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even prohibits their exercise when they come voluntarily forth. The Zouave is not permitted in France to perform the beneficent cures which God has put into his hands. God himself is laid under the malignant ban of human selfishness and professional bigotry. Licensed doctorship joining action with military jealousy puffs itself out, and tells God that he shall not do the good that He desires. What hundreds of poor afflicted creatures now in Paris, and other parts of France, are enduring agonies of pain, or are lying helpless and sorrowful, prostrated by paralysis or by the multifarious nervous maladies which tyrannize over humanity; and knowing that God, through the Zouave, could cure them at once if men would let him. And who are these men? Nominal Christians, and good servants of the devil. When shall that millennial time arrive, when Almighty God having indulged the devil and all his doctors and professors of obstructive science to the height of their folly and their greed, shall close the drama of His marvellous patience, and with one sufficient thunderbolt shall blast and burn out all their conspiracies against abused humanity, and shall take leave to "do as He likes with His own?"

W. H.

EVIDENCES OF SPIRITUALISM IN MODERN WORKS OF HISTORY AND LITERATURE.

PART II.

PREDICTIONS.

IN the year 1707, John Needs, a Winchester scholar, foretold the deaths of Mr. Carman, chaplain to the college, Dr. Mew, Bishop of Winchester, and himself. All these events took place within the year, as he said they would. His schoolfellows had made much sport over his predictions, and called him Prophet Needs. When Mr. Carman died at the time he had specified, people said that that required no great spirit of prophecy, as he was an old man; yet there was no apparent cause for his approaching death, much less that it should take place at a given time. The bishop's death was occasioned by an accident. As for Needs himself, he was quite well and young. Mr. Fletcher, the second master of the school, and father of the Bishop of Kildare, insisted and reasoned with him on the folly of his belief of his own decease, but without in the least shaking his conviction. With the utmost calmness and composure he only

replied that the event would verify his prediction. As the time approached he named not only the day but the hour, and as these approached, he, without any apparent anxiety, began to droop in frame. To deceive him, they put the town clock forward, but he saw through the deception, and said that as the church clock struck he should expire; and he did so.

This account, in answer to an enquiry of Bishop Trimnell, was confirmed by the then Fellow, Mr. Lavington, and this gentleman, when afterwards Bishop of Exeter, gave the same account to his friends.

AN APPARITION IN A SCHOOL.

On Saturday, June 22, 1728, John Daniels, a lad of about 14 years of age, appeared in the school of Beminster, at 12 o'clock at noon, between three weeks and a month after his burial. The school at Beminster was kept in a gallery of the parish church, to which there was a distinct entrance from the churchyard. On Saturday the master had dismissed his scholars, and soon after some of them went into the school again to seek for old pens. Hearing a strange noise down in the church, like the sounding of a brass pan, they ran out and told their schoolfellows in the churchyard, thinking it was done to frighten them. A general search was made, but nothing found. As they were again going into the school, they heard a noise as of a man marching in heavy boots, and, terrified at it, they all ran round the church, and when at the belfry, or west door, they heard a voice as of the minister preaching, and then of the congregation singing psalms. When all this had passed away, they got calm, and went to play at ball again in the churchyard; but on one of them going again into the school to fetch his book, he saw lying on a bench about six feet from him a coffin. Alarmed at this, he rushed out and told his schoolfellows, on which they all, twelve of them, thronged to the school door, and five of the twelve saw the apparition of John Daniels sitting at some distance from the coffin, farther in the school. All of them saw the coffin, and the conjecture why all did not see the apparition was, that the door being narrow, they could not all approach it at once. More probably, some were not so clairvoyant as the rest; but such things were not understood then.

The first who recognized the apparition was his half-brother, who on seeing it cried out, "There sits our John, with just such a coat on as I have."-They were generally clothed alike in the lifetime of the deceased. There he sits, with a pen in his hand and a book before him, and a coffin by him. I will throw a stone at him." He was told not to do so, but did, and doing it said,

"Take it;" on which the apparition immediately disappeared, and left the church in a thick darkness for two or three minutes.

On examination before Colonel Broadrep, all these boys, between nine and twelve years of age, agreed in all their relations, even to the hinges of the coffin, and the description of the coffin agreed with that in which the deceased was buried. One of the boys, a sedate lad of twelve, had never seen John Daniels, having only come to the school about a fortnight before Daniels died; yet he described him accurately, and took notice of one thing which the others had not observed, namely, that the apparition had a white cloth bound about one of his hands. The woman who laid out the corpse declared on oath that she took such a white bandage from John Daniels' hand, which had been put on four days or a week before his death, the hand being lame. The body had been found in an obscure place in the fields, and buried without an inquest, on the mother saying that he was subject to fits. After the apparition, the body was disinterred, and on examination of it, the jury which sate upon it brought in a verdict of strangled. No further light, however, could be thrown on the subject.

VALENTINE GREATRAKES, THE HEALER.

By an account of Greatrakes, in the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XLIX., p. 22, it is shown that he experienced the same incredulity, calumny, and persecution, as all other such benefactors. The Bishop of Lismore, when crowds flocked to him from all the country round, and scores and hundreds were cured by him, cited him into the Ecclesiastical Court, and forbade him to lay hands on any for the future. We suppose We suppose that Greatrakes said, as the apostles did before him, "Whether it is right to obey God or you, judge thou." At least he did it practically, for he went on curing in spite of the so-called Christian bishop, but certainly not a follower of Christ, who forbade any one healing and doing miracles to be stopped. What a queer inversion of a Christian church, when a bishop of it stands forward and denies Christ himself in the face of the Saviour's most emphatic act and declaration. Such a church, take what name it will, is obviously Anti-Christ. The court of Englandbut what a court! that of the libidinous reptile Charles II.—was not wholly convinced of his power. How could such a den of filthy reprobates be convinced of anything decent, much more sacred and spiritual, yet it allowed him to go on, and he cured vast numbers in and around London. Still he was violently talked and written against, although the royal physicians, the celebrated Robert Boyle, the learned Cudworth, and Drs. Wilkins,

Whichcot, and Patrick, three bishops, Flamsteed, the royal astronomer, and many eminent lawyers and men of rank, bore full testimony to his cures. The writer of the article in the Gentleman's Magazine himself credits the report that his reputation was only built on the credulity of the public, as if the celebrated and acute men named were not capable of believing their own eyes. His reputation, he says, did not last much longer than that of James Aymor, 1692-3, in Dauphiny, who made so much noise with his divining rod. This writer says St. Evremond wrote a novel called The Irish Prophet, to ridicule Greatrakes' pretensions; and he also refers us to "A Humorous Account of Greatrakes' strokings," in King's Works, Vol. II., p. 46, and also The Miraculous Conformist, by Henry Stubbs, M.D., Oxford, 1666. Yet Greatrakes' reputation survives and grows greater as further spiritual developments confirm the facts of his time; and this writer himself confesses that, on the closest inquiry, nothing but what was most honourable to Mr. Greatrakes could be discovered.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES ATTTENDING THE DEATH OF DR. แ HARRIS, PREBEND OF ROCHESTER, AND AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF KENT."

Dr. Harris was visiting at the house of Mr. Godfrey, of Norton Court, in Kent. On Monday Mr. Godfrey sent out his coachman and gardener to take some rabbits in their nets. They returned after their sport in great precipitation and alarm. They said that, at only a field's distance from the house, the dogs came suddenly running to them, and endeavoured to creep between their legs to hide themselves. Both the men. declared that, looking about, they saw a coffin carried just by them on men's shoulders. Mr. Godfrey laughed at the occurrence, Dr. Harris and the rest of the family were gone to bed, and the men were desired not to say a word of this to any of them. Yet Mr. Godfrey, himself, to amuse Dr. Harris, who had often laughed at such things, went to his bedroom and woke him up to tell him of it. They had a hearty laugh, over the folly of the men, who, they said, had converted a black horse or cow in the dark into a coffin. The next day it was the subject of great mirth in the family. At the eating of the rabbits at dinner, Dr. Harris said, if the devil had a hand in catching them, they were very good for all that. The writer of the article, who had the account from relations staying in the house at the same time, adds, that one morning, as some one was relating a dream of the night before, Dr. Harris said, he thought they were always relating their dreams. For his part, he said, if ever he took notice of

a dream, it would be one he had last night. "I dreamed," he said, "that the Bishop of, in Ireland, sent for me to come over to him, and I returned answer that I could not, for I was dead; when methought I laid my hands along by my sides, and so died." At this time the doctor was as well as usual, but after eating the rabbits he became unwell, a physician from Canterbury was sent for, but he grew steadily worse. The rabbits, the source of so much jest on his part, were caught on the 31st of August, and he died on the 7th of September.

DREAM FULFILLED.

In the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. LVII., Part 2, p. 1062, there is a very striking fulfilment of a dream. One Adam Rogers, a man of good sense and repute, who kept a public house at Portlaw, a small hamlet nine or ten miles from Waterford, dreamed one night that he saw two men at a particular green spot on the adjoining mountain; one of them was a small sickly-looking man, the other remarkably strong and large. He then saw the little man murder the other, and he awoke in great agitation. The circumstances of the dream were so distinct and forcible that he continued much affected by them. He related them to his wife, and also to several of his neighbours next morning. Soon after he went out with a Mr. Browne, the catholic priest of the parish, and they came, accidentally as it seemed, to the very spot in the mountain where he saw the murder in his dream, and called the priest's attention to it. On the following morning he was extremely startled on seeing two strangers enter his house, about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, precisely like the two persons of his dream; he ran into an inner room and desired his wife to take particular notice of them. They both became very much alarmed for the little weakly man, though contrary to the appearance in the dream. So much concerned was Rogers, that he earnestly dissuaded the little man from going on, and promised to take him with him the next morning to Carrick. Hickey, the little man, seemed quiet and gentle in his demeanour. Caulfield, the large man, had a ferocious bad countenance. Rogers felt persuaded that something fatal would happen if they went on together, but did not like to tell Hickey his dream. When they were gone and the wife heard that Hickey had money about him, she blamed her husband greatly for not being resolute in detaining Hickey. They had not been long gone when the body of Hickey was discovered by some labourers-murdered and still warm-in the very place of Rogers's dream. The news quickly reached Portlaw, and Rogers and his wife hastened to th e of the murder. They at once

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