THE INTERNATIONAL PYSCHIC GAZETTE
No. 230. V o l . 21. NOVEMBER, 1932. P r ic e S i x p e n c e N e t Noble Lord’s Faked “Exposure” of an Honest Medium. l o r d d o n e g a l l substitutes a s l i d e , d e n i e s IT, THEN CAVES IN! He also Secretly Smuggles Plates into the Dark Room ! THE EDITOR INTERVIEWS MYERS AND ANSWERS HIS ACCUSERS. -p.HE MARQUESS OF DONEGALL may Dispatch came out at last screaming and sensational in the have his name in the Peerage as a noble most approved style. Its posters announced :— 1 Lord but he has assuredly not displayed “ SPIRIT PHOTOS ” much nobility in his recent effort to “ expose ” THE SECRET OUT a gifted photographic medium as a fraud and (EXCLUSIVE) a trickster when he was nothing of the sort. Its front page was headed right across by the following His lordship’s attempt was not even marked scare lines :— " Spirit Photography Fake Exposed ”— by any sign of cleverness or originality. It was ” Lord Donegall Tells the Amazing Truth about a Medium’s Trick.” And further bold headlines appeared for the most part a bungled effort to imitate Harry as follows :— " Dramatic Cry : ' The Game is Up ! ' ”— Price’s famous “ exposure ” of honest William “ Marked Plates changed for Prepared Ones in Dark Hope. He accused Mr. John Myers, a new Room ”— ” Smashed on Floor.” medium, who has in the past few months been The art of suggestio falsi is accomplished to perfection in the scare headings of ” stunt ” newspapers, but enormously successful in producing what are seldom, if ever, has there been such an assemblage of known as psychic “ extras,” of substituting plates insidiously misleading innuendos piled up over one article when all the substitution performed was done by a supposedly respectable journal. “ Spirit Photos,” b y His Lordship himself, with the aid of a secreted within quotation marks, suggests they were not so; “ The Secret Out ” suggests the discovery of some deceit box of plates and a “ Cameo ” slide ! or trickery ; ” Fake Exposed ” hints at the nature of But just as Price's iniquity failed in destroying the the alleged trick ; and “ Lord Donegall tells the Amazing honourable repute of Hope, and marked the beginning Truth about a Medium’s Trick ” enforces that idea. of the decline and fall of the once great Society for The remaining headings suggest that the medium had Psychical Research, under whose auspices Price played as a result of his inquisition thrown up the sponge and his tricks, so, we venture to predict, will Lord Donegall’s cried, “ The Game is Up ! ” ; that he had been caught with attempt to besmirch John Myers’ good name as a “ prepared plates ”— that is, with “ extras ” already on respectable man and a highly gifted sensitive bring only them— and had substituted these for Donegall’s " marked contumely and discredit upon his own name and that of plates ” in the dark ; and on being found out had smashed the Sunday newspaper which has printed his aspersions the negatives to hide his turpitude. and broadcast them to the world. These suggestions we propose to examine in the light HISTORY OF THE CASE. of the Marquess of Donegall’s own published statements Lord Donegall writes a weekly gossip page in the and Mr. John Myers' version of the facts, which is very Sunday Dispatch under the title of “ Almost in different, and which he willinglv gave us on the morning Confidence,” and on September 18, referring to a spirit the stunt appeared. photograph Mr. Myers had produced of Edgar Wallace, THE DRAMATIC CRY. he personally challenged “ Mr. Myers or any other Now at the very beginning of Donegall’s article which medium ” to produce a spirit photograph in the presence of himself, the Art Editor of the Dispatch, and an is headed, I They’ve Got Me ! ” we find it was the independent witness, the reward if successful to be ¿100. noble Marquess himself who said, ” Myers, your Game On September 25, he intimated that Mr. Myers had is Up ! ” It was not Myers who uttered these words, accepted the challenge. He said, ” I am glad, for I am as is falsely suggested by the heading, “ Dramatic Cry : not in the least hostile or even disbelieving ; like the man The Game is up ! ” They were not shouted as the from Missouri, I want to be shown. . Thank you, abject confession of a trapped criminal, but as the Mr. Myers.” challenge of a false accuser. On October 2, his Lordship stated that he and the The second paragraph says :— “ The only answer that Art Editor of the Dispatch were going to have a seance John Myers made was to attempt to assault me, grab next day with Mr. Myers, who had, however, refused what plates he could out of my hand, and shatter them the offer of £100 should he be successful. in the fireplace. Lord Tiverton held him off me from On October 9, the Marquess published an account of behind.” Thus, according to Lord Donegall, Myers the seance under the rather disrespectful scare-heading had no other reply to his charge but attempted violence. ' Spook ’ Photographs Thrill at Seance.” He testified We shall see further on what Myers himself has to say that “ during the whole procedure Mr. Myers never about it. tam pered with either slides or camera,” yet a spirit A HALF-TONE SCREEN EFFECT. | extra ” of two young women’s faces appeared on one Lord Donegall now says that when an enlargement was of the plates, which had been exposed under the made of the plate with “ extras ” taken at the first “ test ” surveillance of Lord Donegall, the Art Editor, Mr. Will seance, “ both ‘ spirits ’ showed evidence of a half-tone Goldston, an impartial witness, and Mr. Hannen Swaffer, screen on their faces as clear as crystal.” He says he who was present as a friendly protector of the medium. remarked to the Art Editor: " It is obvious to us His Lordship somewhat grudgingly concluded ;— that these pictures are cut-outs from old newspapers “ Well, there you are. You can take it or leave it. or magazines, hedged round with cotton-wool or some 1 do not say that they are pictures of dead people, similar substance, photographed. and that somehow or in any way connected with spirits. What I do they got on to our plate.” say is that 1 am fully convinced that something Now as that is the first count in his Lordship's indict happened that evening w hich is very hard to explain ment, let us examine it. The spirit faces, he said, had away.” a half-tone screen effect. Even it this were true, a screen D a experiment please note, had been entirely effect is no sure sign of faking. (See Mr A. Campbell successi ul, and one would have thought that might have Holms' authoritative work on L'he Facts of Psycbic sufficed The event had furnished a beautiful Science and Philosophy, pages 214-5.) But the »^usatiunaJ stunt for his paper, and Mr. Myers had allegation is not true. Mr Myers received a copy ol the refused to accept any money The Art Editor said— ” It’s same enlargement made by the Disputeh at the same time ween a must successful evening—but . . ? " That as that which Lord Donegall asserts ' showed evidence but ” with the row of poiuts and the query mark meant of a half-tone screen on then faces as clear as perhaps that like Oliver Twist he wanted ” More,” at We have carefully examined this copy under a powerful tfe# tame price Or perhaps it meaut that he and his magnifying glass and found not the faintest trace ot la*fdship would have been much better pleased if it had auy half-tone screen effect l'he only plausible excuse been the failure they hoped for for making such a suggestion is that there is the otcUnarx Wtfll ul_ I jftdiU uu lliv' DliUllUlt Aukh' . v . . . . v THE HUUEbhFUl. MEDIUM DENOUNCED. totally diU« ^ 4 out that is i)fi Mil tr* uu dots and civnuhhttee 4M Mw» M mig ht k iv i of a half tor sc reel 18 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE N o v e m b e r , 1932.
Besides, the noble Marquess omits to sav how he THE SECOND SEANCE. considers it possible for Myers at a moment’s notice, " Now will you tell us, Mr. Myers, how you came to in the presence of his watchful inquisitors, to impose give a second seance ? ” we asked. cut-outs from old newspapers or magazines, hedged ” Yes,” he replied ; " on the Monday after the Sunday round with cotton-wool or some similar substance ” on Dispatch came out. admitting my success, and admitting plates which were never in his hands ! that everything had been done fairly, Donegall telephoned This allegation about a screen effect is the basis of to me saying that he would like another sitting. I replied the Dxspatch’s scare-heading, “ Lord Donegall tells the that I could give no further sittings unless I was Amazing Truth about a Medium’s Trick.” Of course, represented by people who were interested in the this truth ” is amazing, because it is absolutely untrue. Spiritualist Movement, such as Hannen Swaffer and No trick of any kind was performed by the medium. Will Goldston.” He said, " All right, I am sure Swaffer All Lord Donegall can say is that “ somehow they (the will give me a sitting.” faces) got on to our plate,” and that is futility itself ! I have always said that if Swaffer recommended anyone Happily for the medium his Lordship had himself already for a sitting that was good enough for me, because I look testified that “ during the whole process Mr. Myers never upon him as one of the leaders of the Movement and he tampered with either slides or camera.” is undoubtedly a brilliant man. A CUNNING CAMPAIGN. Donegall therefore approached Swaffer and asked Lord Donegall, having conceived this " screen effect,” for a sitting, and Donegall telephoned me on the same called a meeting of experts at the Dispatch office ” to day that Swaffer had consented, on the understanding find out how the trick was done ” ! “ Unfortunately,” that it was not to be a “ test ” sitting, for everybody he confesses, “ no one could say for certain how the was quite satisfied with the " test ” already given. trick had been done ! ” Various guesses, including a I thereupon asked Donegall what was the object of substitution of plates, were made, and “ from these this second sitting, and he replied that he would like to theories the Art Editor and I set out to plan a campaign bring his own camera and see what he could get with which would cover every loophole without making Myers that, and also he wanted a fresh article for the Dispatch suspicious.” next Sunday. I said I was quite agreeable, and fixed And here begins the ” campaign ” so-called— though the following Wednesday for the seance. '* conspiracy ” would be a much more appropriate term— I then said that, of course, I wanted Swaffer and to prove that Myers had substituted plates ! The | test ” Goldston with me. He said, " Why do you want sitting had been far too satisfactory. He must be Goldston ? I don’t think it necessary to have him denounced as a trickster somehow or other or spirit with us.” I replied that I wanted someone with me photography and Spiritualism would emerge triumphant who would give me power and confidence. He then from their fiery trial. Myers must be induced somehow consented to Goldston coming. to give another free sitting. His suspicions must not be DONEGALL’S TWO PACKETS OF PLATES. aroused. He must not guess that ” the hunt is up,” The five men— that is, Lord Donegall, Lord Tiverton, and that two noble Lords (for Lord Donegall was now Mr. Folkard (the A rt Editor), Mr. Swaffer and Mr. joined by another Lord named Tiverton) were out to Goldston— called at my office near Victoria to pick trap him in his own house, without even the chance me up, and we arrived at this house about seven o’clock. given by sportsmen to a fox or a hare in a fair chase. The first three drove here in their own car, and Swaffer. A net must be cast around him “ by fair means or foul,” Goldston and I came in a taxi. I asked Swaffer if he as the saying goes, but at all costs he must be made to had brought the plates, and he said that he had allowed appear to be a disreputable trickster. Donegall himself to bring the plates. I said, "You Now you might guess and guess as to what sort of have done a very stupid thing, but if I find their plates reasonable pretext could be concocted by anyone in the are marked or tampered with in any way I shall destroy circumstances to get Myers into this trap. But an them in the dark room.” Swaffer replied that they appropriate plan of campaign was prepared to meet the had no reason to doubt the honesty of Folkard and case by two noble Lords and two Dispatch Editors, and Donegall; he thought they were quite genuine; but its details were duly revealed as the hypocritical drama he did not know Tiverton. was played out in Myers’ own home to its sensational When we arrived Donegall and I went into the dark climax. room to load the slides, while Folkard and Tiverton took And here we let Mr. John Myers himself speak. He charge of the camera and made it ready for the exposure. described to us the events as they occurred when we In the dark room I asked Donegall if he had the plates, called on him on Sunday morning, October 16, and and he produced a packet on the outside wrapper of asked him for his account of the affair. which I saw some signatures, and I took that as an honourable guarantee that the packet had not been MR. JOHN MYERS’ ACCOUNT OF WHAT opened or tampered with in any way. HAPPENED. “ STEAMED OPEN ! ” First of all, he said, I should like to mention an From the Dispatch this morning I learn that he had incident that occurred during the | test seance | two packets, but I only saw one, and did not suspect which may be significant, though it has not that there was any other, for one packet of six plates was all that was required. I also learn from the Dispatch been referred to in the Press. In preparing for that the packets had been “ steamed open ” by a Mr. that seance Lord Donegall and I went into my Nelson, about whom I know nothing, professedly for dark-room, which is lit up by an electrical red the purpose of personally marking the plates with two lamp of 60 candle-power, a light much too strong lines cut across the corners of each ! Now it seems to me that this backstairs work vitiated the whole experiment, for ordinary photography, but I had this lamp for who can tell whether this outsider, who “ steamed ” specially fitted as a precaution against any the packets open— a deceitful process in itself— marked possible trickery on the part of anybody. all the plates with his cross lines, or only some and not LORD DONEGALL’S « MISTAKE 1 ” the others. Obviously if an “ extra ” appeared on an Lord Donegall himself took the plates out of his packet unmarked plate loaded into one of the six slides, I could and loaded the slides with them one by one. He had be falsely accused of substitution. difficulty in getting one of the plates into the slide and I say that whatever was done in connection with the asked me to help him with it, which I did. That was seance ought to have been known and supervised by the only occasion on which I touched any of the plates. my representatives, Swaffer and Goldston, but they like Donegall initialled, or was supposed to initial, all the myself were kept in the dark. If Donegall merely wanted six plates, but I was watching him very carefully and to " see what he could get with his own camera ” with a when he had finished 1 said, “ You have omitted to view to another article in the Dispatch, I for one cannot sign one of the plates.” He replied that he had signed see why any secret " steaming ” open of wrappers or every plate, but on my insisting that he had not, he smuggling in a second packet of plates was necessary. took the six slides out of his pocket and found that one LOADING THE CAMERA. of them was not signed. He said, “ I am sorry ; it was But to continue my story of the dark room, Lord a mistake.” Donegall tore off the outside wrapper on the box of When we entered the seance room for the experiment plates and the box appeared to me to be normal, with I reported to Goldston and the others in a jocular manner no visible sign of tampering. Of the six plates he loaded that Donegall had omitted to sign one of the plates, and four into the slides and asked me to load the other two, that I had drawn his attention to it. I added, ” Had which I did without the slightest suspicion that I was an extra appeared on this plate, he would have said it thus being trapped into handling the plates, and laying was a substituted plate because it did not contain his myself open to a false accusation of substitution or au\ signature. other trumpery charge. I hat was the only suspicious circumstance that Donegall, I saw, signed the whole six plates m the happened in connection with the ” test ” seance, which usual way. We returned to the seance room, and when was admitted by everyone to have been entirely we entered Folkard remarked, l am sure we are gvutig »M-UMactory and successful. f (Continued oh ¿y.) ja N o v em b er, 1932. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 19 K S Diamond Jubilee of Marylebone Spiritualist Association r Ä % > ¡ 4 ITS EARLY HISTORY TOLD BY A VENERABLE FOUNDER. HE Sixtieth Anniversary of the foundation Mr. William T. Cooper, one of its Founders, * ^ 8 tî ^ of Marylebone Spiritualist Association was and long its President. He was then in his ^re o ^ T publicly celebrated by a great meeting in eightieth year, and still on active service as W^er the Queen’s Hall, on Sunday night, October 2. President. Long before the hour for opening, queues Mr. Cooper first told us of his great sorrow l^nt a °°k had formed up around the hall, and as soon at the loss of a favourite son, and his deep dis ^ he as the doors were opened a crowd of over three satisfaction with the theological doctrines of ahd acV thousand people quickly filled the auditorium his time in regard to death and destiny, and 2 the ¿*< from ground floor to highest gallery, overflowing continued as follows :— on to every tier of the platform. My Son’s Death and Return. i v ^ ' H - It was a very impressive sight, showing that “ That was really the foundation of my going into Spiritualism has long passed the day of small Spiritualism. I began to think without restraint, and e °bject of things when its services were regarded with I thought our religious teaching on death and the here to after had all along been radically wrong. rJR* contempt, and its disciples treated with ignominy. “ When I came up against the fact of death, the religious K get ^th r e D lspakh M r s . T r e l o a r , President of the Association, was in beliefs I had held as a Wesleyan gave me no consolation, * a»d fixed the Chair; short addresses were delivered by Mrs.| and the first message I had from my son showed me Champion de Crespigny, there was something Mr. Hannen Swafier, and I more than the churches Mr. George Craze ; and knew of. Mrs. E stelle R oberts “ A fortnight after he le gave a wonderful demon passed over he returned stration of her clairvoyant at a seance in Harcourt powers. Street, where Mrs. Tread well was the medium. The C h a i r m a n said AlTES. it was with great pride She was in deep trance rd Tiverton, they viewed that hall and reconstructed the er and Mr. filled to its utmost whole painful scene that ria to pick capacity, which was had been enacted in my iven o’clock, some recompense for the boy’s bedroom on the morning of his death. and Swafier great work that had been iwafier if he done for Spiritualism by And, using the medium’s voice, my son himself had allowed t h e Marylebone spoke to me. He said, said, " You Association. ‘ Father, 1 am not dead ; Mrs. Champion de their plates I am all right.’ Crespigny said th at shall destroy “ Thereupon I started 1 that they while they were looking forward to the work still to study the subject in Folkard and earnest, and when I had ;nuine; but to be accomplished it was fitting they should take read several books, in their minds back into the cluding that of Andrew ito the dark Jackson Davis in which iverton took past, and try to under stand a little of what the he describes how he saw a he exposure, spirit leaving the body, d the plates, early pioneers and old workers went through in and had received many wrapper of evidential messages from that as an proclaiming truths which were now becoming my son and others, 1 d not been almost commonplace. became so thoroughly Twenty-four years after convinced that I said to the Hydesville raps a myself — ‘ This is the that he had small body of people in Truth, and I shall cer not suspect London formed this tainly try to help others to >f six plates Spiritualist community in get the same knowledge.’ the Dispatch very humble circum t by a Mr. stances. They braved the The Carpenter’s Shop. •fessedly for jeers and sneers of the “ I was greatly helped es with two scoffers and sceptics of in my inquiry by Mr. MR. W. T. COOPER seems to me their day, and the work C. I. Hunt, who was a experiment, which had been carried fellow Relieving Officer, " steamed ” on for sixty years from that time formed a great and and was secretary of a small Spiritualist Society, which elf— marked grand record. we both made up our minds to help on to a proper footing. •me and not It had been said that Spiritualism was a mere flash in It consisted then of about nine or ten members, and met lared on an the pan, that it had not come to stay, and that it would in a little carpenter’s shop in Harcourt Street, Marylebone. “ They had meetings on Sunday mornings and evenings, des, I could wither and die like many other cults, but in her (the speaker’s) view Spiritualism had not only come to stay but with a Children's Lyceum in the afternoon ; but these to prove the salvation of the world. The generation of were all poorly attended. The carpenter s benches and to-day had happily been born into a more tolerant world, timber were simply cleared to one side of the shop for the meetings. Various mediums, including Mrs. 1 and the truth was now having free course and making astounding progress in the hearts of all classes of people. Treadwell, Mrs. Spring, and Mr. Hopcroft, used to address Mr. Hannen Sw apper drew an interesting picture of us, and give us proofs that our so-called dead were alive collateral events at the time Spiritualism was born, and and were interested in what concerned us. claimed that Spiritualistic truth was now going on right The First Office Bearers. across the world and nothing could stop the final triumph " The society was called The Marylebone Association of their faith. of Spiritualists, and it retained that name until it was Mr. G eorge Craze said they had been reminded of the formed into a Limited Company later on sacrifices of their pioneers. Well, these pioneers were with “ A meeting was called to elect a committee and office them that night, and it was one of their present joys to see bearers, and to establish the society on a sounder basis what progress the truth had made since their time. In 1915 Mr. Thomas Everitt was appointed president, l was the Marylebone Association had only 100 members and vice-president, Mr. Charles White was treasurer, and associates ; ten years ago, at their Jubilee, they numbered ^Ir. Charles 1. Hunt secretary, with a committee of about 1,500, and now they were 2,500 strong. Theirs had been a eight members, including Mrs. Brinkley, who has worked propaganda society from the beginning, and it had been with us down to the present time, guided throughout by the co-operation of the spirit-world “ We decided to hold a public social gathering, and MR. W. T. COOPER’S HISTORICAL we issued notices broadcast, with the result that the RECOLLECTIONS. carpenter's shop was quite filled, In addition to the Fifteen years ago, the early history the persons 1 have already mentioned, \li Leigh Hunt oi then a youngster, came with his father \fv lames Marylebone Association was narrated to us by Burns, editor oi / k* \Udmm I U was present , 20 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. N o v e m b e r , 1932.
»Jso Mr. Towns, the materialising medium and water- " l should like to mention our deep indebtedness finder, and several ladies and gentlemen who were during the Cavendish Rooms period to Mr. George Sprigg» interested in the subject. Miss Rowan Vincent, and Miss S. McCreadie, who were most indefatigable workers, also Mr. and Miss Morse Next Premises a Police Court. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Wallis, Mrs. Everitt and Mr. George The re-organised society set to work in earnest, and Bibbings. Also I think I should not omit to mention the carpenter's shop was soon too small to accommodate the very great help which has been given on the musical all who came. After some difficulty, on account of the side of our services by my wife (formerly Miss Amy prejudice against Spiritualism, we obtained the use of Butterworth, R.A.M.). She has arranged and conducted a hall in the High Street, which had formerly been used the music since the opening of the Cavendish Rooms as the Marylebone Police Court. There was accom and is now very ably assisted by Mr. A. Clegg, who modation here for about 120 people. officiates at the organ. Florence Maryatt’s Opening Address. “ 1 naturally feel very proud of our Marylebone Society, We were all so enthusiastic about this first step in which occupies a premier position in London, and whole the way of progress that wo all gladly gave our time seances have always been more like family gatherings and work to clean and re-decorate the hall. We were than anything else." at it day and night, and soon had it ready for the opening » » m services. Mr. Leigh Hunt had a model printing press, on which he printed the public notices. Miss Florence SOME MEMORIES OF AN OLD MEMBER. Maryatt, the novelist and author of the book, ‘ There is no Death,' conducted the first meeting, and there was SPIRITUALIST who was a m em ber of quite a crowd to hear her. Her address was a splendid | the Marylebone Association thirty years oratorical effort and was very strong Spiritualism. For A the first time in the history of the Society carriages drove ago writes :— up to the hall with fashionable people seeking to gain " 1 was present at the great Diamond Jubilee meeting admittance, and many had to go away after the hall held in the Queen’s Hall last Sunday night, and though was full. Miss Maryatt herself could hardly get in, and impressed by the pleasing signs of present prosperity, it was only by using her genial personality she was able I found myself asking, ‘ Are our more spectacular methods to get through the crush. The service was a great success. really an advance on those of the old days, and is the Miss Alice Hunt conducted the musical part of the service. mediumship of to-day up to that of the splendid workers The collection amounted to over £g. From that time in the Cavendish Rooms period ? ' the work has gone steadily on. I I look back with affectionate memory, for example, to ' the McCreadie Nights,’ when the Rooms were always “ Religious and Spiritual Basis.” crowded out. Miss McCreadie was not only a persuasive “ We then had Sunday services, seances during the medium, but she had the great advantage of having week, tea meetings, and all the usual functions of a been a natural clairvoyant from her childhood, and she regular organised church. We always tried to keep used to tell how as a girl she had witnessed her grand the meetings on a highly religious and spiritual basis. mother’s spirit leaving the physical body at death. Her We did not encourage questions at the meetings because descriptions were very vivid and convincing, and her in the old carpenter’s shop days, what with questions messages from spirit friends to living persons in the and arguments, there were people who were ever ready audience were given with a tenderness and sympathy to turn the place into a secular bear-garden. We had a that greatly endeared her to those who received them. three years’ lease of this hall, and the work was ably She had a wonderful way of picking out absolute sustained by many willing workers. Mr. J. J. Morse, strangers to the subject on their first visit to the Rooms editor of the Two Worlds, came to address us on several and addressing her descriptions to them. Besides, occasions. having been brought up in a fervent evangelical family, Cavendish Rooms. her evenings were always characterised by a sincere religious atmosphere, and her pleasing quaint Scottish “ When our lease was up we again needed a larger accent had an attraction of its own. Miss Rowan Vincent hall, and were fortunate in securing Cavendish Rooms, and Madame de Beaurepaire were also both very charming Mortimer Street, W., which held an audience of 250 in their demonstrations of clairvoyance. Of the men people, and there we remained for about thirteen years. Mr. J. J. Vango was a favourite, and Mr. Vout Peters, These rooms were opened for us by Emma Hardinge who is still an active platform worker, will always be Britten, and as we engaged the best speakers and remembered for his intimate descriptions of spirits mediums that could be found, the services were carried belonging to foreign countries whose messages to their on with very great success. We remained there until living friends were often given in their own language. the building was pulled down. The secretaries during | But an outstanding feature of those early days was this period were Mr. Leigh Hunt and Mr. Stanley J. Watts. the rem arkable trance addresses of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. When Mr. Everitt died I became president. Wallis, Mr. J. J. Morse, Mr. W. J. Colville, and others. Shearn’s Restaurant and Steinway Hall. Some of these were in my opinion far superior from a “ When we left Cavendish Rooms we went to Shearn’s popular point of view to any being given at the present Restaurant in Tottenham Court Road for just over a day. Some of Mr. Wallis's were published in pamphlet year, then to the Art Centre in Mortimer Street for another form and will ever remain classics of their kind. Mr. year, and finally to the Steinway Hall in September, 1914. Morse had a Chinese guide, * Tien Sien Tie,’ who was After a year there we had to move, as the people who one of the most learned teachers of spirit truths we have used the hall on Sunday mornings had taken it for the ever had. evenings as well. “ An interesting custom of those days was to hand slips of paper to members of the audience on which An Anglican Church. questions were written and afterwards fully dealt with “ We next went to the Church of the Good Shepherd, by the controls. • Similar slips were handed out on which in Paddington Street, but were not long there owing subjects for treatment were written, and as soon as these to the bigotry of a clergyman who came and made a were read out after the address Mr. Colville would recite rather unseemly scene, for which he later apologised. an impromptu poem dealing cleverly with every one, From there we went to a hall at 77 New Oxford Street, though there might be fifty subjects in all. where we had already held week-night meetings. After " Mr. George Spriggs was then a very wonderful healer, a year there we again secured the use of the beautiful who had already been a notable materialising medium Steinway Hall. Mr. J. J. Morse conducted the opening in the West country before he came to London. At services on our return there on November 5, 1916. his seances at Cardiff the materialised spirits would walk out and talk with their earthly friends in the garden The Honorary Secretaries. We have nothing so wonderful nowadays. His brother, " We have been greatly indebted to the untiring zeal Mr. Fred. Spriggs, was also a devoted worker. Mr. Leigh of our honorary secretaries. During the past thirty Hunt was a most enthusiastic secretary, and he and his years till now (December, 1917) we have only had five, wife (a daughter of Mr. W. T. Cooper) were among the namely, Mr. Hector Rumford, two years; Mr. Leigh most active and popular members of the Association. Hunt, thirteen years; Mr. Stanley J. Watts, eight " Perhaps other old members of the Association can years; Mr. Douglas Neal, eight years; and now Mr. recall names and incidents of those palmy days in the George Craze for nearly a year. It is a splendid record past which would greatly interest the present generation of faithful work for the Cause. Some Leading Workers. III ” Oar history has been one of ebbs and flows, but Put on therefore gladness that hath always tawmr 1 am glad to say that never has our work been more before God, and is acceptable unto Uuu, ami delight ltear lily appr eciated than at present, when so many thyself in i t ; for every man that is glad dooth the things people tiercaved by the war are so anxiously wauting that are good, and thinketh good thoughts, despising the truth which has been committed to us, griei.—- Walter November, 1932 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 21
Classification of the Fairies I Have Seen. B y TOM CHARMAN, G o d sh ill. AVING lived for over thirty years in the I have never seen the mermaid type, so often shown New Forest, in daily contact with Nature, in children’s fairy-books. I suspect many of these H pictures are misleading, for they always show perfection I have long passed from the stage of in form. For example, the mermaid is always shown absolute scepticism as to the reality of fairies as the perfect top half of a human being, joined to the to a profound belief in their existence, for through perfect lower-half of a Ash, whereas throughout the my clairvoyance I have come ever closer to elemental world form is scarcely ever perfect, at any rate in balance as we know it in the human world. Thus the Fairy World. though it would be dogmatic to say that there are no For the sake of classification, fairies may be such things as mermaids, it seems more probable that divided into :— they are purely a creation of the artist’s mind, derived possibly from some low type of water-elemental in which (a) Water-Elementáis. the human and Ash forms are closely allied. (6) Fire-Elementals. (c) Air-Elementáis. (b) Fire-Elementals. (d) Earth-Elementáis. Fire-elementals or salamanders frequent household Ares, though by no means do they visit all hearths. I may I will take them in order and describe a few go weeks without seeing any, and then suddenly one or of my clairvoyant visions, and also discuss any more will appear in the,midst of the flames. They do ideas that may arise from them. all sorts of curious things, such as lie down, skip about, or handle the hot embers with great amusement. Their I should say here that most of my experiences faces are broader than those of most fairies. Often on a occur on retiring at night, which I often do at winter’s night, when my Are is crackling merrily on the an early hour, for the darkness and quiet of my hearth and the sparks flying up the chimney, these little room provide perfect conditions for this species creatures dance in the flickering flames, their limbs and quaint dresses shining red in the glowing embers. On of clairvoyance. I am always conscious and their arrival the fire becomes truly animated with fairy never in trance. life. They are nearly always in the fire, though at times they appear outside the flames close to the fireplace.
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le men Peters «äys be spoils 0 their ge- vs was NYMPHS OF THE WOODS. A PIXIE OF THE WOODS. E. W. Playing around a Mushroom. others Note the two with long caps watching the butterfly. As seen and sketched by Tom Charman. from a As seen and sketched by Tom Charman. firesenr {a) Water-Elementals. One January night I saw a beautiful specimen of this m p h k t My contacts with these are less frequent than with species, which I got intuitively as “ The Fire-King.” His 1 Mr. the other three varieties. Some years ago I had a most face was very ruddy and suggested great purity and ID pjpjjfi striking experience which deeply impressed me. I had strength. One evening soon after, I was sitting without e have retired early, and immediately on getting into bed felt a light and the fire was almost out. Suddenly my as though I were being transported through space— an attention was aroused by the sight of little salamanders fafiiiDT experience I not infrequently have. Then I found myself running about on the floor. They were throwing “ fire ” under water, floating around some huge rocks. After about the room. This seemed to be generated from them, some minutes it occurred to me that I ought to be as they simply threw forward their hands and long streaks breathing, and I felt considerable alarm in consequence. or ribbons of fire proceeded from them. They took But I was assured by an invisible companion that this great delight in this performance, which lasted some time. was unnecessary. That was indeed true, for I seemed to reai.am under water for about half an hour with perfect (c) Air-Elementals. ease. Air-elementals or sylphs are amongst the most beautiful During thi« period 1 saw some most weird and wonderful of fairies. The most typical of them have long hair and creatures. Little half-human beings, with large heads flowing garments, which stream gracefully behind them and frog-like bodies, and others like huge tadpoles, as they float through the air. They have also very long floated past me. They took not the slightest notice of necks, and sometimes so thin that one wonders how they me but sailed past, with the numerous Ashes, intent on can carry their heads. These bodily characteristics are their own business. accompanied by a temperament dirtering from that of One little creature, more human in shape than the most elementals. They carry with them an atmosphere others was apparently amusing itself with a huge of gentleness and calm, which reveals itself in their voracious-looking Ash, but it seemed to have not the grace and smoothness of movement. rfigtiMt fear, and kept pushing a sort of sponge-like One of my most beautiful clairvoyant experiences was substance into the Ash's mouth, which shows that on witnessing one of their great gatherings. It was one that pH” *- at any rate they are all on friendly terms. night when I had shut my eyes and was thinking of At that time I did not see any of the higher forms of nothing in particular. There first appeared before me a É0» mtsr-dMUiOttis, but on other occasions 1 have seen sylph in an exquisitely coloured dress, and then a multitude wonderful water-ladies, dressed in magnificent garments. of others, equally resplendent, came floating m from all Tbuse wsta-duneDtah can always be distinguished sides. The grace of the dresses and the magnificence of feus flu otbv varieties by their Ashy appearance and the colouring almost took my breath a\va\ and l could W00P tit watery atmosphere that surrounds them. 1 have not refrain from exclaiming at the beauty ot the scene, n m W t M ts them out of water, though occasionally they they floated aiouiui m a continuous undulating lute apfusur ob the surface. with the tiauquil smoothuoss oi smoke oil a windless d&v 22 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE NttOftnltfr, IV3l.
l he dresses resembled light and feathery clouds at sunset, their head ili cmh, and I heir hair in* oil eu pul up mid mint no| or rainbow-coloured cobwebs on bright autumn mornings. in most fantastic ímhIiíoii In pr*><
THE The great emancipation from the age-long thraldom of enmity and strife and sin has got International Psychic Gazette to be met, with direct, definite, personal individual The Independent Monthly Organ of and collective activity. We tell you that the Spiritualism and Psychical Research. complete emancipation from that thraldom will All communications for the Publishing, Editorial, or Adver not be done for you. All awakened individuals Using Departments should be addressed to— must take their individual share of responsibility, 69, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.I. face the issue, think, and work. The threatening Nemesis of past causes, which was hurrying towards you as though slipping down a great incline with a tremendous Spirit Teachings for the momentum, and which would have blotted out Present Times— III. civilisation, and destroyed the face of the earth, has been averted, and kept back, and a freedom These Spiritual Messages from the Other World have been received through mediumistic channels and are directed given to the world because of the great cry towards the World’s Redemption from the present Reign coming almost unconsciously from the heart of Materialism, which has only led to widespread of humanity! ruin and confusion, and towards the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, so that all nations may This great hungering cry has actually been coming become united in love, peace, and righteousness. from the soul of the people as a direct product of the world war. It is an example of evil shooting beyond THE CHRIST-SPIRIT SPEAKS. its mark, and weakening itself thereby. AM The Christ, the Ever-living Light within thee. The reason why the call of the earth has been 1 At thy desire I am come to regenerate thy earth- consciousness. answered by a spiritual influx, which has swept When thou didst pass through the gates of birth thou away the great, elemental, threatening octopus, didst drink of the miasmic waters of decay and death. is that a new opportunity or vision has been Listen not to the voice of thy earthly self, and I will vouchsafed. give thee a new conception of life. The practical meaning of this vision is that I will give thee the key of My infinite resources within mankind is not to herd gregariously, and move thee. with mass instincts, but that man during this Listen for My soundless voice within the sacred silence great granted freedom is to express himself of thyself, and that voice shall dissolve the spirit of darkness and create w ithin thee a new mind and a new body. individually. He is not to put his responsibility Trust thou in Me, I will never leave thee. upon the society in which he lives, nor on the In Me there is nothing to fear. government which controls the state of which he is a part, nor on the church, who in one of her MAN’S RESPONSIBILITY AT THE PRESENT organised phases seeks to enslave the people by TIME. authority, thus robbing man of his initiative to HE shadows of disaster which threatened your think and act individually. T world have not been able to find a sufficient The world is yours, oh sons of men ! You can response, and the tentacles of the great make it what you will 1 Arise, remove from your octopus which sought to envelop it in its eyes the blinkers of superstition, and gaze upon the smothering arms, have been unable to make light, and in that light shoulder, oh multitudinous sufficient contact to pull down the good forces men, each of you, your own responsibility ! and destroy the earth. It is true that there are By so doing, because of the light that is in festering spots in various parts of the earth, you, and around you— the Omnipresent Divinity but it is also true that a call has gone out around —you can defeat both the plot and counterplot your world, inarticulate though it be, for the which work for ill. help of the Beings of Light. Relegate not your prerogative to another, but That semi-conscious call of the world has been think and act spiritually, as far as you can answered, and so the shadow which threatened has understand the meaning of spirit, and the little been temporarily driven away, and is drifting out light that is within you will grow more and into the vast spaces where there is nothing for it to more. Yoij are not responsible for the greater contact. light that may be in another. You are only Your world can lift up its head, and throw responsible for the light that is within you . back its shoulders, and breathe for a while the Whether the Kingdom may come in these great pure breath, the sweetening revivifying days to earth is not dependent upon any arbitrary life, which is pouring into the pores of your world. fixed law in the mental cosmos, but it is dependent But. do not think that the destructive danger upon the shouldering by each man of his own is passed for all time. We would not say it is a responsibility; praying in his own fashion; truce in chaos, but we do say, it is an answer thinking, and working. to the yearning of those who have called. Pray for yourself, think for yourself, work for l he voice is more than the voice of the Church, yourself, and that for which you pray will mock which is a stifled voice. you, that of which you think will confuse you, It is more than the working out of the mind and that for which you work will put you in in philosophy, tinged with this -ism and that -ism. bondage. It is more than the voice which has been But pray, and think, and work for the great wrung from capitalists, when they have faced kingdom of love, and beauty, and light, and all what looked like a debacle between their capital and those who labour. the principles that are in the heavenly worlds Do that, and you will set the world free, and the 1 he call has been a real world call from all nations more or less. shadows that hover and hang will be dispelled If is the call of the soul of humanity from and dissolved. The veils of sense will he tin instincts of humanity, rather than from the heightened, and visible and invisible shall meet, «-litr« 1 uj speculations in the mental workings of and angels will commune with men. humanity, Be possessed with these thoughts, w ith this *iere U ,hU altitude, this freedom »Wiling Mack»«, and destruction, message, so that you can with d ignity hand m »«w MUe has not been won. it on, for it is for the men, and lor the \v\wiien. N o v e m b e r, 1932. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE 25
OIJR INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE: A MONTHLY RECORD OF SPIRITUALISTIC AND PSYCHIC HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WITH SOME PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. B y MONSIEUR PASCAL FORTHUNY. {Thu Chronicle is Written in French, and is Translated into English by the Editor.) lpcrsonal IRecollections. But my slumber was. sadly troubled. I dreamt I saw robbers scaling the walls of my property, hiding themselves MY PARADOXICAL LETTER. in my cellars, drinking my wine, penetrating into my R. HUBERT-FILLAY, an advocate and salon and carrying off a precious statue that stands there. author of great talent, is one of my best A most uncalled-for dream, as I had no thoughts of any M such intrusion in my waking moments. friends. He lives at Blois, the city with In the morning at dejeuner I told Madame Forthuny the beautiful castle. about this nightmare, in the presence of the same maid We do not correspond much for he is a great worker, servant from whose bed the dry mattress had been as I am also. However, the other morning I was seized borrowed and who was waiting at table. As I proceeded by an irresistible impulse to send him a letter. It became with my story I observed that the maid was manifesting a curious letter. Though written on the n th of Septem the greatest possible astonishment and I asked her what ber it assumed the tone of a Yuletide greeting. I told was the matter. She replied :— him that I prayed heaven to grant happiness to himself “ Monsieur, that dream you had is quite extraordinary, and his family, and I freely gave expression to that class for it is precisely the same dream I was dreaming when I of sentiments one scarcely mentions except at the end of was awakened to re-make your bed. The robbers, the December. It was a sort of “ W ishing you a merry wine drunk in the cellar, the statue carried away, every Christmas and a H appy New Y ear ” letter ! When it thing, everything is the same. I too dreamt all these was finished I hesitated to send it, for it seemed to be things. One might think that my dream was attached quite obviously out of season. Nevertheless I decided to the mattress which was carried from my room to to post it and see what came of it. yours ? ” In two days I had Mr. H ubert-Fillay’s reply. He Of course the good maid did not think any such thing wrote :— " My friend, you are decidedly a great sorcerer ! possible, but I am disposed to believe that that was the When your letter arrived my wife and I were speaking of sort of phenomenon that had really happened. This vou. We were all at table holding high festival in celebra much is certain that scarcely Ifad I laid myself on this tion of my 53rd birthday ! You will see then how your borrowed mattress than I began to repeat the maid's good wishes for health and long life arrived marvellously dream from beginning to end just as it had happened to apropos. I thank you with my whole heart. I cannot her shortly before. help thinking you were inspired by some good genie, for I leave my readers to explain this strange coincidence certainly you did not know that I had arrived in this as they can and will. I merely narrate the facts to add world on the 13th of September, 1879. My compliments an amusing incident to the history of dreams, and to the on your clairvoyance ! ” records that concern transmission of thought. Then I understood why I had not been able to resist writing so paradoxically to m y very dear friend of Blois ! HEALING AT A DISTANCE. “ THE WATER IS YOUR ENEMY ! ” Mr. W. K., of Knysna, South Africa, has Mr. H e n r y D u b r e t , a jeweller, is another of addressed to me the following goodly sheaf of my dear friends. questions about healing :— Eleven years ago, he and his family spent Sunday with “ Is there any truth, in psychic or spiritual mental us at my house. His son, Jean-Pierre, was then a healing ? Is it possible for a person resident in one charming, remarkably intelligent youngster, eight years country to heal a resident in another country ? old. Mr. Dubret asked me to tell the little fellow something Is there anything in spiritual mental healing ? I about his destiny, so having meditated a moment I should be much obliged if you could give me the name said :— “ My child, you are endowed with a remarkable and address of the best-known healer in Europe. faculty for learning. You will always be a brilliant Is it possible for a clairvoyant to tell a person's pupil in the schools. But fear the water, for the water health by means of a photograph or an article worn is your enemy. You can have a very beautiful life if by the person ? ” you will take great care to protect yourself, with vigilance, I reply then : Yes, dear sir, mental, psychic, and against this enemy.” spiritual healing are realities in the world to-day. Proofs Ti me passed. J ean-Pierre grew up in grace and strength of their efficacy are innumerable. Cures can be accom and at the Alsatian School in Paris he was the admiration plished at a distance. I cannot give the address of the of his masters and comrades on account of his character, best healer in Europe because I don't know it, but efficient his assiduity, and his successes. healers are legion throughout Europe. A clairvoyant His parents, I myself, and perhaps he too, had long can define an illness by the examination of a photograph forgotten the warning about water being inimical to him. or by holding some article the patient has worn. But a few weeks ago when we were enjoying the real I may add, without claiming that I am a healing sunshine and warmth of an old-fashioned summer, Jean- medium, that I have tried various experiments in that Pierre, now nineteen years of age, was on holiday at the domain which happily were successful. Here are two house of Mr. Politis, a well-known personality in Greek cases :— politics. Mr. Politis’ villa is at Melun, a little town not Inr ite m Paris. One day Jean-Pierre was bathing and (1) . Eighteen months ago, an aged lady. Madame swimming in the Seine with young Mr. Politis, when he Lerebourg, of 12 rue des Ecoles, Pavilion F., Villejuif, fainted and sank to the bottom of the river, which was Seine, came to see me. She then hobbled along on two about twenty feet deep at the spot. His body was only crutches, being almost paralysed by rheumatism. I recovered twenty-three hours later. essayed to cure her by sending her every month some You can imagine with what deep sorrow 1 heard this linen bandages which I had first worn on myself for three news, which confirmed so tragically the warning 1 was days. Yesterday (September 27) I received a letter from inspired to give Jean-Pierre in 1921 ! her saying that she was very happy for her rheumatism had gone completely and she was now able to walk quite MY MAID-SERVANT’S DREAM. well without crutches. She is coming to show me this happy result soon. One evening last week I was seized with (2) . The little daughter of Mr. J. Plauchenault. shivering and a touch of fever just when I was Impasse des Docks, Tours, was suffering cruelty two years thinking of retiring for the night. ago from violent nervous attacks, of an epileptic uaturc. Madame hurthuuy therefore instructed a maid-servant The family sent me a little coral necklace the child had to put a but water copper receptacle in my bed. This been in the habit of wearing. 1 wore it on tuy wrist tor mwfallit vessel had a defective stopper and when 1 went 48 hours and sent it back Since then l have received H mv room 1 found that it had leaked so badly that the and returned it to Tours every month. The troubles have U?dcIutiiMN and mat ires* were saturated virtually ceased and the child's health has become almost My wife heut fur tlie maid, who it seems was already normal. in intd and sieepinu profoundly, to tome and make tor me 1 . . | . , UKU . | , VIY ** * » / V VMUVUIV-UVI VO , § VKU\ \ know H new and di y bed (she speedily did so, borrowing from but l don t believe it l believe uuhei that there has her own tuuifi the only mat 11 css which properly lifted been some uatural magnetic action. 01 some o tW U J my irt*d.tituw(} flftiiip nil the mischief was repaired and 1 which 1 have been tan nutted to use tu th. r Ml salnap at moat at uutu, tu K'ltyvu v M im , « • " » »* "•'< « 26 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. N o v em b er, 1932,
SPIRITUAL HEALING. NOTABLE DECLARATION BY PROF. RJCHET There has just come under my eyes the “ COBBLER ” CRITICISM REPLIED TO. following case of purely spiritual healing reported It is in the review L c M o is that Professor in Les Echos des Sciences Mysterieusesy for Charles Richet, the illustrious member of the October, 1932 :— Metapsychic Institute, thus speaks of the criticism A- druggist whose shop is in the Market Place at of Psychical Research :— Niori, not far from the banks of the Sevre, whose testimony " I cite first of all the authority of scientists. It is is trustworthy has just told me this story :— very easy to say that they have been deceived. That is Some years ago I suffered terribly in my knee, and an objection which comes ready to hand for the first it was not without anxiety that I saw the hunting season cobbler who comes along. When the great William approaching, for hunting is my greatest pleasure, and I Crookes relates what he has seen in his laboratory— Katie decided to do everything possible not to be deprived of it. King, a phantom capable of living, moving, breathing I count many doctors among my friends. I saw alongside her medium Florence Cook— the cobbler in them all. One of them made sixty pricks of electricity question may shrug his shoulders and say, | It is impossible: into my knee, which was veritable torture. Alas 1 I Crookes is an imbecile ! But this wretched cobbler neither continued to suffer. The hunting season would begin discovered thalium, nor radiant matter, nor lamps which without me ! give us the light of electricity. If then the cobbler tells " * In despair, I decided to consult old Father Mureau, me that Crookes is an imbecile, it is I who shrug my who died last year, and whose renown as a healer was shoulders. great. The good priest silently recited a prayer, touched 1 It matters little to me even if the cobbler has in his my knee with his forefinger, and that was all. wake a swarm of journalists, who have also seen nothing “ ' But now I beg you to believe me when I affirm that and studied nothing, and who likewise tell me that the I was at once radically cured of my excruciating pain, opinion of Crookes does not count. I am in no way that I was able to go to the hunt, and that from that day disturbed. till now I have never suffered again.’ ” “ Even if Crookes were alone ! B ut no, there are at least fifty scientists, great scientists, who report such SIR WALTER SCOTT AND SPIRITUALISM. extraordinary psychical phenomena. Am I to suppose . Apropos of the recent celebration of the that they are all humbugs and madmen ? ” centenary of Sir Walter Scott, a reader asks me NEW EXPERIMENTS WITH PASQUALE ERTO. if therejii any book in existence which gathers In my Chronicle for April, 1932, I gave many up the fragments j bearing on Spiritualistic particulars of the mediumship of Pasquale phenomena and their interpretation which are Erto, who was disqualified by the Metapsychic scattered through Scott's novels. Institute of Paris in spite of Dr. Geley’s serious I do not know of any such book but I certainly hope there may soon be one, for more than one of his heroes misgivings and the confidence of Erto’s own and heroines had occasion to be confronted by spirits countrymen. from the other world. In Scott's works there is almost The Italian review La Ricerca Psichica gives an account as much mystery as reality. Many women in the romances of some of his recent seances. For example, on May 13, floated between earth and heaven, and sorcerers are not 1932, Erto was tested at the house of Professor Merloni, lacking. in Rome, in the presence of five persons provided with Sir Walter gave a considerable place in his writings to photographic cameras. The medium’s hands were bound the living-dead, and from this point of view as from many with iron manacles, as used for criminals, and he was in others his influence on the world's literature was deep trance. The voice of Fagal, one of Erto’s guides, prodigious. French Romanticism owes its taste for phan was heard, and very powerful luminous phenomena were tasmal apparitions to him. Alexander Dumas, like many produced. One of these was in the form of a fiery cross. other historical and legendary novelists, sprang from Then his bonds were burst asunder and with his hands Scott. Balzac would probably never have written his outstretched a spirit control in a strong voice said, “ Seraphita,” which is highly Spiritualistic, had he not " Brothers, peace be with you ! ” known and loved the tales of Scott of Abbotsford. “ The Erto's hands and arms were next very tightly roped, Chouans,” by Balzac, was manifestly inspired by his but immediately there were lightning flashes and the having read “ Kenilworth " and “ Quentin Durward.” ropes were shattered. These things, the experimenters were Yes, it would be well if some lover of Scott should convinced, could not have happened by any normal means. extract from the novels all that has relation to psychical Another experiment was made in the same house on phenomena, and popular beliefs concerning them, and to May 18 before seven persons, four of them doctors. publish them with commentaries from the point of view Before the seance the medium was completely examined of present day knowledge ; for great progress has been by Dr. Weiss and then sewn up in a sack drawn tight at made in this realm since Sir Walter, with the murmur of the neck and fixed with sealing-wax. Erto fell into his beloved Tweed in his ears, passed to the Beyond a trance, awoke, fell asleep again, shook, groaned, suffocated, hundred years ago. p p perspired. The collar was too tight and it was made easier. He then fell into a profound trance, during which foreign Chronicle. a rustling of paper was heard. When the seance was THE POPE AND SPIRITUALISM. over, a sheet of paper was found at the medium’s feet, on which was written, “ Terno secco per Roma. 2-22-47." HAVE gathered in ecclesiastical quarters a The writing was that of the advocate Raffaele Merloni, I piece of news which cannot at present be who was present but who declared that he had no recollec absolutely confirmed but bears the marks of tion of having ever written anything of that kind, and that he had certainly never introduced the paper into the the highest probability. seance room. That was a very strange phenomenon, I am informed that His Holiness the Pope, who has very difficult to explain, but the probity of Ratfaek already expressed his opinions on Spiritualism, its Merloni was above all suspicion. The most mysterious doctrines and experiments, is at this moment preparing thing of all was that the figures on the paper were those a new Encyclical addressed to Spiritualists throughout with which the doctor’s mother had played at the lottery the world. This document is being elaborated with pru in Rome a month earlier. Had the doctor written them dent leisureliness, but the authorities at the Vatican down then, put the piece of paper in his pocket, believe it will be issued within a few months. and forgotten all about it ? Even so, Erto had no chance According to my information the Pope, while of abstracting it from anywhere, for he had been subjected condemning Spiritualism so far as it has been destructive to the closest surveillance from the moment of the medical of faith, will give proof of his liberal spirit by proclaiming scrutiny till the end of the experiment. But the doctor that he does not absolutely prohibit Spiritualistic inves declared that he had no memory of ever writing dowu the tigations, but that it is the duty of every Catholic, before figures, at the same time asserting that the writing was participating in these, to obtain express permission from precisely his own and no imitation. the religious authorities. The mystery might be explained by spirit agency since The Pontiff will underline his view that Spiritualism it is not uncommon for spirits to deposit written documents is too often a terrible arm in the hands of impostors, but and recognisable facsimile signatures during seances his Encyclical will be drawn up in such terms as will show while their medium is in trance Another ikWiabk that the Pope can recognise the reality of certain psychical explanation is that the piece oi paper had hevu phenomena, without attributing their origin to the action “ uupurted ” into the room from the doctor s house* aheet of the devil, it had lain forgotten for a mouth 1 tw>c atv aff If tins document is really about to be issued and spread possibilities, but Erto’s own guide might give previse throughout tire world it will be awaited with the most information, if questioned w hen ne\t the medium is 11 curious impatience. trance, November, 1932. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. 27
EXPERIMENTS IN NORWAY. MEDIUMSHIP IN ITALY. It is with an equal intensity that a Norwegian There exists in Palermo, Italy, a Psychical Society for Psychic Studies functions at Oslo. Association which experiences a type of medium Recently this Society has had demonstrations from the Hungarian medium, Madame L. Linczegh-Ignath, whose ship more common in Anglo-Saxon than in Latin achievements have been so remarkable that the whole countries. Scandinavian Press has spoken of them. The two mediums are a brother and a sister named The newspaper Didens Tegn gives details of a seance Fornis. Many witnesses testify that through their presided over by Professors Jaeger and Wereide, of Oslo gifts they have been put in spiritual contact with their University. An expert chemist, Dr. Jorgen Bull, had beloved dead, whose characteristics physical and moral brought six waxed sheets on which the medium was to have been described to them with extraordinary fidelity. try to inscribe at a distance, without contact, a name These entities, making use of the vocal organs of the which was proposed. The name was in fact written, mediums, converse with their living friends, speak to and very legibly, on these wax tablets, notwithstanding them of their private life and unspoken intentions in the that they were carefully locked up in a box. The inscrip most intimate manner. The masculine Fornis conveys tions were examined with a magnifying glass and were the messages with precision and in plain language. His found to have been bombarded by rays of amazing sister adorns them with symbols and images. It is activity projected by the medium. agreed that even if these communications were merely Another wonderful result realised by this Hungarian thought-reading— a common explanation by unbelievers-- medium was the following : She concentrated her thought they would still have a considerable value. on the surface of a tumbler, and thereupon there formed on this surface materialisations of pictures in miniature, PETITES NOUVELLES. no larger than a nut. These pictures were mostly of Madame Marie Kaminska, writes me from Czecho human heads, and photographs were taken of them with slovakia, kindly offering to send me the news of the ordinary cameras. Spiritualist movement in that country. I am certain A SPIRITUALIST EMPIRE. . these documents would add to the interest of my monthly The young Emperor of Assam has just returned chronicles, and I therefore thank Madame Kaminska in advance for her friendly and fraternal co-operation. to his kingdom after having lived several years The Harbinger of Light, in an important article on the in Paris for his education. relations between Spiritualism and the Church, quotes He had resumed occupation at Hué of the palaces of the following declarations from eminent Spiritualists :— his ancestors, palaces of which one may say that every F. W. H. Myers.— “ I cannot in any deep sense contrast stone is saturated with Spiritualism. These edifices my present creed with Christianity. Rather I regard were constructed according to the plans of mandarins it as a scientific development of the attitude and teaching who had consulted the invisible powers regarding their of Christ.” situation and the orientation of their façades. Sir Oliver Lodge.— | Although it is not by my religious The people of the country are certain that good faith that I have been led to my present position yet protecting spirits hover over the canals, ramparts, trenches everything I have learned tends to increase my love and and gates of the citadel, and that guardian angels haunt reverence for the personality of the central Figure of the the various administrations of the State within the keep Gospels.” of the imperial palaces. The sentinels who keep guard L' Evolution Spirituelle et So dale is a new French at the gates pray at night to these good spirits, and carry monthly whose aim is " t o develop Spiritualism in the fruits and incense to the altars consecrated to them. world and to fight against Materialism.” Our best At the entrance to the canal from the palace the soldiers wishes for success ! have engraved on stone this prayer to the Spirit of the In the passing hence of Mr. Ernest Love, Australian Waters, “ We ask thee for that which is good, that you Spiritualism has lost one of its best exponents. He was should bring it to us, and concerning what is bad that you a pioneer of the Victorian Council of Spiritual Churches, should keep it far from us.” and assisted at the private circle of Mr. Edgar Tozer as Thus in its imperial dwellings, its ministries, pavilions, a Rescue Medium. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was present public buildings, gardens, and parks, throng, invisible at one of his seances and was deeply impressed by it. but everywhere present, the innumerable spiritual guar The Congress of the Belgian National Spiritualists’ dians of Assam, the astral army which guarantees the Union will be held in Namur in 1933. happiness and peace of the kingdom. P. F. But the Assa mites are also aware that during the night the grave and haughty spirits of its defunct emperors wander through the immense palaces and rest before those Note.— Communications for our Continental Editor monuments to their memory on which are engraved should be addressed to Monsieur Pascal F orthuny, their names, the duration of their reigns, and accounts 10 Avenue Frédéric Forthuny, Soisy-sous-Montmorency, of their achievements when on earth. France. A Credo for the Present Age. B y V . M A Y COTTRELL, N e w Z e a l a n d . I Believe in God Almighty. I Believe in the Communion of Saints. The purposeful, uplifting Spirit *of Good. The The conscious and controlled interchange of Creator and Sustainer of all Life and activity thoughts and ideas between those who have passed throughout the Universe. on to the next stage of existence and their fellows / Believe in Jesus Christ, still in the flesh. Perfect manifestation of Good in human form, / Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins. whose strength and beauty of character, purity of The blotting out of unavailing regret from our aim and definiteness of purpose, make him a pattern consciousness, through the power of our enlarged fur all his spiritual brethren to mould their lives bv. vision and deeper understanding of life, which I Believe in the Holy Ghost. reveals our human faults and frailties as the pitiful The God within each human being, whose immense results of our childlike ignorance of spiritual values, potentialities and powers are as yet scarcely guessed, natural law, and our own best interests. even by the most earnest and intelligent investigators of spiritual phenomena. I Believe in the Resurrection. The complete separation of the ethereal body from I Believe in the Holy Trinity. its denser physical envelope at death, and its con bather, Mother, and Child, as exemplifying the tinued existence on another plane of being when natural and beautiful working of Divine Love in silver cord is loosed and the physical organism k 'V human lives. into dliwdn fm and decay I Believe in the Church of God. / Believe in the Life Everlasting, Holy, active, incorruptible, which functions con AS' endksns and. tncmpangty happy and useful life tinually throughout the world, quite irrespective of m where hamaa b e a p n all grade* o f mental colour, creed or atatiou, tusking iU helpful uplifting influence felt in increasing measure through the mMMrteuaitv tu* * * 1 ^ «cop* and manifeetation of wonderful God-like qualities in i nit * itltlu tl human beings a ------a . ______n w ****** * W * K fe Ift 28 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE. November, 1932. I I Spiritualism Not Contrary to Christ’s Teaching.’’ “ NO COMMUNION OF SAINTS WITHOUT COMMUNICATION.” K. J, ARTHUR FINDLAY, author of the What Wesley Missed. J well-known book, " On the Edge of Prior to 1543, Europe enjoyed a great mental calm. M the Etheric,” delivered a lecture on his In those days nobody discussed Spiritualism. They accepted what the Church taught. Eighty-four years ago psychic experiences and views to an audience rappings occurred in the house of a little-known family of over 2,000 people in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, called Fox. He had studied very carefully the evidence on Tuesday night, October n . for the Fox family rappings, and he was quite certain they were genuine. That was the beginning of what was Following Socrates’ Example. now called modern Spiritualism, because Mrs. Fox was The VTry R r v . Dr. N orman Maclean, ex-Moderator the first person who was intelligent enough to think out of the Church of Scotland, and a very valiant Highland the question. If John Wesley had had that intelligence, chieftain at that, said (according to the Scotsman report) Methodism might have had a very different course to that one of the greatest and best of the human race had what it had had, because Wesley also experienced rappings. spent the last day of his earthly life in keeping high debate about death. " As 1 am going to another place,” Spiritualism is Killing Materialism. said Socrates, ” it is very meet for me to be thinking and Although they were now looking at the physical world, talking of the end of the pilgrimage which I am about yet above them and within them and interpenetrating to make. What can 1 do better in the interval between the physical world, there was an etheric world, which this and the setting sun ? ” It seemed to him (Dr. their senses could not catch because of its higher vibration Maclean) that they could not do better that night in the rate. They might wonder why it was becoming under interval before tlic hour of rest than to think of that standable to-day. Why was it that Spiritualism was pilgrimage they must start upon soon and the goal which making such enormous strides ? The reason why Materialism had flourished during the last century and they must attain. lie had the more readily consented to preside because the previous century was that their ignorant ancestors in Mr. Findlay’s book he had found nothing contrary thought that a text in Leviticus meant that everyone to the teaching of the Bible or to the revelation made who had abnormal powers should be burned. If they through Jesus Christ their Lord— (applause)— for the burned all the mediums to-day they would set back the message of the Church was the message of immortality, cause of Spiritualism and make communication with the founder of the Church was the Lord risen. The fact the etheric world impossible, but news was coming through that He convinced His disciples that He was alive and every day and in every way. The waves of the spirit was able to communicate with them was the fact from world were breaking with increasing intensity on the which Christianity set forth to conquer, and that was shores of the physical world. Clairvoyants could see and the fact Mr. Findlay set himself to make real to those hear what other people could not see and hear. When who read his writings or listened to his voice. they thought of the universe as vibrations and thought of the etheric world as just a higher range of the physical Following the Example of Jesus Christ. world, they could understand how it was possible for One of the great doctrines of the Church was the trees, fields, and houses— everything they had in this Communion of Saints, and that the dead and the living world— to be in the other world also. Psychic healing were knit together in unbreakable bonds. They could was going on throughout the world with absolutely not have communion without communication. Jesus successful results through mediums. The etheric body Christ communicated across death with his disciples. was a . real body; the etheric world was a real world. Christianity told them that the Christian should be like The personality never died ; they always retained their Christ. There was nothing contrary to the teaching of individuality. Those were the fundamentals about Christ in saying that all those who had passed on should which he had not the least doubt. be able to communicate with those who were left. Mrs. Hewat Mackenzie, proposed a vote of thanks to Now that teaching had been enforced in the last the chairman, and Mrs. Annie Johnson, of London, gave generation by that great body of investigators, the a half-hour’s demonstration of clairvoyance, pronouncing Society of Psychical Research. When they thought of a number of names which were answered to by members the names of those men who had been pioneers in the of the audience, and delivering short messages in each work—Sir William Crookes, Alfred Russel Wallace, case. Lord Raleigh, Sir William Barrett, Mr. A. J. Balfour, ^ s ^ afterwards Earl Balfour, who became president of the Society; Mr. Gladstone, who declared that psychical The Spiritualists* great annual Armistice Service of research was by far the greatest work now being done Re-union and Remembrance will be held in the Albert in the world -when they thought of them they need Hall on Sunday evening, November 13.— See advertisement not be afraid that if they confessed an interest in the on front page of cover. subject people would begin to think that they were “ The Children’s Greater World ” is the title of a new weak-minded. (Laughter.) Sir Oliver Lodge had assured illustrated magazine just started for the instruction and them that the discoveries of psychical research had made entertainment of Spiritualist children, and we heartily the communion of saints real. And certainly, to any wish it success. man or woman who was awakened to the reality of the I Letters from Sir Oliver Lodge ” is the title of a notable realm of the unseen by the work of Mr.’ Findlay, that new book by Mr. J. Arthur Hill, who has compiled and was a great ally to the cause of religion. annotated Sir Oliver’s letters on psychical, religious, Debt to Dr. John Lamond. scientific, and personal subjects. It is published by They owed a tremendous debt to a former minister Cassels at 10/6 net, and will be reviewed in our December of the city of Edinburgh who devoted his last years number. entirely to the cause of psychical research. He referred Chesham Spiritualist Church opened its beautiful and to Dr. John Lamond, minister of (»roenside. (Applause.) commodious new building on September 25 with a service Dr. Lamond was a friend to all men, and a more single- of dedication and harvest thanksgiving. Mr. Gerald de minded, more devout, more faithful Christian never Beaurepaire delivered a stirring trance address, and laboured in the city, lie was a beautiful character, and spirit-descriptions were given by Mrs. C. M. Hughes. An they all remembered him. He suggested that the audience after-service was conducted by Mrs. M. Gamer, of should stand for a minute in silence, remembering their Tolworth, who gave an address and clairvoyance. brother, and this was done. The Cheltenham Spiritualist Church has held successful A Door or a Wall ? harvest festival meetings, at which ¿15 was raised for Mr, I1 inulay said that e v e ry o n e must h a v e thought : the Cheltenham General Hospital. Mr. W. R. Sharp Is death a door or a wall ? Is life the beginning or the conducted the services and gave convincing demon end ? These questions must o ccu r an d had occurred strations of clairvoyance. A hymn specially composed to ev ery thinking, he mighl almost say every unthinking, for the occasion by Mr. W. S. Miles was sung at the person, because everyone must woiulur : Js the cemetery Sunday evening service, when the Church was filled to the end of out existence here or is it not ? He was there overflowing. to try to show them that earth was hut the nursery of Lady Conan Doyle had a most interesting series of Hie human race ami their time here a preparation for a illustrated articles in the Daily Sketch, running from greater and better life m a world mm around and above October 11 to 17. Therein her Ladyship told the stun them All tli(< doubts and difficulties• they had been of convincing evidential messages received through up against were due to one word ignorance because tlieic was a. veil between Hie the mediumship of Mrs. Caird, a Scotswoman, from sui' the veil was thinninu, an wo worlds. Fortunately Arthur, and how he still helps in business and pn\*te thinned to sm h an extentYi 0 many ol " them " 'm n it ■ had ucen been affairs in the family council. Two remarkable hfe-hhe spirit photographs ol Sir Arthur appeared among the illustrations. Noi'ember, 1932. THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE 29
NOBLE LORD’S FAKED “EXPOSURE” OF AN HONEST MEDIUM. & Continued from page 18. to get extras to-night, and quite a lot of them.” I said, HIS LORDSHIP FINALLY CAVES IN ! ” You seem rather sure of yourself,” and he replied,* ” Oh, we are going to have a very successful evening.’’’ However, he must have begun to think things over, « Naturally I did not dream there was anything behind for on Saturday morning (yesterday) I received this these remarks. letter from his secretary :— & Donegall and Folkard sat for the six exposures and Northcliffe House, E.C.4. Swaffer and Goldston sat around. The six plates were October 14, 1932. handed to Tiverton, who made the exposures. I simply Dear Mr. Myers,— Lord Donegall has asked K Ut stood by, going into a semi-trance. me to send on the enclosed slide to you. At the After the seance, Donegall and Folkard went into same time he desires me to thank you for the loan the dark room and I went with them. Folkard developed of it, and he hopes it has not put you to any incon V the plates and I stood at his right hand side in the full venience whatsoever.— Yours faithfully, light, Donegall stood behind him on the left hand side Constance A. E. Griffiths. practically in the dark. Donegall took each plate out And herewith enclosed was my own slide, which he had of its slide and handed it to Folkard for development, stoutly declared he knew nothing at all about ! § at the same time handing the emptied slide to me. S i The substituted slide is impressed with the word DONEGALL SUBSTITUTES A SLIDE. " Cameo.” It is a make I have never even heard of § During this procedure I noticed some unexplained before. I took it to the Westminster Photographic fumbling or shuffling sounds coming from Donegall’s Exchange, Ltd., from whom I bought my camera, and p i direction, but I made no remark until I found that one they certify :— of the slides put into my hand was not mine. This was “ This quarter-plate Cameo slide marked No. 3 ■ immediately after his Lordship had mysteriously left does not fit Mr. Myers’ camera. It is not a correct K the dark room for a moment to visit his motor-car, and slide, and was not supplied by us for this camera.” i < I think he must have been flustered. I opened the » 6 slide and a small piece of filmy yellow paper fell out. I then SOME SALIENT POINTS TO REMEMBER. ¡ B i p said, " I shall have something to say in a few moments.” The developing was continued to its completion, and We have given above in detail particulars > & of the accusations made against Myers’ honesty .spirit four of the six plates were found to have “ extras ” * the while two had none. as a man and his genuineness as a medium. As soon as I got out of the dark room, I went to the We have also reported Myers’ account of the drawing-room where Swaffer and Goldston were waiting, and waving the substituted slide in front of them I cried, D is p a tc h ’ s experiments as he narrated them ,l0u8ht ” They’ve got me ! Just look at this slide ; it is. not to ourselves in an interview. ^ cai mine ; it is not even numbered ; and Donegall handed It seems to us that little comment is necessary, but )le for it to me in mistake for one of my own.” we would stress the following facts which should be kept 0 this Swaffer, after looking at it, said, [' This is not one clearly in mind :— ^•^9iîUg of the slides we used in the seance room ; it is of a (1) It should be remembered that the ” half-tone screen Cutely different make altogether, and it is not even numbered.” effect,” alleged to be found on two faces in a spirit-extra, body Donegall at that moment came into the room, and refer to a plate taken at the " test ” seance on October 3, world. I instantly accused him. I shouted angrily, “ This slide when, according to Donegall himself, " Mr. Myers never 1 their is not mine ; I have never seen it in my life before. tampered with either slides or camera.” about Somebody in that dark room has changed my slide ; (2) It was onlyYrn October 16 that Donegall announced what is your game ? what are you up to ? ” that on this plate " both j spirits [ showed evidence of a iks to Instead of answering me, Donegall and Folkard went out of the room, and in a few moments they returned half-tone screen on their faces as clear as crystal.” . gave and said to Swaffer and Goldston, “ The game is up ! (3) At this date, October 16— thirteen days after the mcing We have found out Myers substituting plates in the event— he alleges that when he (Donegall) was loading tubers dark room.” Thereupon I flew in a rage at Donegall. the slides (at the § test ” seance) each He had the plates in his hand and was about to put them “ The third plate stuck, and I could not get it into in his pocket, and I made a grab at them, shouting the slide. Myers took it from me and I NOW KNOW angrily, ” How dare ypu accuse me of swapping plates ! ” I snatched the plates out of his hand and that he changed my marked plate for one of his own.” ce of said, " You will not take these plates out of this house.” He does not say how he “ now knows ” that Myers Ubert There was a brief struggle between us for possession of substituted one of his own plates for one of the “ test ” mtrt the plates, during which I smashed them on the floor. plates, which were all duly numbered and carefully But it is not true to say that I assaulted him. Indeed, checked at the time of the experiment and found in t new I see he himself only says that I “ attempted ” to do so. perfect order. (4) Seven days later, on October 23, Donegall increases i and “ SUBSTITUTING PLATES ” CHARGE. arffly his emphasis about this wonderful new knowledge of his, Swaffer thereupon said to Donegall and Folkard, and says :— " What do you mean by saying that Myers has substituted ,tabk plates ? ” and Donegall replied that they had two packets 1 1 am prepared to go into a Court of Law and swear 1 afld differently marked ; and they had not used the ones that I ACTUALLY SAW Myers change these plates.” rjoU®' Myers thought they had. Of course, he gives no guarantee that any Judge or Jury 6 by Now how could I think of any other plates than what or even private citizen would believe him. if they had all mb^ they had in the packet they had produced ? I knew the facts before them. The Editor of the Dispatch backs of no second packet. up his Lordship by saying that Donegall ** caught Myers Swaffer said to them, " It is not a very nice thing gfià red-handed substituting plates of his own.” It is strange for you to do, to bring two packets into the seance room, if Myers was “ caught red-handed ” on October 3, neither when we all thought there was only one.” he nor anyone else said anything about it until m October 23 ! aft DONEGALL DENIES HIS SUBSTITUTION. I then demanded the return of my slide which they (5) It appears clear that there certainly was a sub stitution of plates effected by Donegall himself with the . had kept in place of the substituted one handed me s of an entirely different make. Lord Donegall denied that help of his additional box of plates, about which he has he had substituted the slide and said the one which now little to say, but which were obviously taken to the was obviously not mine, and would not even fit my dark room for the express purpose of foisting a charge I iloi camera, was mine ! He refused to give me back my of substitution on John Myers. own, and thereafter the three Dispatch men walked out, (6) It is also clear that Donegall in the course of M the experiment substituted a slide for some purpose Sm picking up some of the fragments of the smashed plates as they left. known only to himself. It is obvious that he did this 0 blunderingly, or he would not have denied doing so « I KNOW NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT IT I ” And it is worth noting that he did not own up to this An hour after this happened I rang up the Daily Mail trick of his until Myers had told him on the telephone office on the telephone and asked for Donegall. When that he held in his hands the evidence of his guilt. he spoke I said, “ Donegall, you have got to be very (7) This whole case appears to us to be only one more hank with me.” lie cut in with, ” 1 have no time to instance out of many when the tricks alleged have not talk to you ; I am busy." I said, “ just one moment, been performed by the mediums at all, but by the vunmu* Donegal]; you have left your finger-prints behind in conspirators, some of whom for ” religious ” reasons think the slide which does not belong to me, and 1 want the it their duty to blast the fair fame of any honest medium return of my own slide which you took out of my house.” in the supposed interests of then holy Mother Chuivh ! lie replied, *' i know nothing at all about it,” and rang off. T i 30 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE November, 1932 Twenty Years After” : Things Worth Recalling. EXTRACTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE OF N OVEM BER, 1912. MIRACULOUS CURE OF DOROTHY KERIN. Am ethyst is the most spiritual colour, indicating Miss Dorothy Kerin, whose miraculous cure in February spirituality, meekness, serenity, consecration and excited so much attention, was present at a Drawing sublimity. Room Tea at the International Club. It was recalled White is made up of all the other colours and stand« that as she lay apparently dying she had a wonderful for perfection on the highest planes, wholeness, radiance, vision in which a voice informed her that her sufferings harmony, completeness.— " The Mysticism of Colour,” were at an end. by Finetta Bruce. Miss Kerin answered questions and said the angel K 1 S she saw was that of a most beautiful man with a halo. Mr. Ernest Meads said he could give his testimony EFFO RTS FOR A GARDEN CITY CHURCH. that everything Miss Kerin had said was entirely in IELW YN Garden City Spiritualists are harmony with what he had found in Spiritualism in W | aiming to build a church of their own and twenty years, and he advised her never to listen to any sophistry or plausible tongue that would try to persuade for this purpose held an autumn fair her to water down her story. which proved highly successful. Mrs. Minnie Lines, of Kensington, opened the DR. WALLACE AND FRAUD HUNTERS. proceedings by describing a beautiful vision of the Church Dr. Abraham Wallace announced that he had resigned which was to be. Mr. A. O. Larke, President, extended his position on the Council of the Society for Psychical a welcome to the members of the affiliated churches who Research because he found that they had adopted the had turned up in good numbers to support the effort; role rather of persistent fraud hunters than really capable Mrs. Scott, Watford, as President of the Hertfordshire investigators. Association of Spiritualist Churches, spoke concerning its THE DIFFICULTY OF GETTING MESSAGES aims and objects ; and Mr. E. Shurly, St. Albans, as its Secretary and Founder emphasised that Hertfordshire THROUGH. was leading the way in promoting unity and brotherhood “ When I see now for myself the extraordinary which would later extend all over the Country. The difficulties in getting messages through from this side spirit world, he said, was deeply interested in Union, and I marvel not that we got so little in our searchings when the late John Wesley was the moving spirit. Miss Clark, I was with you, but that we got as much as we did.”— President of Letchworth National Spiritualist Church, One of the first messages Mr. W . T. Stead sent to the Stead was pleased to associate her Church with the work that Bureau, after his passing. afternoon. An excellent musical programme was given ; A STEAD MEMORIAL. there were the usual stalls and side shows, and three “ That good man Stead,” as Thomas Carlyle truly mediums gave clairvoyant readings. Results exceeded and tersely described him, ought to be kept in grateful highest expectations, the takings exceeding £30, or double memory, not merely in the hearts of men and women those of last year. who in all parts of the world admired and loved him, A New Spiritualist Society has just been opened in but by a continuation of the great work he carried on, Alexandra Road, Kingston Hill, Mr. Ernest Meads often amid much scorn and unbelief, of proving beyond giving the first address to a crowded audience. all doubt that “ there is no death ; what seems so is Note to R e a d e rs.— Owing to a pressure on our space transition.” It was truly a great work he accomplished for the enlightenment and happiness of the human family, through lengthy articles and increase of advertisements we have been compelled to hold over the second pan and now that his mortal body is buried in deepest seas of Mr. de Beaurepaire’s fine article on “ The Inner Side Julia’s Bureau ought assuredly to be maintained as a of a Medium’s Life ” till next month, and to displace fitting and grateful memorial.— An appeal in this our usual Editorial, which will, however, be found connection from his daughter, Miss Estelle Stead, was embodied in the three pages dealing Avith the Sundry appended. Dispatch’s effort to discredit Mr. John Mvers as a genuine WHO WAS JULIA ? and honest medium.— E d ., I.P.G. Who was Julia ? She was an American lady, a friend of Mr. Stead, herself a journalist, and remarkable, like most American ladies, for great level-headedness and LIFE’S MIRROR. I commonsense. She worked ardently in the cause of temperance reform and was one of the editors of a paper There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, devoted to social service. She was not a Spiritualist, There are souls that are good and true ; but she was by nature a deeply religious woman. Then give to others the best you have Only a year ago I heard Mr. Stead say to someone who asked him what he considered to have been the And the best will come back to you. most fortunate moment of his life, '■ The most fortunate Give love, and love to your life will flow, moment of my life was, of course, the moment when A strength in your inmost need ; Julia (after her passing) first discovered she could write with my hand.” Have faith and other hearts will show It was in 1.908 she wrote, ” The time has at last come Their faith in your word and deed. when you have got to establish the Bureau.” Mr. Stead Give truth, and your gifts will be paid in kind. said, " Impossible, Julia 1 Even if I had the time I have And honour will honour meet ; not the money, it could not be done under a thousand pounds a year.” Julia wrote, ” You will get the thousand And a kindly smile will surely find pounds, you will hear of it before Xmas, and it will come A smile that is just as sweet. from America, and you will see that it will all come true Give a helping hand to those in need. just as I have said.” Julia’s prophecy was completely fulfilled, and the Bureau came into being on April 24, And a harvest of golden grain ; 1901.— Miss Edith H arper. You’ll reap some day from the love-sown seed IT IS TRUE. If you sowed in the Master s name. “ It is true—and 1 have repeatedly said it -that For life is the mirror of king and slave, I hold communion with the spirit of my wife.”—Dr. Tis’ just what we are and do ; Joseph Parker. Then give to others the best you have. “ My holy mother-—I often talk to her now, and 1 am sure she hears me ; she answers me in whispers and And the best will coma back to you. spreads over my soul a great calm.”— Cardinal Vaughan. EDGAR GUEST Quotations from " The Life which is Life Indeed, * by ^ IB jfj L V H. Witley OUR READERS* TESTIMONIES. MYSTICISM OF COLOUR. 4 (fhichester Header ” 1 fiave n al the bat>ai ftoa* Red stands for all that is lively or full of life, cheerful its first number, amt it is still tfie bast of itt, ness, merriment, vigour, strength, passion; the rose shade of it means love, tenderness, sympathy• ICLU CM BCiCiU *uUiM# Diange stauds fur health on all planes ; yellow expresses A t «MMUtaa Ptuas* iiiici 1 cjvg 4 dulkn tor i«a«»d *uK* „ Blue stands for truth, emhtaving scteme art, musiv uaiMM Wt M l it twwd BwovIk « *1 • faithiulucaw, constanty, ichncmcut November* 1932 THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIC GAZETTE 31
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