GLIMPSES OF THE SUPERNATURAL.

The Other World;

OR, GLIMPSES OF THE SUPERNATURAL.

BEING FACTS, RECORDS, AND
TRADITIONS

RELATING TO DREAMS, OMENS, MIRACULOUS OCCURRENCES,
APPARITIONS, WRAITHS, WARNINGS, SECOND-SIGHT,
WITCHCRAFT, NECROMANCY, ETC.

EDITED BY
THE REV. FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, D.C.L.
Vicar of All Saints’, Lambeth.

IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.

HENRY S. KING AND CO., LONDON.
1875.

(All rights reserved.)

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
AUGUSTA,
COUNTESS OF STRADBROKE,
OF HENHAM HALL, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK,
THESE VOLUMES
ARE,
BY HER LADYSHIP’S KIND PERMISSION,
VERY RESPECTFULLY
Dedicated.

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“It is often asked—Do you believe in Prophecies and Miracles? Yes and no,one may answer; that depends. In general, yes; doubtless we believe inthem, and are not of the number of those who ‘pique themselves,’ asFénelon said, ‘on rejecting as fables, without examination, all thewonders that God works.’ But if you come to the particular, and say—Doyou believe in such a revelation, such an apparition, such a cure?—hereit is that it behoves us not to forget the rules of Christian prudence,nor the warnings of Holy Writ, nor the teaching of Theologians and Saints,nor, finally, the decrees of Councils, and the motives of those decrees.Has the proper Authority spoken? If it has spoken, let us bow with all therespect due to grave and mature ecclesiastical judgments, even where theyare not clothed with infallible authority; if it has not spoken, let usnot be of those who reject everything in a partizan spirit, and want toimpose this unbelief upon everybody; nor of those who admit everythinglightly, and want alike to impose their belief; let us be careful indiscussing a particular fact, not to reject the very principle of theSupernatural, but neither let us shut our eyes to the evidence oftestimony; let us be prudent, even to the most careful scrutiny—thesubject-matter requires it, the Scriptures recommend it—but let us not besceptics; let us be sincere, but not fanatical: that is the true mean. Andlet us not forget that most often the safest way in these matters is notto hurry one’s judgment, not to decide sharply and affirm absolutely—in aword, not to anticipate, in one sense or the other, the judgment of thosewhose place and mission it is to examine herein; but to await, in thesimplicity of faith and of Christian wisdom, a decision which marks out awise rule, although not always with absolute certainty.”—Dupanloup,Bishop of Orleans, “On Contemporary Prophecies.”

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