to our attendant spirits what is passing in the minds of Satan and his hosts.

The Exigencies of the Angelic Life Itself, seem to make it certain that to good spirits God communicates the thoughts and purposes of evil spirits; that the angels may know what their duty is. "There was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven." (Rev. 12; 7-8). But back of Michael and his angels was the Deity. The plans, thoughts, impulses of the Devil and his angels were all known to God. And did God, knowing these things, conceal them from his own angels, who were contending against those evil spirits; and would be much helped by knowing the thoughts and intentions of the latter? The idea would seem preposterous.

From the Very Necessities of the Divine Administration, these direct communications of ideas by God from spirit to spirit, must be constantly made in directing those spirits in the other life. In this world, in the Bible, we find God continually revealing the thoughts, purposes, etc., of one mind to other minds, to carry out his own divine decrees.

But that coming world is incomparably greater and more comprehensive. Such vast multitudes of spirits! All the angels! All the ransomed souls of all the generations! Their life more active! Also of a higher order! The theatre of their activities extending through infinite areas! Such countless occupations! Such myriads of correspondences and correlations! The intricacies of the drama must be ineffably greater than in this present state.

While the Church is here on earth, there is this provision by which ideas, feelings, and purposes may be directly made known from one mind to other minds. There must be similar provision for the glorified Church in heaven. If this was necessary to carry out God's plans for his people on a little world like ours; much more for the fulfilment of his purposes in that other life, when his Church inherits the illimitable universe.

Otherwise how can he as a sovereign marshall his hosts, and

administer the different departments of his empire? The heavenly bands would be like an army in which no person ever knew what course any other person was to pursue; where he would be, or what he would do. Therefore we must believe these thoughttransmissions by him from mind to mind are going on continually. Individuals, groups, and hosts of individuals must be thus put in communication with one another.

The Scriptural Teaching that the Church is the Body of Christ, further Compels Belief that the Above Position is Correct.

Among the members of the human body, there must be a mutual cooperation; each recognizing and respecting the movements of the others, and the movement of each being determined by the movements of the others; all under the guidance of the head. Believers are members of the body of Christ. The Church of the other world is a vast unity. As with the human body here, so it must be with Christ's mystic body hereafter. Among all its parts there must be constant, sensitive, mutual understanding and cooperation. His members must move with reference to one another in that future life, their relations reciprocal and correspondent.

Those members must be continually directed by the Head. But this can be brought about only by telepathy. Christ's ideas and commands are thus transmitted to his members. The ideas and purposes of one member, so far as necessary, are thus transmitted to other members (as we saw between Saul and Ananias); only on an infinite scale.

Wherever holy spirits move throughout his boundless realms, he must be forever conveying communications from one mind to another. Analogy and the necessities of the case compel us to believe these disclosures from finite mind to finite mind are in progress throughout the cosmos forever.

As the unquestionable teachings of Scripture had previously shown that these direct transmissions of thought, at the instance of God himself, are possible; so the facts of Holy Writ prove: (1) that between spirits of this world they have actually and repetitiously occurred; (2) between spirits of this world on one side, and finite beings of the unseen world on the other, they have

actually and repetitiously occurred and are occurring all the time. While a variety of Scriptural arguments oblige us to believe (3) that, among the thronging spirits of the other world they likewise go on eternally. Sound logic seems to lead to these conclusions. As already observed, in the Class just treated, all thoughtcommunications from one finite mind to another are involuntary on the part of those minds themselves. They occur solely at the volition of the Deity. And, since his omnipresent mind is the medium of intercourse, no distance between spirits, though they be a universe apart, can make the slightest difference in the facility or completeness of this communication.

MIND-READING, OR CLAIRVOYANCE.

FIRST. AS EXHIBITED IN THE TELEPATHY OF NATURE, OR SCIENCE.

SECOND. AS EXHIBITED IN THE TELEPATHY OF SCRIPTURE, AND OF THE CELESTIALS.