"THE MYSTERY OF DEATH." ANOTHER STEP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 28 August 1915, Page 6

"THE MYSTERY OF DEATH." ANOTHER STEP.

[To Tub Editor Stiiawqud Post.] Sir.— .Mr Page, or the over dear and venerated nameless shade thai lollows Mr Page round the world, has not, so far, accepted my challenge, hence one begins to wonder why this deal' little sunshine who was so com-' niunicntive last Sunday evening on a question thai nobody understood, is, now so silent when tin opportunity to accomplish something useful is offered. Perhaps it, in its astuteness, is fashioning its plans ill accordance with the domestic idiocyticrasies of spirt t- ■ land, and '>>' a piece of artful craft, ! on next Sunday evening, place three guineas to the credit of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. Mr Page is a great j believer ill getting out into luitire I'm purposes of worship. Surely Mr Page knows that if is impossible to get out into Nature, "for we are in the centre of Nature, no matter where we find ourselves. 1 suppose he mans out-, side a church. Is it not true that when one is out in the fields one is in the'presence of the most awful tra-, gedies. Beside where I am sitting,! 'there is a plant bearing two beautiful dowers, but its stalk is covered with cancerous looking excrescences which j cause one a little pain, and somß-j what upset the frame of mind essential to true communion and worship. I have wvvci- seen anything more beau-! tiful and edifying, more impressive and inspiring than a number of people in a church bowed in prayer, and I j am sure that the display last Sunday j evening in the Foresters' Hall wa s a poor substitute for the devotion one may see any Sunday evening in any church in Stratford. "The Fall of Man" was attacked, very forcefully by Mr Page's spirit! control, and it appeared to thinil* it had made a great hit. As this something inflated Mr Page to bom-, bastic heights of assumption he or it said, "If man was made perfect how! could the perfect fall?" Now. Mr I Page, allow me to answer this question. No finite mind has ever been brought into relationship with perfection except about nineteen hundred years ago, and therefore no finite mind could formulate to itself what perfection is; consequently, it is a piece of presumption for a medium to 'assert that a man could not fall from perfection. Consciousness cannot resolve itself into states in which such things as perfection, time and space are understood, hence only ithe irrational would venture to affirm that man has not fallen from perfection. From beginning to.end the lecture was a repetition of this kind 'of nonsense; Mr Page stood on a platform and an address was delivered. Mr Page claims that the address was delivered by an' entity independent of himself. He claims that his will and memory were held in suspension; that his other faculties were used by this invisible something. When the address was finished lie' claimed to; have ho. recollection of what took place. If his will and memory were held in suspension bow does''he know he was used by an invisible Something:' Then if he has a recollection of any part of the proceedings he certainly was not in a trance. There was nothing in the lecture by'which those; present could judge whether Mr Page was in a trance. or was not in a trance, and a* Mr Page's faculties were in suspension he cannot know', 'whether lie was awake or in a trance, t If one wishes to converse a little with! Mr Page's airy nothing a series of difficulties immediately present themselves. The medium through which the invisible something communicates refuses to allow himself to be used for a little cross-examination. The reason for this may be found in a little bit of advice this something gave the audience last Sunday night. He told us j not to believe all the stranage complications; communicated from across the; way, for spirits were fond of working off little tricks and jokes, and it was just, as well to believe only as much as fitted in with one's ideas of these matters in' general. Mr Page may say something about something or he may say nothing about something or something about nothing on next Sunday evening, but I say that he should say something about why he left England when Kitchener and the Empire need every available man for service. He may be physically unfit to carry a rifle, and this physical defect may account for his being a medium. However, it is to be hoped he will make an effort to add a little to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund.

J shall (with your permission, Sir), reply at. some length to an article by one of these imported shades from the other side of death and signed "F. G. Blake."—l am. etc.,

T. BOYLE