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PRACTICAL BENEFIT OF SPIRITUALISM. 107for you to join us, when we sliall be more so/ and to my perfect delightand astonishment, signed my son's name to the communication, askingwhether the name was correct.1030. " On a subsequent occasion, when a large and respectable companywas present, I remarked to Mrs. C. that she had reported the factthat foreign languages had been written by her hand. ^ All kinds of language;but I don't know any thing about them,' was the reply. ' If youhave no objection, I should like to get a communication from my son, in aforeia'n lancrua^je.^ 'Oh, not the least: if he knew it in this world, hewill know it in the next.'*My son, w^ill you give me a communication ina foreign language V Answer, three raps. The company were all intent onthis striking and convincing test of spiritual intercourse. In French ? no;one rap. In Spanish ? three raps. The medium's hand, as before, seizedthe pencil, and wrote upside down a communication to me in correct Spani>th,though we all accepted her declaration, that she was not acquaintedwith one word of the Spanish language.1031. "As it is said of our beneficent almighty Father, that when twoor three are gathered together in his name, he is with them, so it is withthe spirits of our dear departed relatives and friends. When a few congenial,harmonious spirits of earth are associated in virtuous love, andtheir affinity for their supermundane spirit friends is strong enough todraw them here, they come on missions of friendship, and pour happinessinto our hearts, provided the presence of a medium, possessing the requiredconditions, affords them an opportunity.1032. "It has been my good fortune to be a member of such an association,called a spirit circle ; and the communications which have come tome from my dear departed children, and others who are dear to me, filledwith love and interest for my welfare in the world, have given a value tolife which it never had before, supplying a stimulus to the heart and mindwhich has guarded them from the influence of surrounding excitements,and strewed that path with many sweets which was too apt, with lesshumility and resignation, to be regarded with doubt and pursued withremorse.1033. " Let it not be said that spiritual philosophy imparts no benefit toman. It need not be asked if opening heaven to the mind of the skepticis not a boon : it is too manifest an axiom to be made a question. Is it noadvantage to mankind to know that this life is a prelude to one in theskies ? no incentive to virtue to be taught that the beginning of our spiritlife will correspond with the termination of our mundane existence, andthat our position there will be governed by our affinities here ? Operatingon spiritual, as gravity does on physical, matter, and giving to crime a weightwhich holds the criminal back in the career of immortal happiness ; andthat this must be first disposed of by the redeeming laws of nature beforethe soul can begin its progressive flight to spheres of celestial bliss.