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392 MY LIFEanother book, neither had I the least idea of leavingthe house I was living in, which I had purchased andenlarged a few years before. It was under these circumstancesthat a medium I had visited once inwas staying with friends atLondon, Madame G ,Wimborne, and came to see me, and offered to giveme a siance. One of her controls, an old Scotchphysician, advised me about my health, told me toeat fish, and assured me that I was not coming totheir side for some years yet, as I had a good deal ofwork to do here. The other control, named " Sunshine,"an Indian girl, who seemed to be able to getinformation from many sources, was very positiveher statements. She said, "You won't live herealways. You will come out of this hole. You willcome more into the world, and do something publicfor spiritualism." I replied, " You are quite wrong. Ishall never leave this house now, and I shall notappear in public again." But she insisted that shewas right, and said, " You will see ;and when it comesto pass, remember what I told you." She then said," Fanny [my sister] sends her love. She loved youmore than any one in the world." This I knew to betrue, though during her life I did not so fully realizeit. Then Sunshine gave me her parting words, speakingslowly and distinctly: "The third chapter of yourlife, and your book, is to come. It can be expressedas Satisfaction, Retrospection, and Work," Thesethree words were spoken very impressively, and Iwrote them at once in a small note-book with capitalletters, though I had no notion whatever of what theycould refer to, and no belief that they would be in anyway fulfilled.Yet two months later the first step in the fulfilmentwas taken though Dr. Lunn's invitation to givein