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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7751, 1 March 1905, Page 2

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(We are not responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.) I BPUUT RETURNS. (To the I'M tor.) a Sir,—ln a rcctit issue of your .widely-read paper I read with sin * |prise a letter signed " Investigator,' and to, my mind such u signature b.\ j one who appears to lie so much ii. t the dark on this great and world j wide science aind religion seems nb , surd. It would greatly interest me, , land no doubt others of your readers. ( to know the munlier of years devot s ed by your apparently studious cor- , respondent to the study and :• -.'..•nirch , of the great phenomena of spli-il re , | turn that fe innkin; liie i a:-te. , jminds of (he world think iu.-.i pe - i sonally investigate. ">'o dotil,! i.i.- i i,ive.v;igation ha» been in book form, j Well, if (hat is the case, all 1 can say is ho is on the wrong track to my thinking, and is likely to remain ; there until he .'p;-:oaches this great • and sublime tint,, -• ith an open and unbiased m-i-n-d, and has demonstrated to him some of the genuine and undoubted phenomena, -which any earnest and well-meaning spiritualist would be only too pleased to bring before his notice, providing the conditions were favourable. i' am very much afraid his investigation has been of a very shallow description. : As regards Professor Cruolces and spiritualism, " Investigator " has actually (brought before my notice something unheard of before. However, he is welcome to his Knowledge concerning that gentleman and his views of spiritualism, and I may inform him that they are erroneous, and if he will continue his investigation time will prove it to him. In any case, I do not by any means look on a man because he happens- to be a scientist and an earnest ore nt that, as the greatest authority on spiritualism. f believe the greatest authority is a man's self. Let him prove by his own investigation, not : . what somebody else says, writes, or, thinks. Professor Crookcs no doubt . says the world is round. I actually refuse to admit that it is round or flat. Why? Simply because I have i not gone into the subject for my pcr-l sonal self. I don't know. That is my version. I believe, but to know' • and to believe are two different things. By quiet, patient, and ear- ■ nest investigation, I know beyond a ■ shadow of a doubt that we are in ■ (touch with those whom some mourn • as dead, as in never ending unquench- ! able hell-lire ijrepnrcd by a loving i God," 1 fail lo'see where the love ! comes in. " Investigator " -believes, ■ and 1 know, that is the difference. I f do not look on him as my inferior j, because he does not know, but ra- > ther as one who will know some i time, as the knowledge will come to all. Millions have got it here, and I it is a knowledge that once gained is l, priceless, us it makes life worth the L living. " Investigator '- has my - sympathy. tio ahead, friend, con- ] tinue your investigation, and success 1 will attend you. It must attend all . who are investigating patiently, and with a good object in view. Personally, 1 have been one who has

had greater advantages than a good many to look into these, great truths and have received proof after proof of the continued existence of loved ones who have left the body. Death so-called is not the terrible monster it has been pictured, merely a change—the evolution from the physical to the spirituul. Pick up your Ilible. H is a network of spiritualism, and yet great numbers who believe in that book denounce spirittialism. The best religion, to my mind is to do as much good to your 'fcUow-bc-ing as lies in your power and to make Heaven here, not go waiting for in ire some future stale. I claim that I have been in communncation with those who are merely on ahead of me, and this in the columns of a paper read by people of intelligence from all parts of the. world, people who I could sit with with advantage, and learn from on other subjects and to think that for one moment that I would have the audacity to make such a statement without knowing it To be true, and to deceive my fellows who arc thirsting to gain this great knowledge. Such an action would to my thinking be a crime, unless backed up by indisputable and positive knowledge and proof of what I claimed, and always will claim, viz., the fact that there is an interchange of messaged between the supposed dead and those jwho are still in the body. When .this great grcaf truth becomes uni|vei'snl|, as it will assuredly, there will be a great and glorious change for all mankind, and it will ttiHl more than all else To bring about the brotherhood of man, which ought to be the aim of all, whether Spiritualist or not. "Investigator " need not lie discouraiged, and rush into print to throw a wet sack on what he is |an infant in, and not only he, but ,the majority of humanity. I say, |"Come, let us ronson together," not jump on each othei*. We have nil got to learn, and) i(i' wo had nothing to learn life would indeed be uninteresting. If "Investigator" can give :me further proof of a future state of existence than Spiritualism can, I shall lie only too happy tq hear it. lean assure him that it is not only a few inhabitants 0 f this world who happen to believe in a certain dogma that are going t 0 live again, ; putting aside all sentiment and religion, it is proved by cold scientific fact that there is a continued existence after the state called Pcat-h of the body, and one and all live again after that change. Whilst I have the opportunity, I would invite not only "Investigator" to continue to search for the truth, but everybody, church-goers and non- | churchgoers alike, especi a llv the bejrelived ones whose loved ones are ahead of them a'few years, and who have entered into the higher life that < | we are all to participate in. I may, state that I am mno way connected i any Spiritualists in New Plv.mouth, except the brotherhood that connects us all the wide world over I "WnLT ?-' 1, ?!"' H ' n to ,K '- ' f«Ht Investigator," „.„ Ilnyone (1 , j should not take offence at anvthing I LmT Sm , (l " , 11 |K BaW in a Wndlv i spnlt, and I trust it will i,e the means of showing- others the light a« millions more with myself see it -I I am, etc., . New Plymouth), Feb. 28, 1905. '