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PRACTICAL BENEFIT OP SPIRITUALISM. 199love, ^vllic•ll, unobstructed by time and space, makes you so often tlie companionof my mind and heart, and the dear partner of my tliouglits andfeelings,would seem to render the present object of addressing a letter toyou and your dear brothers in heaven a superfluous task.104o. '' ]5ut, my dear Maria, my ever dear and cherished child, witlimy growing faith in the blessed reality of spiritual existence, I am becomingdaily more anxious to preserve the history of my happy experience,and also my correspondence with my beloved relations of this world, whohave preceded me in the progressive destiny of the human race. Besidewhich, my beloved daughter, it will assimilate, revive, and perpetuatethat mundane correspondence, the dear mementoes of which had their beginningseventeen summers since in your sick chamber on the banks ofthe Hudson, while an ambitious and youthful votary of Minerva, andended on the Alabama, ever sacred to my memory, with the terminationof your worldly career, a wife and a mother.1044. ^' The considerations which engage my mind and elicit my solicitude,in this contemplated correspondence with my spirit relatives andfriends, are the mode of conducting it, that may make them acquaintedwith its contents, the fear of transcending the limits of propriety in thesubject-matter of my letters, and my solicitude to make all my thoughts,feelings, and acts as conformable to the high behests of spirit life as maybe within the reach of my weak and earthly nature.1045. " The communications I have received from you and your dearbrothers, and from your Uncle John and Aunt Rebecca, are a perpetualsource of happiness to my mind, and nothing, while I am in this world,can reflect so much joy on my heart as the continued correspondence ofallthe loved ones who have gone before me.1046. " Your angel visits, and those of my dear William, during myrecent bodily affliction, have exercised that joyful influence on my heartand mind so essential in diseases of a dangerous nature and of doubtfultermination.1047. " The assurance which you and your dear brother have givenme, that my sickness has had the happy eff"ect to spiritualize my mentaland physical nature, has been already made manifestto my grateful mindby strengthened resolution for the future, and a more exalted sense of thedemands of that true spiritual philosophy which felicitates our life in this,and secures for us a desirable position in the spheres above.1048. '' Flowing from my warm aspirations for the increased happinessof my fellow-creatures in this mundane sphere, by the dissemination andgrowth of the spiritual doctrine, I cherish a wish that this letter may bemade to subserve that divine object, by exhibiting to the world an irrefutabletest of spiritual intercourse.1049. "For this purpose, my dear angel child, in your next interviewthroughour much-respected medium, allow me to request the favour of