INVOKING THE DEAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2004, 17 July 1919, Page 3

INVOKING THE DEAD.

SIR A. CONAN DOYLE ON FUTURE OF (SPIRITUALISM,

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the principal speaker at a memorial service for members of the Spiritualists’ National Union who fell in the war, held recently at the Albert Hall. If was only with unseemly levity, said Sir Art bar, that their opponents could attack them, but they were out to light and win a victory for which the whole human race was yearning. Tlipngh faced by a Hindenburg Dine of ignorance and theological barbed wire entanglements, they meat lo go through them all. It was not a memorial service, it was a joyous reunion made possible by I lie new knowledge which was theirs. Their meeting was unique for Europe, but not for the world. During (he Russo-Japanese War, Admiral Togo had invoked the spirits of his lost heroes, and when we were as advanced in psychic knowledge as Japan, not only insignificant civilians, but our great leaders in the Navy and Army would be found invoking their dead heroes, and he know that one of our greatest Army leaders was a pronounced spiritualist.

The brave- men who had given their lives whether on the sea or on land, and the heroic boys of the air, no matter Avhere they had died, were with them that night, and the message they brought from the other side of the border was, “Do not sorrow, but rejoice.” The deaths of those heroes would result in a tremendous driving force for the betterment of the whole world, political and religious.