A BEECHER ON THE SPIRITS.—Dr. Edward Beecher, oldest brother of Henry Ward Beecher, and author of the "Conflict of Ages," lately preached to his people at Galesburg, Ills., a sermon on spirits, the substance of which is reported to us by one of his hearers. He declared the present system of Spiritualism with its mediums, table-tippings, etc., a satanic counterfeit, observing that often when God is about to put in operation some new agency for good, the Devil, perceiving it, manages to get in ahead a miserable counterfeit, as in this case, so that the genuine may be discredited. Undoubtedly, he said, spirits are witnesses of our affairs, and are more interested in this world than in their own, because, while all is safe and quiet there, here is the danger and the conflict between good and evil. Spirits not only have intercourse with men, but sometimes materially assist them in their extremity; besides the examples recorded in the Bible, instances of such aid have occurred in modern times, as in the wars between Protestantism and Papacy, and particularly in the sieges of places in Holland. But, he said, men have communication with good spirits only when they have become holy enough to be admitted to such society; and the man of God, living above his fellows and rebuking their wickedness, though he seem to be alone, may have such sympathy and companionship from the other world that he can say as did the prophet, "They that are for me are more than they that are against me."