A MESSAGE MEETING

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1823, 1 August 1906, Page 3

A MESSAGE MEETING

At His M-jiaty’s Theatre last night the | Rev. L )ie F Prior conducted a flewer . seance message meeting, with clairvoyant descriptions and psychometric tests. Mr i Meokrell, President of the Spiritualist Society, occupied the chair. For nearly two hours Mrs Prior went rapidly through a series of t.st?, increasing tbo cnthusia-m of believers and surprising those of a sceptical turn of mind. In nearly every case the pe sors who sent flowers or other missive! for te-ts admittod the accuracy of tho descriptions, and in more than one caso some who bad not even suit up article? received answers to questions that they bad in theirminds. Amung-t the few who did not acknowledge the accuracy of the descriptions was a genial business man who was told that undor certain cond.t ons he was apt to "explode” into language of a kind that gave vent to his feelings. The gentleman would not own up to any lit’.lo weakness in that direction. The most remarkable test, perhaps, was that of a gentleman who was informed that the body of his mother hid been exhumed, and that thon it had been found gbe had been alive when buried—slater monts acknowledged by the gentleman to bofsets. At the conclusion of the seance the chairman expressed a hope that tbero would be a large attendance at their next meeting. Ha said the object in bringing such able leoturora to Gisborno was really for tho

bonofit of those who wore sooptioal, Spiritualists know thoro was a life boyond the gravo and requirod no further convincing. Ho dsolarod I hit nino-tonths of tbe soiontifio mon woro spiritualists, and said that mon whoso opinion would be acooplod without question on soiontifio mattors, yot had thoir view on spiiitualinn doublod. Many ministers, ho olaimod, boliovod in spiritualism. Ho oould show them that Gcnoral Booth was an avowed spiritualist, for hod ho not doolurod that ho had oormnuuion with his doad wife V Tho Gonoral would dcolaro himself a spiritualist, only that would provont his usofulnoss in his groat work, tho more mootion of tho word spiritualism boing enough to make some pooplo thirlc that if they woro not mad thoy woro nearly akin

to it. Ho prophesied that many olorgymen who now denounced spiritual'sra and held aloof from it as thoy bad from tho Salvation Army when it was first organised would yot become warm advocates of it. •' Why," said the chairman jocularly, "thoy will yot bo ooming and rubbing nosos with spiritualists." (Laughtor.) Tho mooting concluded with the Doxology.