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that time I was living at Parkstone in rather poor health and 

 subject to chronic asthma, with palpitations and frequent 

 bronchitis, from which I never expected to recover. I had 

 given up lecturing, and had no expectation of ever writing 

 another book, neither had I the least idea of leaving the 

 house I was living in, which I had purchased and enlarged a 

 few years before. It was under these circumstances that a 



medium I had visited once in London, Madame G , was 



staying with friends at Wimborne, and came to see me, and 

 offered to give me a seance. One of her controls, an old 

 Scotch physician, advised me about my health, told me to eat 

 fish, and assured me that I was not coming to their side for 

 some years yet, as I had a good deal of work to do here. 

 The other control, named " Sunshine," an Indian girl, who 

 seemed to be able to get information from many sources, 

 was very positive in her statements. She said, " You won't 

 live here always. You will come out of this hole. You will 

 come more into the world, and do something public for spirit- 

 ualism." I replied, " You are quite wrong. I shall never 

 leave this house now, and I shall not appear in public again." 

 But she insisted that she was right, and said, " You will see ; 

 and when it comes to pass, remember what I told you." She 

 then said, " Fanny (my sister) sends her love. She loved 

 you more than any one in the world." This I knew to be 

 true, though during her life I did not so fully realize it. 

 Then Sunshine gave me her parting words, speaking slowly 

 and distinctly : " The third chapter of your life, and your 

 book, is to come. It can be expressed as Satisfaction, Re- 

 trospection, and Work." These three words were spoken 

 very impressively, and I wrote them at once in a small note- 

 book with capital letters, though I had no notion whatever of 

 what they could refer to, and no belief that they would be in 

 any way fulfilled. 



Yet two months later the first step in the fulfilment was 

 taken through Dr. Lunn's invitation to give a lecture at 

 Davos, and my acceptance of it, due mainly to the tempta- 

 tion of a week in Switzerland free of cost and with a pleasant 

 party. As already described (chapter xxxii.), this lecture 



