Then quite suddenly Mr. Gladstone began to prove to us that the old Biblical scribes were convinced spiritualists. From his intimate knowledge of the Bible he quoted text after text in support of his contention. "Here He worked no wonders because the people were wanting in faith," he compared to the present day medium's difficulty in working with skeptics. When Christ asked, "Who has touched Me? Much virtue has passed out of Me," He but spoke as many a modern healer speaks on feeling a failure of power. "Try the spirits whether they be of God," is what all spiritualists of to-day should practice rigorously. Conan Doyle, in his book, "The New Revelation," touches upon those facts, and it was only on reading his book with profound interest that I remembered the impressive talk I had so many years ago with Mr. Gladstone. As Conan Doyle truly says, "The early Christian Church was saturated with spiritualism." What, it may be asked, is the value to a woman of psychic experiences, whose reality may be convincing to herself, but never to others? Firstly, there is this enormous value for me, that certain psychic experiences I have had make a future existence, after so-called death, a certainty. Secondly, other varieties of psychic phenomena have furnished me with unmistakable proof that I possess an immortal soul. Thirdly, still other varieties of experiences have provided me with the implicit belief in a God, who is in actual touch with Humanity. Again, all soul experiences, begotten from out the supreme mystery of Being, show us that our real life is not contained in our present normal consciousness, but in a vastly wider, grander plane, which, as yet, is but dimly sensed by the few. Those who have bathed in "the light invisible" can bring glory to those in gloom. They visit, but no longer live in the day. Their glory is in the night, when they walk with the Immortals, and bear with them the golden lamps of life eternal. Those who have realized the powers within, powers which not only are the pillars of infinite harmony, but the mainspring of eternal life, have builded on a rock which no tempest can destroy. "'Tis time New hopes should animate the world, New light should dawn from new revealings to a race Weighed down so long." PARACELSUS. CHAPTER VI THE GHOST OF PRINCE CHARLIE