THE UNSEEN WORLD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 183, 16 June 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE UNSEEN WORLD.

SOME STRIKING TESTIMONIES. In a recent number, the "Cliristain Commonwealth" gives a remarkable symposium on the subject of the spiritworld. to which amongst others the following aer contributors : Miss Lilian Whiting, William le Queux, George B. Bur gin, A. St. John Adeoek, Max Pemberton, William Canton, Mrs. Kendal, Miss Violet Vanbrugh, Oscar Browning, H. De Yere Stacpoole. Lady Grove, Sir .Toh'll Kirk. Louis N. Parker and Louis Wain. Perhaps the most noteworthy contributions are those fjuoted below from Mrs Flora Annie Steel and Miss Violet Tweedale, the novelists. and Mrs Edwin Markham. who writes on behalf of her husband, the famous American poet. Our contemporary says: — FLORA ANNIE STEEL, the famous novelist, tells us that 'she has "never seen a ghost or had any physical experience of spiritual life," but imparts this interesting information: "All my stores written in the dialect of Nathaniel James Craddoek were told me verbatim by an 'eidolon' (an image of the mind, vision or unseen presence"), whom, though I never saw here in tlip flesh. I feel I should recognise in the street. They are generally considered my best.'' BY VIOLET TWEEDALE. General A ——, a ce'ebratqd soldier, committed suicide under mental trouble. I had never seen him. He was known to my husband as a club acquaintance. After his death we became aware, by disturbances in the room, that someone on the other :sido desired to speak with lis. We 'sat' at once. General A . to' our amazement, wished to make a communication. It was to this effect: We were to tell a brother officer, then 011 tiie Gold Coast, that a certain sum of money which General A had borrowed from him would be refunded if applied for at a certain office in London. The brothel- officer was not the type of man to whom one would naturally speak on things psvchic. but we Had received the order, and felt bound to obey. My husband wrote a simple account of what had passed, to this officer on the Gold Coast, and there we left the matter. A year after, when 011 leave, lie wrote to say that 110 bad verified our statement, called at the office mentioned, and rtceiyod the money lie had lent to General A . BY MBS. EDWIN MARKHAM. In Oakland, California, about twenty years ago, a certain lady, a iter - a brief illness, was pronounced dead by the doctors. The undertaker prepared her body for the grave. Her funeral was announced. On the day slie was to be buried, her disconsolate husband was borne down with a grict all the more unbearable because of a conviction of his own sternness to the dead woman in years past. He said, weepUigly, to a little niece whom he and his wife had brought up from the cradle: "Maudie, you call Her to come back. Perhai>s she will come for you. The little girl, of about ten, bent obediently over the collin, and over and over again called, with tears, "Auntie, auntie, come back to us. We need you su ! Coiuo back ! come back '. Whereupon (and the niece herself told the storv to Mr Markham and me) the dead woman presently began to stir, and slowly roused as from sleep. To the amazemen . of the doctor, coroner and friends, she that was dead arose, and in a few days was at her old place again n, head of the house. She may be still alive* She was ali\c two years ago, when I was speaking with a friend who knows the wlio'e story. The niece lien- aunt often howit all seemed to her when she was gone from them. Sue would reply: "I was in a lovelv place of light and flowcis I and song .11 d rest. I was going on and on, when I heard your little voice calling ei". lii all the years since you were born I bad never refused to answer that, cry, and I could not then turn from it; sc 1 came back." 'lbis ladv (the n'ece said) had hitherto o! ten eleii cd heri-; l' tile doing ot ai t> of charity ti.lough fear of her husband's protest-'. ' Alter this experience she con. i'ltej his. whims no 'linger, but acted quietly upon the principle .she dinned right. Also, the niece told me, tin lady had never lost the power to see into that outer realm and hear its voices. Sometimes, at a dinner or ot'u .' function, the 11.000 would see the "listening look come | into her au.uV face, and would know I -ho was in c( mi' unicetion with _ the j Fii-ren. 0; ten the niece would quietly j touch he- aim's arm to brum: nor ' hack, whispering: "One wOll.l at a | : Miie. dear." """Moth tlicsi w< limn are well known j in Cali"ornia. The n ece is ae perlccH.s i normal voung woman, anistic ami lit- ■ (>-erv. The aunt, considered rational and usual. moved in society and church , K a lea Jet end worker.