with an open verdict. Eight days later I went to have
a sitting with Mr. Vout Peters. After giving me a good
deal which was vague and irrelevant, he suddenly said:
"There is a lady here. She is leaning upon an older
woman. She keeps saying 'Morphia.' Three times she
has said it. Her mind was clouded. She did not mean
it. Morphia!" Those were almost his exact words.
Telepathy was out of the question, for I had entirely
other thoughts in my mind at the time and was expecting
no such message.

Apart from personal experiences, this movement must
gain great additional solidity from the wonderful
literature which has sprung up around it during the
last few years. If no other spiritual books were in
existence than five which have appeared in the last
year or so--I allude to Professor Lodge's Raymond,
Arthur Hill's Psychical Investigations, Professor
Crawford's Reality of Psychical Phenomena,
Professor Barrett's Threshold of the Unseen, and
Gerald Balfour's Ear of Dionysius--those five alone
would, in my opinion, be sufficient to establish the
facts for any reasonable enquirer.

Before going into this question of a new religious
revelation, how it is reached, and what it consists of,
I would say a word upon one other subject. There have
always been two lines of attack by our opponents. The
one is that our facts are not true. This I have dealt
with. The other is that we are upon forbidden ground