convinced alone by personal experience and observation."

"I believe you, and your earnest words have sunk deep within my
mind, yet in modern spiritualism I have little faith."

"Mere phenomenal spiritism is of course only designed to arrest the
attention; its other form appeals to the soul, and becomes a part of
the daily lives of those who realize it."

"But I have heard of so much that was contradictory, so much that
cannot be reconciled."

"Neither can we reconcile the usual manifestations of life. Our
daily experiences teach us that seeming absurdities abound on every
hand."

"That is true. I sometimes think I shall never get the evidence
which my nature requires to convince."

"In God's own time and way it will come, and when you are best
fitted to receive it."

"But please go on, Mr. Wyman, and tell me more of your experience."

"I would I could tell you how often when I am weary, my dear Alice
comes and watches over me at night; how truly I feel her thoughts,
which she cannot express in words; and how, when the poor and needy
are suffering, she leads me to where they dwell amid scenes of want.
When my pure child speaks thoughts beyond herself, and describes to
me some vision which I at the same time behold, with the exact look