“To WEALTHY SPIRITUALISTS—­A Lady Medium of tried power wishes to meet with an elderly gentleman who would be willing to give her a comfortable home and maintenance in Exchange for her Spiritualistic services, as her guides consider her health is too delicate for public sittings:  London preferred.—­Address ‘Mary,’ Office of Light.”

          Are we going back to the days of the Judges, when
          wealthy Micah set up his private ephod, teraphim, and
          Levite?

     [93] Consider Tertullian’s “sister” ("hodie apud nos"),
          who conversed with angels, saw and heard mysteries,
          knew men’s thoughts, and prescribed medicine for their
          bodies (De Anima, cap. 9).  Tertullian tells us that
          this woman saw the soul as corporeal, and described its
          colour and shape.  The “infidel” will probably be unable
          to refrain from insulting the memory of the ecstatic
          saint by the remark, that Tertullian’s known views
          about the corporeality of the soul may have had
          something to do with the remarkable perceptive powers
          of the Montanist medium, in whose revelations of the
          spiritual world he took such profound interest.

     [94] See the New York World for Sunday, 21st October,
          1888; and the Report of the Seybert Commission,
          Philadelphia, 1887.

     [95] Dr. Newman’s observation that the miraculous
          multiplication of the pieces of the true cross (with
          which “the whole world is filled,” according to Cyril
          of Jerusalem; and of which some say there are enough
          extant to build a man-of-war) is no more wonderful
          than that of the loaves and fishes, is one that I do
          not see my way to contradict.  See Essay on Miracles.
          2d ed. p. 163.

     [96] An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine,
          by J.H.  Newman, D.D., pp. 7 and 8. (1878.)

     [97] Dr. Newman faces this question with his customary
          ability.  “Now, I own, I am not at all solicitous to
          deny that this doctrine of an apostate Angel and his
          hosts was gained from Babylon:  it might still be
          Divine nevertheless.  God who made the prophet’s ass
          speak, and thereby instructed the prophet, might
          instruct His Church by means of heathen Babylon”
          (Tract 85, p. 83).  There seems to be no end to the
          apologetic burden that Balaam’s ass may carry.

     [98] Nineteenth Century, May 1889 (p. 701).

     [99] I trust it may not be supposed that I undervalue M.
          Renan’s labours, or intended to speak slightingly of
          them.