Transcriber's Note
The page numbering in this volume starts with 71. See the preceding volume 8 titled "Health, Healing and Faith" for the first 70 pages.
Praying for Money
- Spiritual Telepathy
- Day of Pentecost
- Axioms
- Praying for Money
- Unanswered Prayers
- Prayer for Others
- Forms of Prayer
By
RUSSELL H. CONWELL
VOLUME 9
NATIONAL
EXTENSION UNIVERSITY
597 Fifth Avenue, New York
Effective Prayer
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Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Chapter I
Spiritual Telepathy
IT would be no more surprising for the discovery of a means of directspirit communication with the spiritual life than it was to be convincedthat Marconi had discovered a sure method of telegraphing andtelephoning without wires. The discovery of the laws which madeelectricity a servant of mankind was an astonishing revelation which wasas unbelievable as is the law of spiritual telepathy. Human telepathy,which is a mysterious means of communication between persons without theuse of known material agency, is in the initial and experimental stage.But the possibility of such thought transference is generally admitted.The psychical researchers into that science should be encouraged in every way. On the eve of every such advance in human achievement therealways appear a host of superstitious dreamers and wild prophets, evenin the study of science, who hinder the sane searcher and often becloudthe mind of the student who is on the direct road to the neededdiscovery.
Spiritualism, which is here used as a comprehensive term, frequentlyconfuses the deliberations of honest truth-seekers with the advertisedworks of deceivers, but it includes much in its curriculum that is worthcareful study. Among the host of disordered or weak minds who claim somuch that is foolish in connection with spiritual revelations there area respectable number of thoughtful, conservative searchers who cannot beeasily deceived. In all the successful "isms" in a Christiancivilization, and in all the popular religious sects, there is ever somebasic truth. Some one idea is so true and so strongly emphasized that itoften carries along a back-breaking load of absurd theories. The thoughtless throng hears of several well-authenticated cases of fraud,or of absurd teaching, in connection with spiritual meetings, ormessages, and leaps to the conviction that all claims of so-calledspiritualists are not worthy of consideration. So many thousands havetried so sincerel