If these utterances are not in harmony with spiritualism, and its central and prominent idea of the very nearness of our spirit friends and the spirit world, then I am wholly incapable of recognizing and understanding the force of plain and direct language. They can have but one meaning, and that in perfect accordance with spiritualism. I find these extracts published in the Auburn _Advertiser_, of New York, from which I copied them. There they are; read them carefully, and then propound the question to your own heart and intelligence, namely: What does all this mean if spiritualism be false? And if spiritualism be true, how can these men and those holding similar views, oppose spiritualism and be consistent and maintain their self-respect? C. G. HELLEBERG. Footnotes: [1] This has reference to forget-me-not seeds which she sent me from Sweden. [2] This Polheim was Sweden's greatest architect, mathematician and builder, who projected the canal between Stockholm and Gottenburg. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Errata corrections have been applied to the text. Errors in the Errata page and line number references have been corrected without note. The following misprints have been corrected: "Erhenborg" corrected to "Ehrenborg" (ToC) "the the" corrected to "the" (page 19) "Swendenborg" corrected to "Swedenborg" (page 45) "acqainted" corrected to "acquainted" (page 54) "enternal" corrected to "eternal" (page 69) "farcial" corrected to "farcical" (page 70) "achievment" corrected to "achievement" (page 92) "enlightment" corrected to "enlightenment" (page 93) "spiriritual" corrected to "spiritual" (page 161) "righteouness" corrected to "righteousness" (page 168) "afteward" corrected to "afterward" (page 177) "Chistian" corrected to "Christian" (page 199) "succeessful" corrected to "successful" (page 201) missing "by" added (page 216) "beyong" corrected to "beyond" (page 239) "J." standardized to "T." (page 211) Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.