A BAPTIST MINISTER

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1928, Page 5

A BAPTIST MINISTER

TELLS OF REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. Rev. F. C. Spiers, a Baptist clergyman and ex-Prcsident of the National Free Church Council, in an address at Leamington—“Does Death End AH,” told'of a remarkable experience. He said he sent his son, aged eight, and his mother to the seaside for a holiday in Lincolnshire. He then went to a cinema where at 4.45 he felt his hand touched. Continuing, he said: “I saw my son in a seat - next to me. I felt upset and went home to heel. There was a fearful thunderstorm during which there came a telephone message stating my son was drowned. At the inquest I learned that my son entered the water at 4.20 and expired at 4.45. I tell this story as an honest Englishman. Twenty-five times since I have had absolute evidence that he is alive and well, on the other side, of course. We cannot make religion of this sort of thing. If I thought a man with his folly and lost sins was the best the universe could do, I would willingly die cursing with my last breath.”