The weak joint in Mr Hill's armour is what we should have expected to be the strongest. He gives no criterion for dis tinguishing between such undoubted facts as the apparition of Samuel before Saul, and the Witch of Endor, and the devils' possession of the swine which ran into the sea, from the Spiritist apparitions and possessions. It is quite open to the Spiritists to say that the apparition of the Spirit-bride, with finger pointed heavenward, which was afterwards dis covered to consist of a mask, a limb of a painter's lay figure, and some musiin, is not intrinsically more improbable than the apparition of Samuel. They may assertthat there is no more a priori improbability in. the spirit of Old Pomp — a deceased horse — making its presence known by unmis takeable trampling ; or in a departed cat informing an entranced stance that she was slaughtered young by a hard-hearted old maid, than in the possession of swine by the "Legion of Evil Spirits." The intrinsic probability is the same. It is to the authority we must turn. We will, therefore, quote Mr Hill on this point : —

Before turning from these physical pheno mena, we must estimate the worth of a favourite statement of the Spiritualists — namely, if we reject wonderful things in this age, notwithstanding evidence, we must reject the wonderful' things recorded in the Bible, a3 these also rest on evidence ; if we turn away from Spiritualism in books published now, we must turn away from Spiritualism in a book given to the world ISOO years ago. Now this by no means follows. Samuel came up, not by the power of the witch, for she was terrified when she Baw him, but by the power of God, to give a message to Saul ; and Moses and Elias appeared on the Mount to commune with Christ ere His struggle began. But surely there is a wide difference between angels and these spirits of the departed coming on an errand from God, and thou sands of spirits coming of their own will to chatter and sing, and play fantastic tricks. 