ON THE OTHER SIDE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 43, 15 November 1926, Page 9

ON THE OTHER SIDE

DO THE DEAD SURVIVE? SIR OLIVER LODGE S CONVICTION LIFE A PERMANENT THING •gr Telegraph.—Pbes 1 ? association. Copyright. London. November . IS. • A striking appeal to disregard death was made by Sir Oliver Lodge in a lecture at the Memorial Hall. He said: "We should think about the grave as little as possible. I have never seen my boy’s grave in France.

He lias asked me not to. He says: ? “I take no interest | in that grave. Ij never was in the I grave in my life.”! If people could I only get over the I trouble about inter- j ment, said Sir Oli- ; ver Lodge, and the i mediaeval supersti- i tion of lying there

for centuries await- , ing the general Resurrection, they would begin to regard death as an episode, and not be afraid of thing that was bound to come. Cold science sooner, or later would..find itself seriously bound to face the question of survival. The few people who felt that thev had communicated. with friends on the other side learnt that the appearance of those friends was not greatlv changed. They still had bodily manifestations. ■ “I may be asked, ‘How do you know?”’ Sir Oliver Lodge •ontmuel “The reply is that I cannot doubt it. because I am in occasional touch with them. By evidence I have gradual.v become convinced Io tiic best of mv scientific belief I assure yo i that what I am saving is the truth,-name-ly that life is a permanent thing which interacts with matter for . the time, then leaves it and goes on to ■other surroundings. Whether these are happier I am unable definitely to sav.” ... .