The sun., 1899-05-01
MESSAGES FROM BEYOND.
Another Clergyman Who Suspects That tn
Spiritualis,s Have Got Hold of the Truth.

Another Clergyman Who Suspects That tho
Spiritualis's Have Got Hold of the Truth.
At All Souls Episcopal Church yesterday
morning the Rev. Heber Newton preached on
the subject OF communication With the unseen
spiritual world. All Of the worlds great move-
ments. he said. had been begun by persons
who acted under the inspiration Of spiritual
communications. and he cited tho visions OF
st. Paul. tho voices OF Joan OF Arc and the
mysterious gudances Of Mohammed. II these
things happened In the past. he said. why not
In this century.
MY own mother" said DR.. Newton, had
curious experience when a young girl. She
went South with an invalid brother, who grew
rapidly worse after they had arrived at their
destination II was soon borne in upoh her
that he was about to die. Far from home. with
dying brother in her charge. she was over
whelmed with care and grief. and ono day
wandered into the garden to give way to her
tears unseen. AS she seated herself under
tree a bit OF paper blown by tho wind rustled
to her feet. Il was scrap from a Philadel-
phia newspaper. and seeing the name OF the
city on 1t she picked 1t up. That slip Of paper
contained poem OF consolation which was
balm to her soul. Was that accident. chance2
Doubtless. IL 1t stood alone..we should SO term
People say that there is no scientific rroof
OF communication between this world and the
other. How should there have been thus far?
The possibility OF scientific Investigation has
come only with the recent advance of science.
Already the great minds Of science re-
Douncing tho attitude. Of skepticsm toward
this great question. IL is objected. too. that
the conditions of spiritual communication are
hard. oven harsh. People ask why we must
sock help to communicate with the loved
ones who have passed away. That Is one OF
the questions we cannot yet understand: but
let us no: dogmaticaly' cast out this belief
simply because there are some features OF IL
that are hard Of comprehension. To some
minds nothing more puerile than spirit rap
pings can be imagined. Yet in my studies in
crimnology | found that prisoners immured
in their solitary cells communicated by Just
such rapnings. That may suggest a thought.
All the movement OF communication between
mind and mind ie from the material toward
the iess material First. We have aboriginal
man talking to his fellow with great gesticuia-
tion and sign language. Then comes writing:
so that friends when far apart may communl-
cate. Next comes the wonderful telegraph
and telephone. Who can say that telepathy-
mind speaking to mind without eXtraneous
Sweden borg says that the angels do not speak
that with them thought Is enough. When the
angels wish to commun cate with us, then.
would It not be without speech?
As men grow in knowledge. the increase OF
SCOPE OF the human mind prepares the way for
the possibility Of such communication by in
creasing our receptyty. l could tell you OF
many eminent thinkers to-day who believe
implicitly that they receive communications
creasing consciousness among great minds OF
the truth which. aside from uncanny and dis
respectable surroundings and alleged inter-
pretationS, .underlies this great question"