Nature's laws in human life

Front matter

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PART I. TESTIMOlsrY AGAmST SPIRITUALISM 20

General assertions 21

Tractby Professor Austin Phelps D. D 22

Opinions of Wiiliam T. D wight D.D 29

■ Elder Knapp 34

Comments of the Boston Traveller and Boston Herald . 50

Statements of Dr. W. A. Hammond 52

Church opposition .... - 53

Father Hecker 54

J. D. Fulton D. D., Rev. Mr. Morgan, P. T. Bamum . 55 Scientific men and organized institutions 56

PABT II.

CONSERVATISM . . • 57

.. Theodore Tilton ........ 62

Part III. Testimony In Favor Of Spiritualism .... 65

The Hebrew and Christian Scriptures

Mediumship of Mrs. J. H. Conant 69

Invocation 70

VI. CONTENTS.

TESTIMONY IN FAVOR OF SPIRITUALISM continued . 65

The Seance 71

Communication from Rev. Ezra S. Gannett D. D. . . . 72 William Wesselhoefft M. D. . . . 74

Reliability of Spirit Communications .77

Psychic Force , . . 82

OUR EXPERIENCE .86

MEDIUMSHIP 109

Additional facts— Rev. Dr. Phelps sen 114

Spirit Likenesses 150

Spiritualism at Methodist Camp Meetings 153

PRESENTIMENT— DREAMING— PROPHECY . . . .157

Detection of Crime , 167

Verification of Dreams 170

SPIRITUALISM IN COURT 176

WHAT GOOD HAS SPIRITUALISM DONE? . . . . .194

Medical cases — Injury of the knee-joint 195

A lady who had been pronounced hopeless, restored . 197

Insanity 198

Rheumatism and Cancer— Hon. Neal Dow ...... 200

Injury from a fall 203'

Alleged cupidity of healers . . . 204

DUPLEX CHARACTER OF OPPOSING TESTIMONY 207

Elder Knapp— Letter from California

Rev. J. D. Fulton D. D . 212

Dr. W. A. Hammond 213

Ely, Von Vleck, Barnum, Thomas L. Harris and others 214

SEANCES— CONDITIONS AND RULES ....... 219

MISCELLANEOUS FACTS IN SPIRITUAL EXPERI- ENCE 228

Professor J. H. Von Fichte 240

The Double . 241

President Lincoln

The Darwinian theory 243

The doctrine of Re-incarnation 244

Obsession 247

The Dread Future • 251

The co-relation of spiritual and psychological phenomena254

Planchette and Gates Ajar , 256

Organization 257

CONTENTS. VU

€IVIL AND SOCIAL RIGHTS 260

Equal Eights and Woman Suflfrage

Free Love • . 262

Marriage 269

Divorce 274

Communism 277