SPIRITUALISM.
CONAN DOYLE ON AUSTRALIA. A BITTER ATTACK; PRAYERS FOR HIS END. B/ Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 7, 8.5 p.m. London, Jan. 6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writing in the International Psychic Gazette, refers to his ups and downs in Australia. He says that amongst the downs is the Press boycott, caused partly by ignorant want of proportion and partly by moral cowardice and fear of finding later that they backed the wrong horse, or of giving the wrong horse fair play. They are very backward, and far behind countries like Iceland and Denmark in a knowledge of what has been done in spiritualism. “They are dear folk, these Australians,” he adds, -“but Lord, they want spirituality and dynamiting out of their grooves. The Presbyterians actually prayed that I might not reach the country. This was rather near murder, if they really thought their rotten prayers would avail. The result, however, was an excellent voyage. It is the unliveliness and spiritual deadness of this place that gets on my nerves.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1921, Page 5
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173SPIRITUALISM. Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1921, Page 5
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