persed, the house rapidly filled with blind, deaf, and paralytic persons, all seeking for aid and help.

So rapidly did the numbers increase, that Dorothea was forced to open a second house to receive those who came. This did not fail to attract attention, and create much opposition. Many said that Dorothea's influence was but a form of magnetism; others derided and scoffed at her; others, again, were bitterly jealous. Amongst these was the doctor of Männedorf, who appealed to the inspector of health as to whether such an establishment should be tolerated in the Canton of Zurich. In consequence, Dorothea was fined a hundred and fifty francs, and again ordered to clear her houses.

Unable to submit to such a decision, she appealed to the Supreme Tribunal of Zurich. It seemed likely that her appeal would be rejected. Her friends were anxious and dispirited; but Dorothea retired to pray. This was her prayer:-" See, Lord, the Council of Health orders me to send away my sick ones; but I know that I must only obey Thee: show me in Thy Word what is Thy will." She then opened her Bible, and took as an answer the words contained in Daniel vi. 26, 27, From that moment she awaited the issue of the trial with calm courage.

At last M. Spondlin, the advocate who had undertaken the case, was successful, and Dorothea was acquitted unanimously. The formal decree of the Supreme Tribunal, after reciting the facts of the case, held that Mdlle. Trudel had not infringed the Medical Law which forbids the practice of medicine without a legal authorisation, inasmuch as she had not administered any internal or external remedy, all her practices having merely a symbolical meaning. The conclusion was:

"1st. That Mademoiselle Trudel is acquitted. 2nd. That the expenses of the first and second trials be borne by the State. 3rdly. That the present decree be communicated to the Tribunal of the District of Meilen."

Dorothea heard this decision with joy, and continued with fresh energy to devote herself to her patients. Her efforts were unremitting to preserve in the house an atmosphere of prayerful peace. Three times a day did the household unite for instruction and prayer, and Mademoiselle Trudel was ceaseless in her devotion to the individual griefs and hidden sorrows of those who came to her. She believed intensely that the spirit is superior to the body, and can, by union with a heavenly spirit, quell not only all the evil desires of the heart, and the temptations of the devil, but also drive out of the body the sicknesses and diseases which she believed were engendered by want of faith.

Some came to her, hoping that by a subtle mesmeric influence she would banish their bodily sufferings: her honestly outspoken views soon convinced such seekers that Dorothea's system was not one which would suit either their views or inclinations. Until three weeks before her death she worked unremittingly, never sparing herself in any way, living a simple life of devotion to duty and self-sacrifice. Her views will be best seen by a few extracts from her letters and discourses:

It seems to me that the greatest happiness is to be delivered from self, to serve the Lord in his vineyard, to be like Paul, all things to all men. I desire with all my heart that we may all annihilate our self-love. Let the love of Christ and the kingdom be the spring of our lives.

The regenerated Christian should have no passions, especially neither envy nor anger, for they nailed the Christ on the Cross.

With a new heart, all self-interest is gone; we do no longer ask, are we kindly treated? are we hardly used? are we neglected? All that belongs to the old nature.

God will certainly not inhabit a menagerie. As long as we obey our own desires He will not abide with us, but a heart transformed by grace is as a bed of flowers.

Repeating our Lord's words merely is no imitation of His life.

There are sentimental Christians, fair-weather Christians, imaginative Christians, talkative Christians, fashionable Christians, automaton Christians, and half Christians. Strive to be faithful, biblical, apostolic, authentic, sincere Christians.

Whence comes the mortal languor which oppresses Christianity. There are assemblies, not of saints, but of people talking on religious subjects, people who bring themselves to the meeting who cannot give up self.

He who has a spirit of contradiction has not the Spirit of God.

The piety which hates not the sin, but the sinner, is a comedy for the devil. Is it surprising that we do not find peace when we will not learn to conquer ourselves?

Some people are charmed when they are called cunning, but the serpent was very adroit.

The art of educating children is to pray again and again for them.

If the Bible taught the glory esteemed by the world, you would all know it by heart.

Before the Lord can make use of us we must be empty of self.

I know households of Christians, where peace is only kept by the precaution of never speaking with sincerity one to the other. When the nerves are in a shattered state, every one around is guilty of cruelty. The guilty party is the old nature.

Nothing is more odious than a woman who rules her husband. If a woman is cleverer than her husband, her duty is to let no one perceive it.

The tone of Dorothea's writing recalls that of Thomas à Kempis, resignation and self-sacrifice are the key-notes. She studiously taught all who came to her that she could do nothing; that no power was hers, that she could only direct them to Him who was truth and life.

On the 20th of August, 1862, she died, after a short attack of fever. She had a presentiment of approaching death, which led her to take leave of all the inmates of her house ere she retired to her room, which she was never to leave again alive. With her last words she exhorted those whom she had so long

termed her children to obey the word of God faithfully. "Disobedience fascinates the understanding and dazzles the eyes; persevere in simplicity and faith, for he who has not the simpli city of a child sees everything falsely." Only one cry of sadness ever escaped her lips, when, during a paroxysm of pain, she exclaimed, "O faithlessness, how hast thou deceived me, and I never even perceived thy workings!"

Her children were gathered round her praying when she breathed her last. A strange, deep calm settled on the house; there were no tears, no cries, no violent emotion; those who loved Dorothea and Dorothea's Lord felt that she had but gone home, to the home she had so often longed to enter.

FURTHER EVIDENCE ABOUT FROGS, AND A WORD ABOUT MUD-FISH.

MR. AITKEN, a most trustworthy officer in the Australian expedition in search of Burke and Wills conducted by Mr. Alfred William Howitt some years ago, writing in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, in 1870, says: "I should like to bring under the notice of the Institute a feature in the natural history of the frog; at present, I believe, unknown to the scientific world, but which must be of the deepest interest, not only to the student of natural history, but also to the student of geology.

"There are districts often exceeding 1,000 square miles in extent, in the interior of the Australian continent, in which there is no surface-water for many months, and, in some instances for years; yet as soon as the rain falls in sufficient quantities to fill the water holes, they are swarming with young frogs. Before the rainfall, one might dig for 10 or 12 feet without finding the slightest moisture, much less water; the whole of the ground is baked hard and perfectly dry, and no sign of animal life apparently exists in it or on it.

"Even vegetable life has ceased to exist, and the only remnant left is a withered and half-dead salt-bush here and there. Yet rain in such country has the effect of changing, as if by magic, the whole aspect of affairs, comparatively speaking, a desert, was in a day, transformed into an Eden. Plants sprung up everywhere, ducks and water-hens appeared in vast numbers, and swarms of tadpoles peopled the water-holes. I could easily account for the vegetable life, but the tadpoles puzzled me, till

a native boy, not more than 10 years old, opened my eyes, and satisfactorily solved a problem in geology which had never been, to my mind, satisfactorily solved by the greatest geologists who have written on the subject. Mr. A. W. Howitt and I, with a black boy of the age above mentioned, had made a two days' journey on horseback from the last known water, without finding any more, and had we gone on further, our horses would probably have been unable to return. We were much in want of water, and had camped for the night in the midst of a great many dried-up water-holes, with a few salt-bushes growing on their margins, intending to return the next morning.

"I noticed the boy examining the dry surface of the waterholes, and went to see what he was doing. He pointed out an indistinct and crooked mark, on what had once been the mud, and following it to where it apparently ceased, in the shade of a small salt-bush, he began to dig with a sharp stick, and in a short time turned out a ball of clay about eight inches in diameter, and quite dry outside, which, when broken, disclosed a frog shut up in a beautifully puddled cell, with more than half-a-pint of fine, clear, cold water. We afterwards dug out many others, drinking the water and eating the frogs. A sudden or gradual deposition of matter over such ground would have shut up these frogs for ever; and if they live through months, and even years, in such a situation, within range of the effects of a scorching sun, we can understand how they have lived for ages in the cool and moist recesses of the rocks in which they are sometimes found. The theory of living frogs getting accidentally buried in accumulating mud or sand, if examined, will not stand good, for the compression to which such rocks are afterwards sometimes subjected would certainly kill them; while the cells in which I have seen them would stand compression to half their original bulk without materially affecting the animal."—p. 87.

Mr. Aitken has here given a very satisfactory exemplification of the mode in which toads, frogs and lizards, become involved in those mysterious subterranean cells in which they must have existed for many centuries, a fact which scientific men in general have rejected with the same obstinacy that they have rejected spiritual phenomena, although this fact has been practically demonstrated in hundreds of instances, and in all regions of the globe. The crocodile which Humboldt says burst up out of the hard-baked clay of his tent floor, and rushed out at the cry of some animal-was existing in South America in precisely the same condition as these frogs in Australia. They were awaiting in a torpid state the return of rain, and had no rain ever come, or the animal cry which awoke the crocodile, nature would have enabled them to sleep on there for ever.

In the same Report of the New Zealand Institute, p. 402, Dr. Hector called the attention of the members to the mud-fish existing in the river at Hokitika, and the Hon. W. Fox said that they were to be found in various places, and he had seen one dug out of a gravelly clay ten feet below the surface at Rangitiki. These mud-fish exist in the rivers of Northern Australia, and notoriously can sink themselves deep in the mud of those rivers below the influence of air and water, and should the river dry up and the mud bake hard, can continue any length of time alive till the return of the flood.

A friend of mine who has lived for years in India, says.that what long astonished him, was to see tanks which had been for many months totally dried up, and the mud at their bottoms baked hard, immediately on the return of rain become full of large fish actively swimming about though there was no opening into any river, or other water whence they could have come.

All these facts show that nature has provided for the life of certain of her creatures in a way incomprehensible to the physiologists, without asking their leave or troubling herself about their incredulity. Spiritualists have only to imitate this admirable sang froid as regards the spiritual stumbling-blocks of these gentlemen..

THE MYSTERIOUS CROSSES IN THE GRAND DUCHY OF BADEN.

WE have learned from a private source, as well as from various letters printed in the Univers originally, and reprinted in the Tablet of June 15th, that the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of Baden have been thrown into a violent state of excitement by the sudden appearance of a multitude of crosses and other emblems of a more or less ominous character, these being impressed-it is supposed by miraculous agency-upon the glass of windows in houses, public buildings and carriages; and also, showing themselves in numerous places simultaneously.

We will present our readers in the first instance, with an extract from a private letter, written by a lady from BadenBaden, and now first printed. She thus writes:

"Baden-Baden, March 15, 1872. "Since some days the town is in excitement. At the convent are seen crosses of a reddish black upon the window panes, and upon many windows death's heads, and faces. At