Psychic Gazette November

THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE NOVEMBER. 1931. P r ick S ix p e n c e N e t No. 218. V o l . 20. Father D reseller said he did not think these manifesta tions had anything to do with evil. " The Catholic Our Outlook Tower. Church recognises that an apparition comes either because a dead person left something undone on this earth, or “ THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE AND FAITH.” to serve as a reminder that another world awaits us |HE MOST REV. DR. DOWNEY, Arch beyond our own.” bishop of Liverpool, delivered what the The previous tenants of the house for nine years noticed T Irish Independent of October 12 calls a nothing unusual, but one of the present occupants is “ brilliant lecture ” in the Theatre Royal, Dublin, said to have been “ interested in Spiritualism for some time, and has attended Spiritualist meetings I ” He to a crowded audience. should take a good medium home to chat kindly with the Its title was “ Modem Spiritism in the Light of Science restless spirit of the old priest and so release him from his and Faith.” The Archbishop showed prejudice even in trouble, as many others have been by this means. his title. He meant “ Spiritualism ” but he preferred to call it “ Spiritism.” Why not give it its proper name, SPECTRE OF A NURSE. since it was worthy of his attention for a brilliant lecture ? Ma n y fatal motor accidents have occurred Spiritualists would disdain to leave the middle syllables at Swan Corner, Leatherhead, and the spectre out of “ Catholicism ” and call it " Cat-ism,” for that would be merely “ catty,” and silly and untrue and of a nurse in uniform is now often seen lying unworthy of reasonable people, though apparently it is there in the middle of the road. quite becoming in a most Reverend Archbishop of the Perhaps she had been killed herself and is still rooted Catholic Church. to the spot. Anyhow, many motorists have been in There was very little ” light ” either from science or terror when they have driven over the spectral body, 1 ™ . BIRWlha faith in the Archbishop’s lucubrations. or pulled up sharply out of the way to avoid it. A lady He told his gaping admirers that people seeking to who lives nearby says she was walking there the other VTLON obtain direct knowledge of the soul’s survival “ were day, and saw the nurse -lying in the road. Three motor not Spiritists in the real sense but gross materialists ! ” cars dashed over it, and when they had passed the body ranee That Spiritualism, "the 366th religion”— a splendid had disappeared. joke received with laughter— " had a somewhat unsavoury °PM E NT. past ”— and there he was on rather dangerous ground ! A STOCKBROKER’S PSYCHIC DRAWINGS. C*ntlon will receive tl That the time of its early development, " from 1853 Mr. F. Garnet Stobbs, a middle-aged London to 1882, was the Golden Age of fraud and trickery in 1 or Phone to “H stockbroker, who has never learnt drawing and Telephone: England.”— There is unhappily still a little left for medium-baiting by the Archbishop’s followers. six months ago could not draw at all, exhibited That Eusapia Paladino “ was caught producing her at the Stock Exchange Art Society’s Exhibition 1ST HOl phenomena by fraud and trickery not once or twice but his sketchbook of ** free-hand drawings of objects (Near fJw AfaA thousands of times.”— We refer the Archbishop on this seen clairvoyantly.” subject to his co-religionist, the Hon. Everard Fielding, S puotualistj who was sent to Italy by the Society for Psychical Research They are of visions he sees in the middle of the night, when he gets up and draws them at once. They include L o n d o n . to investigate this trickery, and who reported that it was done unconsciously by Eusapia under the influence elaborate decorative designs in blue and gold, circles, per night. a Gn*. pej cubes, and foliated figures. One is a symbolical sketch ibtm dor 1533. of mischievous controls. Eusapia herself wept over it. Mr. Fielding told us that his visit to Italy had taught him of " The Flight from the They are probably all drawn while he is under the control of a spirit artist. one thing and that was " that a medium might cheat and I ROWE still be honest.” MR. HARRY PRICE. •r Readings by That “ they seem to give the devil more than his due, The name of Mr. Harry Price, the “ Foreign xial Inspiration and incidentally insult his angelic intelligence by crediting Research Officer” of the American Society for RD., LONDON, him with the appalling drivel churned out by modem mediums.”— This noble defence of the devil's " angelic Psychical Research, has just been deleted without intelligence ” was also received with laughter ! comment from the list of staff appearing monthly " That in no case did the medium in the trance state in the Society’s official organ Psychic Research, ivan, arranged u rise above the mental level of the waking state.”— We of which Mr. Frederic Bligh Bond is the able as fires and rings humbly refer the Most Rev. Archbishop to the wisdom editor. bed, breakfast d of Confucius coming in Chinese through the " illiterate ” medium George Valiantine. Mr. Price has for years contributed the “ International RESS, And more to the same effect to exhibit the light of Notes ” to that journal, but these have also disappeared, ILVS GATE, science on Spiritualism. But this is not " light ” but with the following delicate intimation :—“ The Inter ute from “ The " lies ” of the deliberate cold and calculated type against national Notes, which have been a feature of this journal the New Revelation of Christian truth which is attracting for seventy-one years, terminated with our August so many good Catholics to-day. These have become tired number. Their place will be filled by a selection of the of being misled by their blind leaders. more important items gleaned from the many sources As for the " light of faith " the Archbishop expressed of a reliable nature now available.” (Our italics !) it oracularly thus :— ‘ ‘ Catholics who attended seances did JL wrong becau se they disobeyed the Church in a grave matter. ’ * m m « Their natural desire for the truth on immortality at OUR READERS’ TESTIMONIES. all costs is of no consequence ; they must obey the Church, A Hor/Aing Subscriber : ** The I.P.G . is really the even when it strives against spiritual enlightenment. most interesting psychic paper going— not one line dull APPARITION OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST. in the whole of it. A New Zealand Subscriber: “ I have subscribed to G r e a t disturbance has recently been caused your journal for m&nv years and always look eagerly for in a house at Eccles, Lancashire. Ghostly its coming as it is most interesting.” nocturnal noises and the moving of beds have A Pretoria Subscriber : " The Gatette gives me a lot terrified the occupants, who declare that during of comfort and although I am an old subscriber, I gladly the past five years they have seen the phantom read it before any other paper that may come with it." of a priest suddenly appear, and as suddenly A Boston (U.S.A.) Subscriber : " The Gasette is splendid and seems to grow better all the time. Please accept disappear through a w all. my very best wishes for its continual progress and growth.1 Father Sharrock, a priest at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic A Canadian Subscriber : ” We were so sorry to lead Church, Eccles, formerly lived in the house and died in our Montreal Star of Dennis Bradley s convicting there 35 years ago. The apparition is believed to resemble George Valiantine of fraud. What a pity ! We art him His successor, the Rev. J. Drescher, was called to eagerly looking forward to the Gutetu to see what you the house by the occupants. He sprinkled holy water have to say about it.” 10 the rooms and pronounced the usual blessing bestowed A Detroit (l/.S.A,) Subscriber ; ** The G+reHe » a on houses. He did not perform the more elaborate splendid paper, rich in information concerning the work process of exorcism Prayers were also said in the old being done throughout the world by the vabant band of church ” in accordance with the practice of making Spiritualists. May its cmuUtxm wcieaae a thousand intercession for those believed to appear in spirit form fold I “ after death/' 18 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. A New Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.* LADY CONAN DOYLE'S EPILOGUE. m IX years before the passing of Sir Arthur ” He was like a boy in the house, so full 0i . \T 3 S Conan Doyle he himself wrote the thrilling always— the central battery of happiness." Un f!" story of his life, which, for variety and G™ Cronglv^ o n g r í ” I have known him write a Sherlock HoW ,ich s inability t‘ o{ ne romance, he thought could hardly be exceeded. story in a room full of people talking. He Wouvi That work, entitled " Memories and Adventures,” write in a train or anywhere— when the precious will ever rank high in the list of classical flow of inspiration was in his brain.” famerat hitherto'*ishea a s ® ? 1 autobiographies. “ His championing Spiritualism showed how little lave been P v,if. ' It is now supplemented by a homely memoir by another he cared for the world’s opinion. His name was Mrs. C. H ‘ hand.

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