WAR AND SPIRITUALISM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 249, 9 February 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

WAR AND SPIRITUALISM.

Maior-Gcneral Sir Ah red Turner, who presided at a conversazione of the I'nion of East and West at the Graftcn Galleries recently, «iid he had been an earnest and devout investigator of spiritual sm for ov, r twenty years. Latterly. owinz to th • terrible war in which vo many had been called away from tins carth-'y existence, people were thinking more and more as to the future life, and they longed for some communication. if possible, with those they had iost. Ht related experience* of his own, in which ho had had communication with lo>t friends, and -aid those'mho had lately gone over were naturally anxious to communicate with those whom tliev had left behind, and it was n mistake to suppose that they l>ecanie more earth-hound by mi doing. To linn it 'ocmeil absolutely that peop'o could not believe in a life to come or in the continuity of life. Spiritualism. pursued reverently in a proper spirit, was the greatest comfort in the world. It prepared one for death, and took away the terror of death.

Before a mptor omnibus is put into commission in London it is tested for stability. It is mounted on a platform that is then t>ited sideways and 1 the point at which it Will tip over is registered. Then it is loaded with the weight of a iii'.l complement of passengers, m?tde and out, tilted again and the capsizing point taken. A properly-built omnihns falls over when empty when the azlcs aro tilted to an angle of 41 degrees. When the top is loaded and the i>:is is ejnpty inside the angle of capsizngin gl s degrees. \\ hen it ins.di and out it h stable until tilted to :in miglo of dogroo*.

At a nm'ting of the German National l.iiiei-;*! party held at Du-vUloi f. a resolution was unanimously adopted describing the defeat of Kngland as the only guarantee of Germany's future, and demanding the ruthless employment of all weapons against this deadly t nemy.