It is now two years since the Progressive Library commenced operations for the circulation of Spiritualistic Literature. The sole object of the originator and promoter of this Institution has been to serve the cause of Spiritual progress by providing a means which has placed the whole range of Progressive Literature within the reach of the people at large. The result has been encouraging and satisfactory. Hundreds of choice volumes have been circulated and perused, that otherwise would have lain on the shelf, leaving many minds unblessed by their enlightening and elevating influences.

Recent inquiries from various parties have suggested ways for extending the usefulness of the Library. Institutions should serve the public, and not the public support institutions in answer to begging solicitations: hence this Circular is not written on behalf of the Progressive Library, but on account of the good it may accomplish, if its arrangements are made known and taken advantage of.

In many towns and villages there are individuals and families who quietly and perseveringly climb the hill of spiritual development, but who, unaided by congenial association or suitable books, labour all alone without any helping hand. Their churches afford them neither companionship nor enlightenment; the mutual improvement and educational associations of the day are materialistic and physical, or sectarian in tendency, and at enmity with the sublime teachings of the great truths of Spiritualism; spiritual works are also very expensive, and the means of procuring them is not at all commensurate with the necessity and demand for them: hence thousands of aspiring souls throughout the land, devoid of association, are hungering and thirsting after the works of celebrated authors, which they have neither the means nor the opportunity of procuring. To meet these circumstances, it is proposed that Parcels of Books be supplied to readers on the following