CHAPTER III. THE COMING LIFE

Now, leaving this large and possibly contentious
subject of the modifications which such new revelations
must produce in Christianity, let us try to follow what
occurs to man after death. The evidence on this point
is fairly full and consistent. Messages from the dead
have been received in many lands at various times,
mixed up with a good deal about this world, which we
could verify. When messages come thus, it is only
fair, I think, to suppose that if what we can test is
true, then what we cannot test is true also. When in
addition we find a very great uniformity in the
messages and an agreement as to details which are not
at all in accordance with any pre-existing scheme of
thought, then I think the presumption of truth is very
strong. It is difficult to think that some fifteen or
twenty messages from various sources of which I
have personal notes, all agree, and yet are all wrong,
nor is it easy to suppose that spirits can tell the
truth about our world but untruth about their own.

I received lately, in the same week, two accounts
of life in the next world, one received through the
hand of the near relative of a high dignitary of the
Church, while the other came through the wife of a
working mechanician in Scotland. Neither could have