had a terrible dream; that I saw Mrs. S. die, and described the surroundings, the people who were by, and the furniture of the room. The dream was so vivid that I thought something must be wrong with her. The next morning my husband mailed the letter about 8 o'clock, and at 10 o'clock a telegram came saying that Mrs. S. had died the night before, and that her body would be brought to the city for burial the next Wednesday. After the funeral, on comparing notes with Mr. S., he said the description I gave of the room and the people in it was exactly as they were at the time of his wife's death.

Another lady friend has reported to me three remarkable prophetic dreams which have come under her observation.

In one of these her son was the percipient. He said at the breakfast table one morning that he had dreamed, as he supposed, although it seemed to him that he saw, a lady with whom he was acquainted run over by the cars and killed, and reported the circumstances in detail. About nine months afterward the accident happened at the place and in the exact manner he had seen it in his dream, every detail being perfect, as reported by those who witnessed it, and the surroundings being just as pictured to him, as he proved by a personal visit to the spot afterward.

Hundreds of similar dreams have been published, and thousands of people have experienced them.

The following report of a remarkable dream has been furnished me by a friend of the percipient :

A boy who owned a gun loaned it to two boy friends, who promised that it should be returned by the following Saturday. Instead of doing so they took it to a gunsmith for repairs. The owner of the gun desired to go hunting on Saturday, but as the repairs would cost one dollar and he had but half a dollar, he was at a loss for means to get possession of it. The rest of the story is best told in his own words, as reported by my friend:

"Well, I slept and dreamed that I was walking down Woodward avenue, and that, as I passed a store nearly opposite the gunsmith's, I saw a silver half dollar lying on the grating in the sidewalk. The coin was so nicely balanced on a bar of the grating that I feared it would fall off with the slightest jar, so I knelt down and crept cautiously toward it, slipped two of my fingers under it

and carefully lifted it up. Then I awoke. So impressed was I. with my dream that as soon as I had hastily swallowed my breakfast I started down Woodward avenue. I tell you I nearly lost my breath when, as I neared the spot of which I had dreamed, I actually saw a silver half dollar lying balanced just exactly as I had dreamed. I knelt down and crept along, put two fingers under it and carefully lifted it up. Then I joyfully ran to the gunsmith's, and with my other fifty cents, thus making the dollar, secured the gun and went hunting, as I intended."

This experience suggests some pertinent inquiries. Did the soul of the dreamer leave his body while he slept and view the coin waiting for him? Or did some separate and unseen intelligence carry the knowledge to him and impress it on his mind while sleeping? Or in what other manner was his experience of the subsequent morning impressed upon his soul during the night?

The activity of the soul during physical sleep, and its ability to manifest soul perception and attributes, is also demonstrated by the phenomena of somnambulism and sleep walking. Cases are also recorded which indicate that the soul sometimes acts abnormally through the physical organism. Of such nature is the following, reported in a newspaper paragraph:

While at college a young man was habitually subject to somnambulism, His fits came on regularly every night. He ran about violently, romped, wrestled, and boxed with his room-mates, who enjoyed the sport at his expense. While running he always held his hands before him, with his fingers stretched out. The general belief that somnambulists see by means of the points of their fingers, suggested to his companions the idea of putting gloves upon his hands. One night this was done while he slept. At the usual time he rose up and sprang out of bed; but did not move from the spot, and groped and tumbled about like a blind or drunken At length he perceived the cause of his distress, and took off the gloves. Scarcely were his hands uncovered when he started

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up in a lively manner and threw the gloves upon the floor, making a ludicrous observation upon the means taken to blind him, and then began to run about the room as usual.

Of extraordinary character and special significance is the following experience of a clergyman while a student at the Mennonite seminary at Amsterdam, told in Notes and Queries, January 14, 1860:

A difficult mathematical problem had been given to his class to solve. He worked on it three nights without success, and on the third night went to bed long after midnight with his head full of figures. The rest of the story is told in his own language, as follows:

"I set to work the same evening, but without success. Another evening was sacrificed to my undertaking, but fruitlessly. At last I bent myself over my figures for a third evening. It was winter, and I calculated till half past one in the morning-all to no purpose! The product was erroneous. Low at heart, I threw down my pencil, which already at that time had beciphered three slates. I hesitated whether I would toil the night through, and begin my calculation anew; as I knew the professor wanted an answer the very same morning. But lo, my candle was already burning in the socket; and, alas, the persons with whom I lived had long gone to rest. Then I also went to bed, my head filled with ciphers; and tired in mind I fell asleep. In the morning I awoke just early enough to dress and prepare myself to go to the lecture; vexed at heart at not having been able to solve the question, and at having to disappoint my teacher. But, O wonder! as I approached my writing table, I found on it a paper, with figures in my own hand, and (think of my astonishment!) the problem on it solved quite aright, and without a single blunder. I wanted to ask my hospita whether any one had been in my room, but was stopped by my own writing. Afterward I told her what had occurred, and she herself wondered at the event, for she assured me no one had entered my apartment. Thus I must have calculated the problem in my sleep, and in the dark, to boot; and what is most remarkable, the computation was so succinct that what I now saw before me on a single folio sheet had required three slatefuls, closely beciphered on both sides, during my waking state. Professor Von Swinden was quite amazed at the event, and declared to me that while calculating the problem himself, he had never once thought of a solution so simple and concise."

Although the clergyman whose experience is here told did not refer it to soul perception and psychic force, it may be assumed that the phenomenɑnwas of that character. He went to sleep with the idea dominant in his mind that the problem must be solved. His soul could solve it by perception and intuition, and in obedience to the desire and command of his physical will performed the task.

How the writing
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was done can only be surmised. physical hand; but if so, sight to guide the hand must have been through soul perception and not by means of the physical eye.

The evidence here cited demonstrates beyond question that the soul, during physical sleep, is or may be active, and is able to manifest and exercise spiritual attributes and powers.

Sleep is the cessation of the operation of the soul upon and through the physical organism, especially the brain.

Dreams are soul perceptions brought to the comprehension of the physical consciousness in the borderland between the sleeping and waking states. Sometimes these impressions are clear and distinct, but usually they are mixed and complicated with physical perceptions incident to the circumstances of awakening, or with the memory of previous incidents perceived in the normal state.

CHAPTER XI.

THE SOUL IS THE MAN-THERE IS A SPIRITUAL BODY-POWERS AND ATTRIBUTES OF THE INCARNATE SOUL-THE EVIDENCE SUMMARIZED.

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If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
-I Corinthians, xv, 44. Revised version.

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HOLD it to be scientifically and positively demonstrated by the evidence cited in the previous chapters that there resides in man a perceptive individualized intelligence which is not dependent upon the physical body for its existence or manifestations. also hold it to be demonstrated by the reproduction of the body to physical perception, both spontaneously and by intent, and in both the waking and sleeping states, that there is a spiritual as well as a physical body, as declared by St. Paul in the quotation standing at the head of this chapter. This spiritual body is the counterpart of the physical, and may be considered as the spiritual tenement of the soul.

That the soul of man is his conscious individuality, his ego, his life, that from it proceed his thoughts, his desires, his affections, his emotions, everything that distinguishes and differentiates him from inanimate matter, is clearly demonstrated by the mental phenomena of everyday life, when considered in connection with the hypothesis herein set forth, and with the