Why thus preach? To induce belief. What then? "These signs should follow believers:" "They should cast out demons, speak with new tongues, lay hands on the sick, and heal them; make the lame walk, the blind see, and the deaf hear.' Again, said Jesus: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." The apostles had these gifts when listening to the charge. The promise, therefore, was to future believers. These signs and gifts do not abound in Christian churches, because they have departed from the "faith once delivered to the saints." But they do follow mediums, and prevail every where among Spiritualists. These works they do, being genuine believers, baptized with the Christ-baptism. Media are mediators between the winter-lands of earth, and the summer-lands of heaven, and their spiritual "signs" and powers increase in the ratio of approximation to the spiritualized planes of the pure and holy. He appeared to his apostles on the mount of Ascension, when "he is parted from them;" and to the little assembly of believers on the day of Pentacost, when they are all of "one accord" in a spiritual circle, and the manifestation comes as a "rushing, mighty wind," and "fills all the house," when "cloven tongues, like as fire," rest upon them, and they "speak in other tongues as the spirit gives them utterance." He confers upon them "the gifts of the Spirit," and they heal by the "laying on of hands;" they have visions, trances, inspirations. They are all mediumized, and, under spirit control, endure deprivation, penury, want, suffering, persecution and martyrdom, as others have done as their brothers and sisters now do. John, the beloved disciple "in the Spirit, (entranced) on the Lord's day," saw thrones, altars, crystal seas, rainbows, falling stars, white vestured angels with golden girdles; and was about to fall down and worship the "shining one," who unrolled to his clairvoyant vision these symbols of revelation and the millennial age, when he was admonished: "See thou do it not; for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets." Glorified now in the heavens, honored as a star in the congresses of spirits, he is inspired with love so tender, that his heart still beats down all the ages since, åt every pulsation, voicing the divinity within-"LITTLE CHILDREN, LOVE ONE ANOTHER!" CHAPTER XIV. TRANSITIONAL. "God sends his teachers unto every age, To every clime, and every race of men, With revelations fitted to their growth, And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of Truth Hyphened by erudition, and inspired by unitive purpose, to arch the years with wisdom, there were certain scholarly standard-bearers, who, conserving the good of the past and compounding it with the new, handed the philosophies of the ages down to incoming dispensations. Some of these were the cotemporaries of Jesus. Among them, were Simeon, the mild and the just; Jesus, the promising son of Sirach; the learned Rabbi, Hillel; Schemaia, the wise; the candid Gamaliel, the elder; and the distinguished writer and scholar, the Judaic Egyptian, Philo. These philosophic thinkers, laying great stress upon dreams and visions, believed in the appearance of spirits. Bating the Sadducees, it was a common dogma of the masses. Ernest Renan, the most learned of living Shemitic scholars, writing in his "Life of Jesus," of the group assembled on the banks of Lake Tiberias, to hear the Nazarene, says: "They believed in spectres and spirits." PHILO JUDEUS, born in Alexandria, a city next to Athens, the famous resort of the Greek literati, was, in religion, a |