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Rh only prove that certain individuals have a continued existence after death, and maintain their affiliation

with mortal flesh; but Spiritualism affords no certainty of everlasting life. A man's assertion that he is immortal no more proves him to be so, than the opposite assertion, that he is mortal, would prove immortality a lie. Nor is the case improved when alleged spirits teach immortality. Life, Love, and Truth are the only evidences of immortality.

Man in the likeness of God, as revealed in Science, cannot help being immortal. Though the grass seemeth

to wither and the flower to fade, they reappear. Erase the figures which express number, silence the tones of music, give to the worms the body called man, and yet the producing and governing Principle lives on, — in the one case as truly as in the other, — despite the so-called laws of matter, which define man as mortal. Though the inharmony resulting from material sense hides the harmony of Science, it cannot destroy the Principle, God. In Science, man's immortality depends on that of God, and follows it as a necessary consequence.

That somebody, somewhere, must have known the deceased person, supposed to be the communicator, is

evident, and it is as easy to read distant thoughts as near. We think of an absent friend as easily as we do of one present. It is no more difficult to read the absent mind than it is the present. Chaucer wrote centuries ago, yet we still read his thought in his verse. What is classic study, but so much discernment of the minds of Homer and Virgil, of whose personal existence we may be in doubt?