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CHAPTER XXIVPREDICTIONS FULFILLED: LATEST HONOURS.Having devoted some space to an account of myvarious experiences in connection with modernspiritualism, which have, however, been far less extraordinarythan those of many of my friends, I maynot improperly conclude this record of my life andexperience with a statement of a few of the predictionswhich I have received at different times, andwhich have been to some extent fulfilled.In 1870 and the following years several communicationsin automatic writing were received through amember of my family purporting to be from mybrother William, with whom I had lived so manyyears. In some of these he referred to my disappointmentsin obtaining employment and to mymoney losses, always urging me not to trouble myselfabout my affairs, which would certainly improve ; butI was not to be in a hurry. These messages nevercontained any proofs of identity, and I did not thereforefeel much interest in them, and their ultimatefulfilment, though in quite unexpected ways, cannot beconsidered to be of any great importance.Some years later, when we were living at Dorking,my little boy, then five years old, became verydelicate, and seemed pining away without any perceptibleailment. At that time I was being treated