MEDIUM'S SERMON

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20180, 7 March 1931, Page 3

MEDIUM'S SERMON

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A PRESSMAN'S CRITICISM. I 5 1 S* I ;"i"*' *}<- • * * ' . (raok oub ows cojuucsr oxd ent.) ' LONDON, January £9. Mrs Meurig Morris, a medium whose sermdns are stated .to be delivered in a trance wtich ar? claimed to come from a spirit she calls ''Power," gave a de» monstration on Sunday night at tho . Fortune Theatre, To test' the, genuineness "of her powers, she had - agreed to deliver a sermon pn a text which, was unknown to her, and was only to ha revealed after she' had passed into a trance, s j( 1 ; f • *'• ' t v ',* ! "While,a hymn, was being sung,, Mrs Morris was eeen apparently«passing into a trance. Meanwhile the text for the sermon was handed,up in a sealed envelope, followed by; an announcement that it was, n» .to then, known only to the person who' selected it. , The 1 envelope was opened and the text tead out, the J4th' verse of the lltjh chapter 1 of Proverbst "Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety." Without hesitation,' Mrs Morris.began to spoak on the text,, Her pennon lasted 401 minutes, and "during the whole of it she never paused or faltered. She illus., trated her points with many gestures. 1 Sample of the Sermon. "When one • gives counsel upon ~ the earth plane, or upon the plane beyond death," Mrs Morripi. began, "that counsel is according to the mind and according to the outlook of one's own opinion. "But when you see,that the outlook and the mind that manifests itself herein is but a state of development, one must admit that this counsel shows a state of expression of divinity and of the growfh of the soul. "I want to say that, although we have come to' give" our message, many will say to give counsel to the children of the earth, yet at the same time we know that-it depends upon you/all whether you are ready to receive it. Being part of. Grod, you must of necessity have all the attributes, have all the seeds, within you. "Let your wider vision—tlie vision of the soul—move out with its higher range oft vision, and aid in revolutionising the whole putlook of mankind. "The world beyond is ' just' a -little different from that qf the physical jflane, and thought; is.jempjoyed more and developed more." Prew' Comment. The representative of the "Daily Mail," who arranged the test a®d supplied the text for the sermon, has »Qm« criticism to jmskeu (

"I have heard thiw 2£oiTi#?jj i sermons," fee 'says,., "and ■. jaj private ; seanee X had wrth.. -•pWtcontrol, he talked to me « great deal about, the other, world; *nd t occasions the young mWipm v ihH»4\ same pfcrases-^many.* ,qf which are almost strwg : them.| together in' different ( C9ntpXts,; It'H • now' very : obvious • to; .'»)a,./ii»at>Mr»,: Morris could preach a sermon' on any subject, provides »hq wwV. out to her, 'and she would nae The flame; .phrases time. Whatever mtfy 'be the-caiwe, it is the extrap,rdjM^3 e %, morphia of. M» Morris from timid femininity, to' ; maseuty»|y that jimpresses people, * Jjbbs nigat impressiveoess of her appeatyncfe .waa 1 enhanced when eh# inrqed Tpuna in trance! and delivered hw sermon to the curtains at the back o$ ihe'stage./lhe explanation of this, $s given to mp »*' that 'Powjt,' when M wJwb.J*, nlon on this earth, is also speaking to an audience on his own plane, ana -he often overlooks the people Jon th# physical world., To the sceptic, thf, ' agnostic, and ..everi to tons of thousands of people .open minds,' Morris." is an extremely clever ,W<)maii. Bnt her apiritnalism ie>unconvincing" , , .instated to be tlie first prosecutfonof. its kind in Wellington, two people wore convicted' nn<i ordered toptjy; coats.in the Wellington PpJw Court recently on » of permitting dogs to run loose 'in a pußhc , g«rden r ». Counsel for the City Counqij said -by-law game into operation in "1909,. "In thespycnfeg we-dp .Rot Mk/fop a. substantial penaltyhe . said. ™e simply wish to brine: the matter, to, the notice of the public aa a warning/