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Success as a pulpit orator was assured by the charularly handsome, and often when he spoke his face was irradiated like that of a seraph, and the wolance, e him with their ardent praises That he had remained faithful to his wife in spite of this adoration was evidence of her great beauty of character She was, indeed, his safeguard and his hourly monitor while she lived

For him she had sacrificed all her friends in the East She came to the mountains without a murmur, she bore with him, cheered him, upheld him in a hundred ways--and when she died his world went black as ht It was as if in the ht had gone out in his hand For days he beat his head against the wall, crying defiant curses against his God; but in the end he sank into voiceless despair Then it was, as he lay prone and passive, that he began to hear s on the walls of his cavern of despond He rose and listened He groped his way towards the diht He returned to the world of men His faith in the Scriptures eakened; but he soon discovered a wondrous change of heart towards those who claimed to be intermediaries between the worlds of matter and of spirit He turned his attention to the study of the physical evidences of life after death

Up to that iven but little credence to Mrs Lae of faith, and, as Viola had been away at school otten that she was concerned in the mother's confession

The disclosure of her powers, as he told Dr Britt--after they were both involved in the curious case--ca, a few days after Adele's death "I was sitting with Mrs La her aid and comfort Viola occupied a low chair beside the shaded la to , in deeply passionate tones, 'I would give all my hope of life for one whisper froan to darken At first I thought the effect lay in ht had actually begun to fail We all watched it in silence for a ot to fill the lamp'