s" of egotism and ignorance. There are "dead
loads" of people who think this is all there is of Spiritualism. While
it _is_ blessed that friends can return, and comfort the mourning ones
by their assurances of remembrance and love, this should never be the
final result sought for. Those who have lived but a limited time in
the spirit world--the world of causes, of law--cannot teach people here
the knowledge that can satisfy their souls. But there are educated
souls, who have once lived honored and useful lives here, who are only
too glad to respond to the needs of inquiring humanity, teaching them
the ways of wisdom, and lifting them out of ignorance and darkness into
the light.

RESPONSIVENESS.

Surely we are trying to solve the biggest problems before the class.
The people who are our profoundest teachers, through whom come our
largest experiences and knowledge are often most unconscious of their
influence on other minds; and this is lawful, for the moment a human
soul begins to wriggle either from anxiety or egotism, the divine
"chemical affinities" are disturbed.

Long before we get up to God, our nearer relative, "Mother Nature," is
most gracious in her methods of unfoldment, standing ever ready to
whisper in the devoted, or willing ear, her "open sesame" to the
manifold workings of her secret laws. It is ever the same old
exhortation: "Seek and ye shall find," "Knock and it shall be opened to
you," and the most wonderful of all is, the amount of unexpected
testimony, and endorsement which she will contrive to bring to bear to
prove to you the truth of what she asserts through your own individual
experience.

"Elective affinities" hold their own royally. You shall think and feel
deeply, and the first friend you meet shall tell you--quite
spontaneously--of his ponderings which tally with your own, never
suspecting that they are held to you by a subtle, and beautiful
chemistry, the response of soul to soul.

There is but one integral law. All others are but its radiations. The
natural tendency of the human mind is ever toward being satisfied with
its present limitations, instead of which we ought to constantly
exercise our will and aspiration to fling off the mists of prejudice
which so easily envelop the soul, and strive ever to enlarge our
horizon, and push on to higher and better things.

HELL.

Such men as J. Knox in Scotland and J. Edwards in this country must
have had chronic indig