uthority, especially if the authority is open to a suspicion of
prejudice; and that there may be a financial bigotry as hateful and
unprogressive, and as much out of sympathy with this growing age, as
is the dry-as-dust ecclesiasticism of the day. Every citizen should
give courteous attention to the new voices that come to us from the
West, and be careful that his decision, on the whole matter, is not
influenced by his position as one of the creditors of the land.

PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES.

BY SARA A. UNDERWOOD.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY B. F. UNDERWOOD.

The statements in this paper as to what was written in my
presence purporting to be communications from "spirits," and
as to the circumstances under which it was written, are
scrupulously correct. The "communications," it is certain,
are from an intelligent source. Mrs. Underwood is the person
by whose hand they are put in form. That she is not laboring
under a mistake in thinking that she is unconscious of the
thought expressed until she has read the writing,--if,
indeed, such a mistake in a sane mind is possible,--I am
certain. Sometimes, owing to the illegibility of the
writing, she has to study out sentences. The writing varies
in style, not only on different evenings, but on the same
evening; it is apparently the writing of not fewer than
twenty persons, and generally bearing no resemblance
whatever, so far as I can judge, to Mrs. Underwood's
handwriting, which is remarkably uniform. The communications
are unlike in the degrees of intelligence, in the quality of
thought, and in the disposition which they show. Detailed
statements of facts unknown to either of us, but which,
weeks afterwards, were learned to be correct, have been
written, and repeated again and again, when disbelieved and
contradicted by us. All the writing has been done in my
presence, but most of it while I have been busily occupied
with work which demanded my undivided attention. The views
expressed are often different from my own, and quite as
frequently, perhaps, opposed to Mrs. Underwood's views.

Some will, doubtless, interpret these facts as evidence and
illustrations of the multiplex character of personality, and
will regard these communications, apparently indicating
several distinct intelligences, as manifestations of
differen