true nature of Spiritualism as we are to-day. But one morning he came in full of his experiences of the night before, and said:

"There is no use denying the wonders I witnessed last night. I saw a young girl who was not a musician take her seat at a piano, and play accurately some of

while the girl was playing, and then it was dropped to the floor with a jar that would utterly ruin any ordinary piano. I saw this, and no one can convince me I did not see it. How do you account for it? must have been the power of spirits which did all this."

"I agree with you," we replied.

"But you are not a Spiritualist?"
"Most emphatically, no."

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"Then how do you explain these things?" he asked. We then stated our position. "Evil, satanic spirits are working with men wherever they can. They are powerful, unseen angels, who deceive in every con

ceivable manner. They give communications, they personate our dead friends, and perform all kinds of wonders. Our Saviour said of them, 'If it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.' Our only safety is in knowing the danger of these wicked workings and keeping away from them.

"And as to the music, I understand that Satan was a master musician in heaven, and when he takes possession of a human being, he can, through him, excel the music of any human musician.

"As to lifting a piano from the floor, he who is 'prince of the power of the air,' can and will do far greater wonders than this."

The stenographer considered for a moment, and then said, "You are the only opponent of Spiritualism that I have met who could take a reasonable, logical position against its manifestations. I have no argument with which to meet your position.".

Foster, the Medium.

W. S. Chapman relates the following personal experience: A noted medium, named, I think, Charles Foster, appeared in New York City. The character of the manifestations at his seances soon set the city talking, and he was in great demand at private houses, where he would hold sittings for a charge of ten dollars nightly. At that time this sum was considered very exorbitant, and only such a man as Foster could command it. Probably, to-day, he could as well ask one hundred dollars nightly, and easily obtain his fee.

It soon became the proper thing in society to have "Foster" occasionally at the home for an entertainment, and frequently several families would combine.

and have him at each of their houses alternately, once

or twice weekly.

The writer was present at many of these seances, and saw produced many wonderful and startling phe

nomena.

One of the most exciting came as a finale to a sitting of great interest, during which much that was astonishing had occurred.

The seance was held in the richly furnished dining room of a wealthy merchant. While this gentleman made one of the party sitting around the dining table, he had repeatedly refused to take any part in the evening's entertainment, though pressed to do so by Mr. Foster, the medium, who seemed anxious to convince this gentleman of the genuineness of the manifestations.

At last the medium bent his head to one side, as though listening to some unseen being talking to him, and then announced that there was a spirit present, a relative of the gentleman of the house, who was anxious to communicate with him; and that, since that gentleman would not make any effort to learn who he was, there would appear, on the looking-glass over the mantel, a picture that he would recognize.

This glass was a large one, extending over six feet along the length of the great mantel, and about thirty inches in height. The writer sprang up, and with his handkerchief wiped the glass carefully to make certain that there had not been some invisible drawing previously placed there through collusion with the ser

vants.

Almost before the cleaning was finished, a picture of a corner in a city cemetery began to form on the glass,

with a small obelisk of white marble in the foreground, and with three initial letters in bold relief in gold upon it.

The picture was barely finished when the company were startled by a stifled cry from the master of

the house, and turning we saw that he had become deathly pale.

"What is the matter, papa, dear?" asked his grown daughter sitting beside him. "What does that picture

represent?"

Cemetery in

New Orleans, and the obelisk is the monument I erected many years ago, long before you were born, over one of my brothers who died in that city," replied the gentleman, and hastily left the room. None of his relatives sitting at the table had previously been aware of the death and burial of this party.

The picture was well drawn, and had the appearance of having been made with soap, but the writer could not rub anything off after the sitting, and all gradually faded shortly after Mr. Foster left the house.

O THE law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

8:20.

Isa.

"If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness."

Matt. 6:23.

We have no desire to investigate Spiritualism other than from the standpoint of the Bible. The revelation of God's will to man, is the only position from which to view the claims of this or any other system of teaching which has to do with things eternal.

Thus far we have seen no claim advanced by the advocates of Spiritualism but that can be, and has been, fully met by the word of God. Yet on all sides are given wonderful presentations and miraculous manifestations to prove the claims put forward.

This very feature of Spiritualism is foretold by John. He says of the spirits who do this work, "They are the spirits of devils, working miracles." Rev. 16:14.