CHAPMAN'S MANDATE FROM SPIRIT LEADERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1152, 29 December 1927, Page 1

CHAPMAN'S MANDATE FROM SPIRIT LEADERS

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IT must be distinctly understood at the outset that Chapman, who is now in Christchurch, staging spook concerts nightly, takes no credit to himself for this diversion in the entertainment world. His concerts given by "spirit voices" from beyond the veil, he says, are right outside hie control, Clive provides the medium and he plays the piano. The spirits do the rest. Such are the claims— although he does not" like the word— of Chapman arid his Blue Room Party of Spirit Voices. Having met Clive it is now necessary to introduce Miss Pearl Judd, the medium, and Miss Betty Reid, who assists at the piano, taking turns with Chapman in accompanying the songs and duets rendered by "Charlie," "Ronnie," "Trevor" and "Zara," all of whom, by the way, "come through"

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that 10 per cent of psychic phenomena was genuine and 90 per cent, was not. Another leading Spiritualist said ' that Chapman's show was quite possible, and he had encountered similar phenomena before, but it was also quite possible that howover sincere and earnest Chapman might be he might possibly be d,eluded. ' "You knoTr there are just as big crooks ana twisters on the other side of life as there are on earth, and the trouble is to know which influences are good and which are not." "Truth" does not suggest that Chapman is running a fake show. His sincerity and earnestness cannot be doubted, but that does not prove that his phenomena is genuine. He may believe — -and does— rthat it is genuine, but when he pleads that he cannot demonstrate at the house of a sceptic without the permission of the spirits, it is easy enough to lay himself t . ■ ■' ■ ■