth life. Their supposedly high ideals have guided 
 them in other directions, and they have been ab- 
 sorbed with other interests. I have met with a spirit 
 who was much surprised to learn that her mother 
 had passed to spirit life. " Why ! " she said. " Is that 
 really so ? Mamma always was partial to the other 
 children, and doubtless she prefers remaining with 
 them. She never understood high art ! " 
 
 I looked around and owned to myself, that I 
 never did. I have been wondering by what malfor- 
 mation of human or spiritual powers one can become 
 so entirely separated from the mother who bore her. 
 I ask, is it a physical condition or a spiritual malfor- 
 mation, caused by unseen forces? 
 
 Spiritual Adjustment. 
 
 These subjects seem to me as high as heaven, 
 and reach down to the depths ; still I have a sense 
 of peace when I think of all these hard questions. 
 There will cornea time for spiritual adjustment; 
 when these natures shall find their souls. It will be 
 a wonderful discovery ; for in finding their souls, 
 they will come in touch with those they have never 
 known ; although they have required the best that 
 could be given to them from those whom they ought 
 to love. But in fact they have antagonized their 
 servants as well as their dearest relations. 
 Work of a century. 
 
 With these conditions facing me, even in the 
 little time I have been in this life, I can seethe work 
 of a century, and it must begin in earth life. I am 
 discouraged when I see the disinclination of earth 
 
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 people to study into this thought. For I am thrown 
 into that company somewhat ; but I am encouraged 
 when I see the zeal of others, whom I am privileged 
 to visit. 
 
 Every invention has its birth place, 
 
 mostly in the spiritual world. A brain is touched 
 and a desire is thrown upon it to produce something 
 in the electrical field. The human brain goes about 
 it in a clumsy way. The spirit who touched that 
 brain comes around to see if his seed has taken root. 
 If he finds there is anything to work upon, a time 
 of passivity is chosen, and then comes another illu- 
 mination to the inventors brain, and so on, until a 
 valuable aid to the world in light or power is realized. 
 
 The inventor is honest often times, and will say, 
 "I thought it out, " for he does not recognize the 
 touch of the spirit. But the illuminated soul that 
 puts his life into the invention, recognizes and bows 
 to the spirit. 
 
 Oh ! wonderful world of spirit. Teach me "the 
 way, the truth and the life " from a spiritual stand- 
 point ! 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
PAPER EIGHTH. 
 
 Surprises meet me upon every hand. My short 
 experience here has seemed to me like the changing 
 shades of a kaleidoscope. The kings, queens and 
 emperors of the earth give up their kingdoms and 
 empires. The queenly head is no different from that 
 of the patient maids who attended her. 
 Queen Victoria.. 
 
 I have been struck by the appearance of the 
 Royal family of England. The queen and her con- 
 sort, pass by in spirit life, and not as much attention 
 is paid to her, as to a little child that is sparkling 
 with happiness. The child is royal because she is 
 innocent. But the queen, although happy in the 
 presence of her consort, now restored to her, is yet 
 unhappy because of the revelations this life has 
 brought to her. She was a good woman, and meant 
 to be a good queen, but not until her later days did 
 she realize the great scourge of war — the great crime 
 of that, which in itself seemed innocent, but which 
 is not the best policy for wise rulers. War is a great 
 blot upon civilization and has, it seems to me, never 
 been a potent factor in the redemption of anj' race. 
 
 Others will argue differently. They will main- 
 tain that it is the precursor of peace and prosperity ; 
 but they do not see the spirit side, and cannot un- 
 derstand how terrible it is to be even the indirect 
 means of sending thousands of unripe souls into 
 spirit life. 
 
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 I LOOK UPON WAR AS A GREAT CONSUMING ABSCESS 
 UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. 
 
 I fear the chains of physical bondage in a free 
 country, have given place to a misunderstood free- 
 dom, and to other chains which imperil the soul. 
 
 No system is safe, without the thought of the 
 spiritual good of the people. This should be in ad- 
 vance of every other thought. No system of govern- 
 ment is ripe for the results which crown the people 
 with the gifts of heaven, while ignorance is dragging 
 them down to the darkest hell ! 
 i have looked upon the united states of 
 
 America as a great symbol of power. 
 
 I have been glad of the riches and the glory — 
 of the intelligence of the people. But there have 
 been seeds sown that will take root — have already 
 taken root. It has been strown in the great high- 
 way that has started the world, and made men and 
 women weep. It will have to be the watch-word of 
 your nation — to adopt the wisest measures, in order 
 to stamp out the conditions which now menace those 
 in power. 
 
 Fear will do it for a while, but it will only stop 
 to catch its breath, before some other prey is chosen 
 and another victim has been felled. The men who 
 have murdered have not been killed. The man who 
 struck at the heart which only beat in kindness to 
 all, is not feeling as you would think he would feel — 
 
 CZOLGOSZ. 
 
 Away down in the valley, where the light seldom 
 comes, he has been welcomed as a martyr, and not 
 as a traitor ! Degraded souls believe his crime was 
 a great triumph for the people. 
 
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 Anarchy has not been stamped out by taking 
 the life of one of its tools. 
 
 There is silence and denials now, but the leaven 
 of discontent is working, and will work ruin if it 
 can. There is a force from the spirit side which is 
 encouraging this discontent, and making it seem like 
 a crown of glory to the anarchist. Sensitives on the 
 earth side are obsessed by these fiendish spirits, and 
 also strongly incited by sympathizing people on the 
 earth plane. The pressure upon these anarchistic 
 sensitives is sometimes too strong to be resisted. 
 
 W. MCKINLEY. 
 
 I cannot now write much of him who came over to 
 spirit life with the ripeness of his intellect apparent 
 in his life — with the glory of the greatest thing in 
 the world about him, Love ! ! with the ambitions of 
 life laid low — but still so sweet in spirit, so in touch 
 with the highest, that death was not death to him. 
 It is as yet like crossing over a sacred threshold — it 
 is too early to picture this man among men, the 
 statesman — the lover of home. Sometime when the 
 grief has subsided and his successor shall have at- 
 tained the high place in the minds of the people, we 
 know he is worthy to attain, I will, if permitted, 
 write of this new life for the great man of the times. 
 He came into this spiritual life as a student, not 
 as a ruler. Interest in that which is passing with 
 3 ou will naturally chain his attention for sometime, 
 and then heaven will open unto him and he will lis- 
 ten to the call of those gone before. 
 
 AS YOU COULD NOT KILL A MURDERER, SO A MUR- 
 DERER COULD NOT KTLL A PRESIDENT. 
 
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 If my life could be changed ; if all its interests 
 could be focused upon the old plane of life, I would 
 not have it so. I have other ambitions upon this 
 side. In these new fields I must unravel the great 
 skeins of mysteries that are before me — a natural 
 heaven, yet one that brings out the greatest in na- 
 ture — a world so varied, so complete, so changing in 
 its aspects that astonishment is written upon the 
 faces of those who come here. 
 
 There are those who cannot bear the light of 
 this bright day. There are those who want to live 
 in the brightest of the life over here. Oh ! there are 
 scenes I would like to visit, but I am waiting for 
 the further glory to dawn upon me here. I am tak- 
 ing in all the power I can. I am trying to do all the 
 good I can to others. 
 
 When you come here, my friend, you will not 
 come without baggage. You will have to come with 
 that which I wrote of in my last paper, (Hate) if it 
 is in your life, and you will, I fear, feel some as I 
 did about unpacking in my new home. 
 Drtjmmond's Packages. 
 One of my bundles was Self-Esteem — the thought of 
 knowing pretty well what was best, and that a mis- 
 take in my life could not be as bad as a mistake in 
 some other life. Then I had a package which looked 
 small; but it took up room when I unpacked it — 
 that was Sullenness. If I did not scold, I might be 
 called quite forbearing ; but I did not take into con- 
 sideration how the outlet for it, sulkiness was about 
 the same. There was a large package that I tried to 
 get under the table, so the soft curtains would fall 
 over it and heip it, but some corner would stick out. 
 
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 This bundle was Pride. I was a scholar — I wrote 
 books that lived — I had been looked up to in earth 
 life. Why should I not have a prominent place in 
 the kingdom ? 
 
 There was another package, Melancholy. I did 
 not expect to bring this with me, but lo ! it was 
 there ! I thought, as much of it was caused by a 
 bad liver, I should leave it behind ; but it had in 
 some way, darkened my intellect — saddened my 
 soul — made me unfit to preach a gospel which I 
 loved ; for I intended to give out sunshine ; so this 
 melancholy was among the baggage. 
 
 Then Mirthfuhiess came out — this was a picture 
 framed from the jubilant laughter of my childhood 
 and somehow it seemed to give out an echo. There 
 were mauy others, but there was one which I han- 
 dled carefully, for it was the most precious of all. It 
 was done up with all the sacrifices I had ever made- 
 done up with all the tears I had ever shed. It had 
 its place with all the disappointments that had ever 
 been mine; but it shown out brightest of all. 
 That package was Love ! 
 When my baggage was all unpacked and dis- 
 tributed, I felt I had not furnished my room as I 
 wished. I want to put in the place of pride, Pity; 
 and I am learning how. I want to put in the place 
 of melancholy, a thank God of the soul, and have it 
 embossed in letters of light upon my walls. I want 
 to have all the unsightly packages subservient to 
 that one word — Love ! It will then be home in the 
 highest. 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
PAPER NINTH. 
 
 I am bewildered with the possibilities of this 
 spirit life, or its possibilities to those who are wil- 
 ling to take advantage of present conditions. I am 
 striving to get more in touch with the sages and 
 seers. I most always find them as busy as the\ T 
 could have been in earth life, with a large family to 
 support. They can give the new comer but little 
 help or attention, unless they find him one whose 
 brain contains something in harmony with their own 
 — then he is welcome. 
 
 The old idea of heaven was rest — 
 rest in its most complete sense : yet I find, as many a 
 one has found, that rest is harmonious action ; and 
 that the spirit idler is not a happy person. 
 Study a pleasure in spirit life. 
 
 I asked a great student — one who is always 
 studying : "Are you ever tired from this constant 
 mental strain? " 
 
 "No, " he answered, "I am getting rested from 
 my earthly study, which was so much of a strain up- 
 on my nerve force, that I almost forgot humanity. 
 This is bliss! " and he bent his head again to his 
 calculation. 
 
 "What good will it do? "said I, interrupting him. 
 
 " Well, it may not do the world any good, but 
 it comforts me to find a true analysis of the old 
 problems. " 
 
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 Teachers are happy in heaven. 
 
 I asked a sweet-faced woman, with a small ar- 
 my of children around her, which she was directing 
 in the rudiments of heavenly learning ; "Is this not 
 as hard as earthly nursing and teaching?" 
 
 She smilingly said, "Oh ! no, it is heaven ! " 
 
 I asked her how she could enjoy the highest and 
 best and yet be so confined, as she seemed to be with 
 the children ; for I had watched her for a long time. 
 
 She bowed her head reverently; "They are 
 my teachers. 'Except ye become as little children 
 ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' I am 
 searching for the kingdom, " 
 
 The landscape gardener. 
 
 I asked one of the men who were bringing into 
 beautiful harmony some of the extensive lawns sur- 
 rounding heavenly mansions ; "Do you come here 
 to be a landscape gardener and also a working gar- 
 dener ? '' 
 
 " Yes, " he answered ; "If you have a mind to 
 put it so. I am keeping near to nature's heart, in 
 order to help me put out the fires of passion; and 
 then while banishing them, I am building up my 
 heaven. M 
 
 The anti-blight spirit. 
 
 I asked one who was budding grains, "What 
 can you be doing? They need no such things here. " 
 
 "I am studying how to prevent the spreading 
 of contagion by insect life or by blight upon the 
 grains which feed the earth world. If I can impart 
 to those on earth an antidote which can be used in 
 the soil or can be sprayed upon the growing grain, I 
 shall have earned my heaven. " 
 
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 The Magdalene Teacher. 
 
 I saw a woman upon whom it seemed the high- 
 est angels must have smiled, spending her time and 
 giving the sunshine of her life to the betrayed — the 
 wicked — the women who seemed to have but a 
 small spark of humanity. I asked her why she so 
 spent her time, when there was life in its blessed 
 fullness just a little beyond. 
 
 She smiled sadly and said , '? In earth life I 
 walked in these paths, and an angel helped me. I 
 am trying to be worthy of a release from the effects 
 of the bondage of sin. Vi 
 
 The spirit hunter. 
 I looked down to your earth plain and saw a hunter 
 in the woods — a spirit hunter, trying to give ease to 
 a wounded deer, whose red blood colored the cold 
 snow. I saw him turn sadly away as the brown 
 eyes of the animal glazed with death and its spirit 
 looked wonderingly about. 
 
 This spirit hunter came to me, his face as sad as 
 though he had lost a friend, and said ; "You wonder 
 what I was doing down there in the hunting forests 
 of earth. I will tell you. I used to be a hunter ; I 
 killed for pleasure and not because of need of food — 
 I have now found to my [horror, that I have often 
 wounded poor animals and left them, thinking they 
 were dead ; and long hours of suffering have inter- 
 vened before they were released. 
 
 So tender has my heart become, because of my 
 old sin (for it is a sin) that I come often to those 
 wilds and try to help the suffering creatures. " 
 
 "But the poor deer seemed to have a counter- 
 part — a spirit, ^ncL^ou have left it alone. " said 1. 
 
45 
 
 "Yes, I know, " said he, " but it cannot suffer 
 cold nor pain now, and its own kind will now care 
 for it. I must help wounded animals to die as pain- 
 lessly as possible, because of the pain I caused when 
 in earth life; I hunted and killed for pleasure. 
 
 Punishment after death. 
 I marvelled much that justice should point even to 
 the sins against the animal world, and that every 
 person was self punished, as far as I had observed. 
 In every avenue of life, I found it true that there 
 was punishment after death ; but no condemning 
 voice said "Depart ye cursed /" No fires of hell leaped 
 up to reach its victim, no devils laughed in fiendish 
 glee because another soul had comeinto the torment. 
 But as those sick in earth life reach out for 
 healing waters, so do those sick souls reach out for 
 that which will quench their longings and cure their 
 disappointments and give to them the victory. 
 
 COMING INTO THE LIGHT. 
 
 The justice and consistency of this spirit life is 
 a constant marvel to me. Doors swing open, seem- 
 ingly without the touch of a finger, to let through 
 them those who are considering their past and get- 
 ting strong enough to bear more light. The efful- 
 gence confuses them — step by step — hour by hour 
 as they are fitted, the new light comes. They are 
 not always led, but they go as they can bear the 
 happiness, and as their consciences lead them. I 
 have not seen them struggle to invade that realm for 
 which they are not fitted. 
 
 The Progressive Schools. 
 
 Those of earth life, who come over here with- 
 out reparation for wrong deeds, do not seek the so- 
 
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 piety of those who have long been used to the bet- 
 ter life, but are helped to understand themselves, by 
 those who have graduated from the same school, 
 until the teacher moves on and the pupil follows. 
 
 Oh ! the wonderful adjustment of the sjiheres 
 above you ! The sweetest sounds which reach our 
 ears are those most harmonious. But many have to 
 wait until they have developed a sense of harmony. 
 
 In closing these few papers, I do so with regret. 
 I trust through some of your mediums, if not by the 
 hand of this one, my thoughts may take more defi- 
 nite shape — my language be more in harmony with 
 what I have dreamed heaven's language to be. 
 
 Oh ! if I can accomplish what I wish and be 
 believed — if myxoid friends will awaken to the touch 
 of the living spirit of their brother — if I can in any 
 way spread a gospel as sweet and beautiful as 
 heaven itself, among those who need it, I will wel- 
 come any discouragement, if at last I can be victor. 
 
 Henry Drummond. 
 
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 This is the fifth book from spirit Samuel Bowles, writ- 
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 The scenes and life in the upper spheres are of intense 
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 CONTENTS.— A Visit to an Art Gallery in Heaven. Union 
 Meeting of the Clergy. Reception given to the Emancipators by 
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 Interview with Jay Gould. Obstacles to the development of the 
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 at spirit birth. One of the weights which menace oar nation. The 
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 THE PATHWAY OF THE SOUL 
 THROUGH FORM LIFE. 
 
 By an Oriental Spirit. 
 
 PRESENTATION SCENE GIVEN THROUGH CLAIRVOYANCE. 
 POEMS OF THE OCCULT WORLD— THE BUDDHA STAR; THE 
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 This pamphlet treats of that form of rc-enibo.Mtuent which 
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APPEALS TO THE METHODISTS. 
 
 By Gilbert Haven. 
 Late Bishop of the Methodist Church. 
 For sale by the Star Publishing Co., 91 Sherman st, Springfield 
 Mass: Price, 5 cents ; postage, 1 cent. 
 
 This is a sixteen page pamphlet, claiming to be appeals from 
 spirit Bishop Haven, to the Methodists, to avail themselves of the 
 mediumship now existing in their church, and to encourage the 
 development of mediums among their flocks. 
 
 Bishop Haven says the Methodists do wrong to oppose spirit 
 communion. They ought to keep Spiritualism in their church. 
 
 It is a truth and a powerful one, in winning souls to their 
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 GLIMPSES OF HEAVEN. 
 
 By Gilbert Haven. 
 
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 Contents.— What his former ''Appeals" have accomplished- 
 John Wesley— Methodists reading his "Appeals"— Many Ministers 
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 God — Danger from the Catholics— Their Purgatory— A second visit 
 to John Wesley— The Beauty of Spirit Homes, Indescribable— J. G. 
 Blaine— B. F. Butler— A Visit to Liberty Valley— An Address by 
 Thomas Paine— The Wonder of Spirit Communion— Half Developed 
 Mediums should not give Public Seances— Dishonest Materializa- 
 tions—Gentle Rain in Heaven— Schools for teaching Spirit Child- 
 ren how to communicate back to their Parents— A Genuine Mate- 
 rialization Seance. 
 
 THE SCIENCE OF SPIRIT RETURN. 
 By Charles Dawbarn. 
 
 This is a pamphlet containing Mr. Dawbarn's famous lecture 
 on mediumship, or how spirits control mediums to convey accu- 
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 of the method by which the brain of a medium is brought into 
 harmony with the brain of the controlling spirit. The pamphlet 
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 For sale by the Star Publishing Co., 91 Sherman St., Spring- 
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