News from the Other Side
By Editor
News from the Other Side.—Prof. William James of Harvard University died August 26. He was a noted Spiritualist, altho he probably would not have called himself by that name. However, he held all the essentials of modern Spiritualism, and believed in a life beyond the grave, and made preparations before his death to demonstrate it after he died. He left letters, for instance, containing profound secrets in his own life, known only to himself. These letters are not to be opened until one year after his death. The test will be made through Mrs. Leonora Piper, November next, in London. She will tell through the spirit of Professor James what is in those letters, and later the letters will be opened to confirm it. One friend, Rev. Dr. Wiggins of Brookline, Massachusetts, contends that he has already felt the personality of Professor James at different times, but has as yet been unable to communicate with him. There will be no question in our mind but that something alleged to be the spirit of Professor James will communicate with the psychists. We shall not at all be surprised if the contents of the letters will be revealed before the letters are opened; but we are just as certain that the spirit which claims to be Professor James is a demon, or an angel of the bottomless pit, and that the letters will be divulged through the same channel, as we are that Professor James himself is dead. The Word of God declares that the dead know not anything, and the same Word also reveals that the evil spirits, or demons, come back in the guise of the spirits of the dead.