REPLY TO F. C. BLAKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 6

REPLY TO F. C. BLAKE.

[To The Editor Stratford Post.l Sir, —It was with feelings of delight that I read a few evenings ago'a letter of irrelevant quotations, excuses, apologies and bewildering claims in defence of the strange professions of a medium and the insane assertions of spiritualism.' This letter was signed "F. G. Blake"—a self-centred visionary who has the faculty to" arrange the strangest contradictions into the nicest agreement. I suppose this is one of the extensions : n mental processes that accrue from loyally to an imported nothing from behind the veil. It is not fair to treat this matter with levity and sportive insincerity, but to treat it syllogistically would he inflicting an unfair sentence on what is sacred to the soul of Mr F; G. Blake. Now Mr Blake, do ydu really believe in the unwise foolish and irrational professions of Mr Page? I don't think you do. You appear to me too well supplied with ment'd and moral philosophy not to understand the limits of a finite mind. You know, or I think you know, that we know only our impressions of thWtgs, and not things themselves, so you may know that I know how foolish one ap : pears when one departs into formless nothing to grope one's way among Mr Page's invisible shades and intangible nothings. You suggest something about my intellectual field and primary school text hooks. Well, Mr Blake", I have read much and thought much, and I have among my trusted friends men whose intellectual fields yon could not and never will he able to explore, and allow me to tell you if you associate yourself too closely with the cause of spiritualism you will find its influence master of your destiny.

Spiritualism is the religion of the neurotic, section of the community and should be teriried a disease instead of. an ism. It has a fascination that' grows by association, and like witchcraft flourishes best where characters are weak and unscrupulous humbugs abound. Mr Blake, in conclusion, I wish to say these imported invisible nothings from the other side of death can do nothing to help a man to unfold his finer characteristics from within, and experience has proved they undermine those standards of rectitude we all admire and strive to live up to.—