Apparently he could not see this document from his
present position, and if his memory failed him he would
be very likely to go wrong about it.

Many mistakes may, I think, be explained in this
fashion. It has been asserted from the other side, and
the assertion seems to me reasonable, that when they
speak of their own conditions they are speaking of what
they know and can readily and surely discuss; but that
when we insist (as we must sometimes insist) upon
earthly tests, it drags them back to another plane of
things, and puts them in a position which is far more
difficult, and liable to error.

Another point which is capable of being used
against us is this: The spirits have the greatest
difficulty in getting names through to us, and it is
this which makes many of their communications so vague
and unsatisfactory. They will talk all round a
thing, and yet never get the name which would clinch
the matter. There is an example of the point in a
recent communication in Light, which describes how
a young officer, recently dead, endeavoured to get a
message through the direct voice method of Mrs.
Susannah Harris to his father. He could not get his
name through. He was able, however, to make it clear
that his father was a member of the Kildare Street Club
in Dublin. Inquiry found the father, and it was then
learned that the father had already received an
independent message in Dublin to say that an inquiry