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202 PRACTICAL BENEFIT OF SPIRITUALISM.as it had been handed to her. This has to be regarded as a beautiful specimenof psychometric mediumship.riiiT-ADKLriiiA, Marcli 2o, 1855.10G4. Mij dear Brother John : Your communication last evening at ourcircle of '' progress" afforded me much gratification, as you are doubtlessaware from your pervading perception.I regret that circumstances do notallow of a more frequent intercourse with my beloved friends ofthe spiritland. It is also my ardent desire to hold communion with all my spiritrelatives, and would wish with you, my dear brother, to bring about thisdelightful consummation.10G5. Your injunction of cheerfulness, as an efficient means of securinga healthful equilibrium of the vital organism, I can fully appreciate, andshall endeavourto profit by your welcome brotherly and excellent advice,as far as circumstances will permit. It is true, my dear John, that alonger sojourn here harmonizes with my desire to effect some objects, theaccomplishment of which would probably add to my happiness here, andmy claim for congenial association. The object to which I allude is theamelioration of the condition of thepoor and wretched of my fellow-creatures,making them through my agency the recipients of some active benevolence.1066. I have imbibed the opinion that the only acceptable offering atthe throne of the great God, is the actual performance of those dutieswhich are incumbent on us as individuals and social beings; beginningwith the establishment of our own personalphysical and moral character,and those of our own household and immediate social circle of relatives andfriends ;of benevolence inand then, to the accomplishment of this, to cultivate the sentimentaiding to promote the individual welfare of mankind inthe use of what talent and other means may have fallen to our lot.I amprone, in my relations with the great OmnijDotent Ruler of the universe, toapply the time-honoured maxim, ^'xVctions speak louder than words.''1067. Your invitation, my dear brother, to increase my intercourse withmy spirit friends, finds in my heart and mind a very ready compliance.You propose a daily appropriation of time to this object. If you will dome the favour to appoint the time most agreeable to them and most desirablefor myself, it shall be, to the fullest extent of my power, sacredlydevoted to a duty and pleasure that are nearest to my heart.1068. I feel the assurance that the good earth-character and intelligenceof my spirit family, and the extent of our mutual love and affinity, affordme a more than ordinary opportunity for receiving information of thatbright world which has become a delightful prospective inheritance to meand to thousands of doubting, fearful, and despairing minds.1069. Your inspiring cheerfulness, my dear John, has already verifiedyour sensible prognostic of the great influence on disease of a cheerfulmind.I have learnt to entertain a high opinion of the bright intelligence