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CHAPTER XI.
THE SUPERNATUEAL NOISES.
The subject of supernatural manifestations is one on which mortals must agree to differ. One half of humanity refuses to give credence to anything but what it can see and handle, and regards those who believe in spiritual influences of any kind as the dupes and votaries of degrading superstition; while the other half has a deeply rooted, if indefinable, faith in second sight, mysterious intuitions, and communications from the unseen. The Apostle's Creed contains a sentence which is frequently interpreted as embodying belief in some kind of intercourse between the dead and the living, and even between those who, though absent from each other in the body, are present in the spirit, when it states, "1 believe in the Communion of Saints/' In this Mrs. Wesley had a firm faith, having been heard by her son John, during her widowhood, to say, that she was often as fully persuaded of her deceased husband's presence with her as if she could see him with her bodily eyes. Her sons, inheriting her temperament to the full, always found an irresistible attraction in the subject; John iu-
