The Debatable Land between this World and the Next
With Illustrative Narrations

Table of Contents

Preface
Prefatory address to the Protestant clergy
Book I. Touching Communication of Religious Knowledge to Men:
1. Of human infallibility
2. Of mediate spiritual revealings
3. Of inspiration
4. Difficulties and prejudices
Book II. Some Characteristics of the Phenomena:
1. Their coming usually unexpected
2. Animals perceiving spiritual phenomena
3. Universality of spiritual manifestations
4. Spiritual phenomena sometimes result in seeming trifles
Book III. Physical Manifestations:
1. The spirit-rap
2. Moving ponderable bodies by occult agency
3. Direct spirit writing
4. Spirit touches
Book IV. Identity of Spirits:
1. Stubborn facts connecting two worlds
2. A case of identity three hundred years old
3. A beautiful spirit manifesting herself
Book V. The Crowning Proof of Immortality:
1. The great faith-article of the first century
2. Apparitions showing themselves spontaneously
3. My own experience touching apparitions
4. A near relative shows herself, throughout five years, to a surviving friend
5. What apparitions are, and how formed
Book VI. Spiritual Gifts of the First Century Appearing in our Own Times:
1. Cures by spiritual agency
2. Other spiritual gifts
Book VII. The Conclusion of the Whole Matter:
1. Summary
2. What underlies Christ's teachings, as foundation-motive
Index.