patients, and the inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx in nervous invalids of both sexes. An undue excitement and overworking of the sexual organism will weaken the vocal apparatus, and a habit of deep abdominal breathing will, in turn, give strength and a healthy tone to the organs of generation. It is the best known remedy for every form of sexual disease. It has been established beyond a doubt by Dr. Desgranges, of Lyons, that persons who are addicted to an abuse or over-use of the sexual organs are the most liable to inflammations of the larynx, tonsils, and throat. A complete aphony, or loss of voice, is sometimes caused by a prolapsus or ulceration of the uterus, and never can be cured until that condition of the generative organs is removed. All physicians have observed the sympathy which exists in women between the respiratory and vocal organs and the womb. Thus, during pregnancy, or the approach of the menstrual period, or at its cessation, many females, especially those of a nervous temperament, experience a more or less remarkable change in the voice. Taking the sympathy which exists between the vocal and reproductive organs as an established principle of physiology, it is evident that no remedy for the multifarious forms of sexual disease can be more natural or efficient than an erect attitude and full and deep breathing. It is a prescription invariably and universally applicable to all such cases.

REST.

"Rest is not fleeing

This noisy career;

Rest is the fitting

Of self to one's sphere.

""Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean

After its life.

""Tis loving and seeing The brightest and best, "Tis onward unswerving, And this is true rest."

POWER FROM ON HIGH, OR SPIRITUAL AID, NECESSARY TO SUCCESS IN THE CURE OF DISEASE BY MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY.

What meant by Power from Above · - How God Helps Men Spirits and Angels the Mediums Magnetism Reveals the other World-Connects us with it-Testimony of Gregory - Deleutze-Cahagnet - Townsend - Scientific Proof of Continued Existence- Prof. Bush - The Work Assigned the Nineteenth Century-Laws of Spirit— Stilling's Pneumatology — The Psychopathic Physician Needs the Aid of Higher Powers Availibility of it - The Laws by which it is Communicated— Two Kinds of Operation — Obsession or Possession — Influence or Mental Stimulation - These Conditions Described - How to render Available the Forces of the Spiritual World - Mental and Spiritual Laws - Spiritual Christianity — The Central Idea of the Gospels.

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EFORE the apostles were allowed to go forth on

their public mission of healing the sick, and proclaiming the higher truths of a new dispensation, an advanced stage in the development of the kingdom of God on earth, they were expressly commanded to tarry in Jerusalem until they should be endued with power from on high. This alone would qualify them for the work assigned them in the plan of Providence. After this spiritual baptism they were different men. They were invested with a new power. Their carnal, material mode of thought was made to give place to a clearer perception of spiritual things. The fleshly veil was removed from their minds, their intuitions were quick

ened, their interior senses were opened, and they came into conscious communication with the spiritual world. To be endued with power from on high can mean nothing less than the reception of an influence from the higher realm of being to strengthen and augment the action of their natural faculties. So far as the power to cure disease is a special gift to the individual, it is a call from God and nature to use it for the benefit of humanity, and there is in it a pledge also of divine aid.

But it is the ordinary method of divine communication with men to employ the intermediate agency of spirits and angels. This is a truth fully illustrated and confirmed by the historical records of both Testaments. And Plutarch long ago observed, that "one supreme Providence governs the world; and genii (or subordinate spirits) participate with him in its administration. To these genii have been given, among different people, different names, and different honor." In the Old and New Testament they are denominated angels. Spiritual influences come to us from a sympathetic connection and conjunction with the intelligences and powers of the inner or higher world. This is effected without a miracle, and in perfect harmony with the laws of our nature. If it be a fact, and there is no reason to doubt it, that the apostles of Jesus were made the recipients of an influence emanating from the realm above, which exalted all their natural powers to a higher range of activity, so as to render works easily practicable, which, in their unassisted condition, were difficult and even impossible, there is no reason why we may not be endowed with the same psychological and spiritual force, and from the same quarter. They were elevated, by this sympathetic conjunction with higher intelligences, from the low range of the fleshly mind, to a plane of the inner life border

ing on the high activities of the celestial climes. But it was effected without any departure from the ordinary laws of mind. Magnetism is the science which puts man into communication with the spirit-world, and connects this lower and rudimentary sphere with the higher range of life and intelligence. How this is done, I have shown in treating on the law of sympathy. It has been noticed by all the writers on animal magnetism,Deleutze, Cahagnet, Townsend, and Gregory, that persons in the higher stages of the magnetic state find themselves in communication with the spiritual world. "They hold long conversations with spirits, to whom they often give names, and who, in many cases, according to their account, are the spirits of departed friends or relations. The remarks and answers of these beings, seen in vision, are reported by them. Some of them affirm that every man has an attendant good spirit, perhaps, also, an evil one of inferior power. Some can summon, either of themselves or with the aid of their attendant spirit, the vision or spirit of any dead relation or friend, and even of persons also dead, whom neither they nor their magnetizer have ever seen, whom perhaps no one present has ever seen; and the minute description given in all cases of the persons seen or summoned is afterwards found to be correct."

If there be a spiritual world, not remote from this, but sustaining important relations to the world we consciously occupy, and a vital connection with it, as the soul and body in man, it is at least possible, and highly probable, that these visions of the somnambulic and trance states may be solid realities, and not the baseless fabric of a dream. Here is opened up to us a source of evidence of the truth of future existence of more scientific value than all the dry essays and pulpit