to the present European War, which gives me opportunity to exhort nations and governments.  And for this purpose, to communicate other important things in this treatise, we give only an epitome of the treatise which will be published in another convenient time.  But Mr. Mansfield who has astonished many people in all quarters of the Globe by having given more than forty thousand answers to sealed letters directed to departed persons, became so remarkable, that he in connexion with the well known spiritualist Otto Kunz deserved a peculiar treatise, and appears also in this connexion of matters as a peculiar witness; because that which has been made evident in many cases in which we tried remarkable mediums, was in a peculiar manner confirmed, while we tried the spirits of J. V. Mansfield, to wit, that he has certain guardians by whom many are deluded, because those guardians give through him answers which are found correct, when they reach and control the writers of the sealed letters directed to their departed.  But when this is not the case, answers are not correct.  Mr. Mansfield told me, that the largest portion of his answers is correct.  Such points in regard to the relations in which the departed have been with the inquirers are revealed in the answers, as Mr. Mansfield could not know them.  From this circumstance is also explicable, how people could be so moved, that he had received many thousands of letters, although each applicant had to send one dollar fee to the medium, and three dollars in case of a guarantee that either an answer, if received would be sent, or the money returned.  When we speak of correct statements in many cases, we add that in those communications was much of delusion regarding the spirit world.  At length when the measure of abominations was filled, I had to try his spirits in the manner, the substance of which is given in this epitome, the treatise being prepared to be published, whenever a publisher is ready to publish a new book, which would contain that and other treatises.  From that treatise it is evident, that when Otto Kunz wrote his letter to his departed wife and sent it to Mr. Mansfield to be answered by his mediumship, the tyrants by whom Mr. Mansfield is guarded, took her under their subjection.  But to give in a new manner a most solemn warning to all spiritualists who will not progress on our ground, I was sent to Mansfield, and our guardians took under their control Charlotte Kunz and the spirits who are writing through Mr. Mansfield.  The enemies of the truth, that departed spirits may use men as their writingrnediums must explain the answers by assertions which in most cases appear most ridiculous, for instance, I heard the assertion, that Mansfield opens the letters.  But he returns sealed letters as he receives them; although we would not deny the possibility of temptation to open one or the other letter of persons, with whom his guardians were not congenial, and therefore could not give an answer.  But if I had shown to him