The Spiritualist newspaper > No.238, March 23rd 1877

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Healing Diseases by Spirit Power ... 121
The Cadaverous Odour Appertaining to Certain Spirits.
By the Rev. W. Whitear 122
Spiritualism: a Satanic Agency. By the Rev. 0. Maurice
Davies, D.D., Author of Unorthodox London 122
Dr. Forbes Winslow Called to Account:—Spiritualism
and Insanity ... 123
Physical Science and Spiritual Psychology. By Desmond
Fitz-Gerald, M.S.Tel.E.... 124
A Remarkable Seance in Newcastle:—Wax Casts of the
Hands of a Temporarily Materialised Spirit Taken
under Test Conditions ... 126
Private Seances., By William H. Harrison 126
A Memorial to Dr. Slade 127
The National Association of SpiritualistsMeeting of
the Council 127
Co^k-lane at Kensington ... 128
Spiritualism in St. Petersburg 128
A Trance Address:—Earth-bound and Haunting Spirits... 128
Correspondence:—Haunting Spirits—Art in Hospitals—
The Doctrines of Allan Kardee—A Parliamentary
Committee of Inquiry on the Working of the Lunacy
Laws—Organisation and Co-operation 129
The National Association of Spiritualists:—Conversazione
—Spirit Poetry, ” The Spirit Child” 130
British National Association of SpiritualistsInquirers'
Seances, By Algernon Joy, M.Inst.O.E..,, ... ... ... 182
The Oracle of Pei-tu-Ngan 132
Answers to Correspondents ... ... 132
Paragraphs:—The Dalston Association of Inquirers into
Spiritualism, 123; An Exposer Exposed, 13L ; Passed
to the Higher Life, 131; Life in the Planets, 131; Lan¬
cashire District Spiritualists ... ... 132
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Crookes, F.R.S., Editor of the “Quarterly Journal of Science” (who
admits the reality of the phenomena, but has, up to the present time,
expressed no decided opinion as to their cause); Mr. Alfred R.
Wallace, President of the Biological Section of the British Associa¬
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Society of Great Britain; Mr. Alexander Calder, President of the
British National Association of Spiritualists; the Rev. J. Tyer-
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ESTABLISHED 1870.
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