SPOOKS

Shannon News, 29 April 1924, Page 4

SPOOKS

"Tliero is no warrant for believing that God is running a perpetual bureau lor .communicating with departed spirits,” said Dr. . Biederwolf in an address at the Sydney Town Hall recently.

The evangelist was seeking to answer the question which formed the subject of his address: “Can We Talk ! With the Dead ?” Describing the incident of the' Witch of Endor, -Dr; BiederWolf said Saul evidently thought people could talk with the dead, and he included that men like Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Conan Doyie, Mr Stead/and others “had nothing on Saul when it came to calling up spooks.” “Many people think that speaking with the dead is a fraud,lock, stock, and barrel,” he said. “One thing is certain. If you go poking your nose into a clairvoyant atmosphere you will be robbed of your money. You will have one consolation in that), however, yu won’t be any bigger a, fool when you come out than you were when you went in.”

Sir Oliver Lodge’s testimony in “Raymond,” Dr. Biederwolf said, was not the kind of evidence that passed for par In the scientific world to-day. Searching for any tangible evidence as to actual communication with departed spirits was like looking for bones in a cup of custard. . He did not deny that there were spirits at spiritual seances. They were not the spirits of their departed dead, however, but spirits whose distinguishing characteristics were a cloven hoof and a forked tail. , Spiritism, Dr. Biederwolf affirmed, was untruthful, unprovable,' unlawful, and unnecessary. The Bible told them there was another world, and told them all that they needed to know about it. The life on the other side would be real enough when they got to it.