of the Devil, purchasable for twopence; the other is
the Rev. Arthur Chambers' Our Self After Death. I
can also recommend the Rev. Charles Tweedale's writings
upon the subject. I may add that when I first began to
make public my own views, one of the first letters of
sympathy which I received was from the late Archdeacon
Wilberforce.

There are some theologians who are not only opposed
to such a cult, but who go the length of saying that
the phenomena and messages come from fiends who
personate our dead, or pretend to be heavenly teachers.
It is difficult to think that those who hold this view
have ever had any personal experience of the consoling
and uplifting effect of such communications upon the
recipient. Ruskin has left it on record that his
conviction of a future life came from Spiritualism,
though he somewhat ungratefully and illogically added
that having got that, he wished to have no more to do
with it. There are many, however--quorum pars parva
su--who without any reserve can declare that they
were turned from materialism to a belief in future
life, with all that that implies, by the study of this
subject. If this be the devil's work one can only say
that the devil seems to be a very bungling workman and
to get results very far from what he might be expected
to desire.