Pupils received at all times. A thorough course in the principles and practice of Christian Mental Science given by study of Lessons and recitation, with lectures and drills. Prepares student for active work. THE ELEMENTARY COURSE covers two weeks time. Charge, including board and room, with treatments when required, $35.00 for all. The drill is thorough and the Home influence helpful. Write and engage a place before you come. Only students taken in our Home, those who come to This Course is also given by correspondence, for $25, payable by easy instalments if desirable to pupils, includ- ing two weeks' treatment free when needed. NORMAL COURSE, for the purpose of preparing stu- dents for lecturing and teaching, 18 lessons, $50.00. Board FEBRUARY, 190 2 L About Chat Psychic Experience AST MONTH I gave you a psychic experience re lated to me by a lawyer friend. He asked for my opinion of it and I promised our readers to give them some thoughts on the phenomena as related, in this issue of The Life. I wish to call your attention especially to three things in my friend's experience. Mind you, I do not doubt any particular of the story as told, for I believe my friend to be both truthful and too level-headed to be easily deceived. The three points I wish to call attention to and give my ideas upon are, 1. The change of my friend's determination to not attend the seance. 2. The arrangement of the roome and the production of the forms. 3. The fact that the form of his deceased wife still had consumption. 1. I doubt not our intentions and purposes are often changed by the argument and influence of those who are disembodied, as well as by those who are not. Suppose this man had been invited to attend a meeting and had made up his mind not to go. But suppose his beloved wife in the flesh should come to his office and insist upon his going, and say, "I will be there and wish especially to meet you there for a particular purpose." Would he not change his mind about it and go? Suppose the wife is what the world calls dead, but what a very large majority of the people of the world believe, or at least hope, is only existence on a plane of life higher than this. May she not be able to make the same request and have the same persuasive power? I can conceive of no reason why she may not, if she indeed be yet alive and possessing a self-conscious individuality. The old theories about the disembodied going away to be shut up either in a very high walled city or under its pavements in the furnace room, are now known to be superstitions of an ignorant past. If my child yet lives, she is in heaven anywhere she goes and perfectly free to visit the ones who have not ceased to love her and cherish her memory as sacred. And I do not believe she has forgotten or ceased to love us; nor has she departed from us. Let us be reasonable and and free ourselves from the old prejudices. It is good to be sensible about all things, even about religion and spiritualism. If my friend was induced to change his mind about attending the seance and could assign no ostensible reason for the change, may the influence not have come from some invisible one? If not, why not? And if his deceased wife still lives in spirit form and had promised him, as he says, before her demise that she would sometime speak to him, and now realized that this was going to be a favorable opportunity, probably the first she had had, to so impress his senses that he would recognize her, may we not reasonably suppose that she was somewhat anxious to have him attend and did all in her power to induce him to go? Why not, pray? If you ask me why she could not manifest herself to him at any time and in any place, I will answer that his senses of sight, hearing and touch must be appealed to, |