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Stead, the Man : Personal Reminiscences STEHD THE H N STEAD: THE MAN Photo, ERNEST MILLS.] STEAD: THE MAN PERSONAL REMINISCENCES By EDITH K. HARPER With Introduction by MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ALFRED E. TURNER, K.C.B., ETC. LONDON WILLIAM RIDER & SON, LTD. 8 PATERNOSTER ROW, B.C. 4 1918 Befctcatefc To "The Union of All who Love, In the Service of All who Suffer." SQ1K23 INTRODUCTION BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ALFRED E. TURNER, K.C.B., ETC., ETC. a close and intimate friend of W. T. Stead, AS I have pleasure in writing an introduction to this work of Miss Edith Harper, whose long period of association with him gave her constant and unequalled opportunities of diving into the depths of the inner thoughts of that great thinker and single-minded philanthropist, whose mind was ever directed towards the betterment and improve- ment of the condition of his fellow-creatures, not only in this world but in preparation for the life beyond the border. He was absolutely fearless " both physically and morally, and the whips and scorns of time," and the taunts and ridicule which were hurled at him on account of his firm and unshaken belief in the continuity of life beyond the grave, and in the possibility of communicating with the spirits of those who have passed on, were to him " as unworthy of serious attention as the crackling of thorns under a pot/' I had no more vahied friend than W. T. Stead, vii viii INTRODUCTION and his sudden and premature ending on the physical plane has caused a gap in my life that is hard indeed I to fill, even though and several other of his friends have been privileged to communicate with him spiritually on many occasions. No man ever lived a more strenuous life, or one more devoted to the welfare of his fellow-creatures, and this perhaps led him to a too great indifference to his 'own mundane interests. His heart and his purse were ever open to those who came to him in difficulties and distress, for counsel and relief. In this country of ours, probably impostors and blackmailers flourish under the aegis of the law more richly than in any other and Stead was too gener- ous, too open-hearted, too unsuspicious and too busy, to inquire closely into the circumstances of those who came to him for help. However, this one weak- ness in him, if it can so be called, only redounds to the credit of a generous and unsuspicious heart. I venture to say that no one has ever been more fearless as to the so-called horrors of death, or more ready to meet it than W. T. Stead. It signified no- thing to him but a phase, a step on that long upward path of evolution, which sooner or later we all must ascend till we reach that point where the secrets of nature and the mysteries of spirit-life will be made known to us, when we come into the presence of that great unknown Deity who, as Bacon wrote, " alone hath no beginning." Stead was the man indeed, the typical man whom INTRODUCTION ix Browning must have had in his mind's eye when he wrote his beautiful lines : " One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamt, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph ; Held fall to baffled we rise, are to fight better ; Sleep to wake." Miss Harper, by writing an account of some aspects of the life of a many-sided man, has earned the gratitude not only of Stead's countless friends, but of legions of thinking people, who feel that he had a mission to perform on earth, which he did not fail " to accomplish in any respect. A perusal of Stead : The Man/' coupled with one of "My Father/' by Miss Estelle Stead, will give as close an insight as can be obtained of the life and character of one of the best and most remarkable men of his time. ALFRED E. TURNER. FOREWORD this volume has no pretensions to being a AS Biography but is only a sheaf of personal memories bound together with some details of W. T. Stead's psychic work more especially of the years wherein I was privileged to work with him which will supplement those already otherwise recorded, I make no attempt to sketch, even in outline, his enormous activities in the many other fields which lie white to the harvest of the biographer. How- ever much many of his contemporaries may have disagreed with his views or his methods, posterity will find them to have been unanimous in agree- ment that the motive-power behind all his bril- liant energies was of the highest and purest. So utterly unselfish, so full of the divine capacity to love and forgive, yet so infinitely human in his impetuous vehemence, in his fierce impassioned denunciation of all that is base and mean ; at times an enfant terrible, making one hold one's breath in apprehension of the next denouement, at others a St. Francis in modern garb, gathering up a stray wet kitten, storm-driven on the Embankment on a wintry night, and sheltering it tenderly under his coat of ; prince journalists, apostle of peace, knight- errant of womanhood, quixotic champion of forlorn xi xii FOREWORD hopes and struggling causes he has been truly called all these, and a full and complete record of his devoted life-work will be truly encyclopaedic when it arrives. My best thanks are due to the executors of the late Mr. W. T. Stead for kindly allowing me to reproduce the frontispiece of the Review of Reviews Memorial Number, and certain copyright matter in- to Goodrich-Freer cluded in this book ; Miss (Mrs. H. Spoer) for her contribution on "Borderland"; to Lady Archibald Campbell, Miss Lilian Whiting and Miss Scatcherd for kindly sanctioning my quota- to the editors of the tions from their writings ; Contemporary Review, the Fortnightly Review, The Daily Mail, Light, and the Two Worlds, for cour- teous permission to quote from Mr. Stead's articles to for her in and speeches ; Lady Warwick kindness consenting to the publication of fuller details regard- ing the motor-car prophecy; to Mr. R. King for notes on Mr. Stead's to Mr. horoscope ; and E. R. Serocold-Skeels for his kind help in revising the proofs. I also wish to record my gratitude to my publisher, the Honble. Ralph Shirley (Messrs. Wm. Rider & Son, Ltd.), for his patience and considera- tion in the face of unforeseen difficulties. EDITH K. HARPER. THE APPLE GATE, COOMBE HILL, S.W. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I A HOUSE OF MANY ROOMS . i " " II THE BEGINNINGS OF SEERSHIP . .15 III MY FIRST MEETING WITH W. T. STEAD . 25 " " IV WHO is JULIA ? 35 " " His CONFESSION OF . V FAITH . .46 " " VI THE STORY OF BORDERLAND . .61 VII . "THE SIGNPOST" . .71 " " VIII THE M.P. FOR RUSSIA 77 IX AUTOMATIC WRITING 82 X MEMORIES 91 XI CATHERINE THE GREAT 103 " " I XII How KNOW THE DEAD RETURN . 119 XIII MECCA AND MEDINA 133 XIV JULIA'S DAY 145 XV THE AEROPLANE ...... 149 XVI THE TRUE SPIRITUALISM 157 XVII A PROPHETIC MESSAGE ..... 162 xiii xiv CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE XVIII A GOLDEN YEAR 170 " " XIX THE VOICE OF GLADSTONE ? . .179 " " XX CAN TELEPATHY EXPLAIN ALL ? . -197 XXI THE WORLD-MAN . .209 " " XXII THE TALISMAN FROM POLAND . 224 . XXIII NOTES BY THE WAY. .'.,' . 228 " XXIV "TRAVELLER, MUST YOU Go ? . 233 XXV "THE PROMISED LAND" > . 245 SOME DATES IN THE LIFE OF W. T. STEAD 258 APPENDIX t % 263 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS " 1. Frontispiece Stead : The Man." 2. "Julia" . To face page 44 " " 3. Hullo ! 60 4. Catherine the Great . 106 5. The Sanctum, Mowbray House . 150 6. Miss Harper . 178 7. loth November, 1885 ... 232 8. "A Voyager" .... 244 ' j' *>, V'o '. CHAPTER I A HOUSE OF MANY ROOMS STEAD had a favourite saying, the WT.inner meaning of which may be enlarged to any extent : " If I am remembered at all a hundred years hence, " it will be as Julia's amanuensis ! To those who really knew him it is certain that the much beloved, much derided, much reviled "Julia's Bureau" dearest to him of his many practical ideals for the benefit of humanity will ever stand as typical of the essential spirituality of all his activities. Like the burning-glass which concentrates the energy of the sun, it was the focus and outward manifestation of an altruism which sought expression in two worlds, the visible and the invisible. Doubtless to a mind like his, intensely active and " keenly analytical, the problem, What ? Whence ? " Whither ? early asserted itself, in spite of the rigid, Puritanical training of his childhood and youth. His writings reveal the eager soul that was constantly looking from the earth to the stars and 1 B STEAD: THE MAN scanning with 'inquiring yet reverent eyes the mar- vellous intertwining of spiritual with physical things. " He often declared he was born without the " of veneration but he meant that bump ; only he could not always adopt what Matthew Arnold " " called stock ideas. He must needs learn, think, explore for himself, and if at times he startled the world with the result of such exploration, he " took it as all in the day's work and said, You can- not judge of the impact you have made till you see " the force of the reaction it sets up ! He was of a type that is mentally and physic- ally fearless, having the Pilgrim Fathers for its spiritual ancestry and finding in Oliver Cromwell the embodiment of its political and religious ideals.
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