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COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD. 99their attractions arc upward, but their mission is to instruct those hclowthem, from which they derive much happiness. You know, father, howmuch pleasure it gives you to impart knowledge to others. How muchgreater then isof real joys !our enjoyment, whose minds are intensely more susceptibleYour spiritual mission on earth has just begun, and we areendeavouring to impress your mind with the sacred importance of its fulfilment.Give unto others that we give unto you, and you shall receiveabundantly. I occupy a place which has not yet been opened to yourperception. Prepare yourself, my dear father, for its higher and moreglorious unfoldings, by first gaining that knowledge which pertains to thelower degrees, and you will thereby become elevated to the higher spiritualplanes, and increase your knowledge of things celestial, and greatly developand enlarge your sphere of usefulness.Theodore."Additional Communications from Spirits w7io died icliileInfants.474. The brother of a medium reported himself by spelling out hisname in full—Dewitt Matthias. He had departed this life at the age ofthirteen months. I inquired if he had taught himself to spell. I wasinstructed, was his answer.475. While I was in a state of extreme unbelief, Dewitt's mother toldme that her son, who died when aged only thirteen months, had communicatedwith her; and said that his stature had grown with his age,now sixteen years. This statement I mentioned as an exemplification ofcredulity, little thinking that this wonder would be realized by the existenceof my spirit children being made evident to me by such communicationsas that from Theodore, above given.476. The eldest child of my parents died an infant, yet my elder brother,Charles, in his account of his spiritual birth,mentions that this brothercame as a full-grown spirit to greet his translation to the spirit world.Communication from, a very young Spirit child to itsParents.477. The following communications have been received from a spiritchild, as I understand, of about six years old. It will be perceived thatit was assisted by its grandmother. They have been handed to me bythe child's father, Mr. George Helmick, in whose sincerity I have greatconfidence.478. The following message, says Mr. Helmick, came through themedium of Miss Irish, some eight months since, on an occasion whenthere were some twelve or fifteen persons present, nearly all of whomwere entire strangers to me and my wife, who was also present. We hadnever seen Miss Irish before, and we know that sheus in any respect.had no knowledge of