Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-05-09
VOICE FROM DEAD
TELLS OF SCENES
AT SEA DISASTER

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Mrs. Cora l.. v. Richmond. pastor of
the church OF the Soul N am intimate
friend of the London journalist. am
the message. which h will
read to members of the church.
Included in the remarkable document
la a dramatic statement of the happen
ings on the night the great liner went
down. the meeting between Mr.. Stead
and his dead son-the son for whom
he embraced spiritualism-and M
argument in favor of faith and super
natural.
In Sympathy With Stead.
Mrs. Richmond is we'll NOW among
students of psychic research in Chicago
and his addressed some of the most
important religious organization i'm the
city. She explains the fact that she
a been selected by Mr.. Stead to re-
ceive his message from the grave ON
the ground that she was i'm perfect
sympathy with him and a close friend
while both We're working i'm the inter-
est of universal peace just before he
establishment of the Hague peace court.
n message. as II will be read by
Mrs. Richmond, reads as follows:
There is no death. One can only
know 1t by experience. Most people
hesitate. dread the change. To me life
was one-our earth and beyond. A
.~prem0nition, a warming word written
by my son through my W hand. made
1t known to me that the ship would go
down just as soon AS it struck the berg.
Welcomed To Life ee~ond.
II was ready. Many We're over
there first, at hand to receive me. But
what of them who We're afraid of death.
VIII" knew not of the life beyond and
whose faith might forsake them in
the time of peril?
."rhey must be comforted. soothed.
their bodies. And one forgets ones
self when ministering to the wants of
others. Still, there was such n brief
time to prepare-so little real prepara-
ton on that gigantic ship for such AN
emergency. Commander, officers and
create .lifeboats.
When all had beer done that could
be done, we had to go. The cries of
agony We're terrible. Death.
And. after the first roar-rush Of
waters-a great surging. suffocating
sense-I awoke as one awakening from
a horrible dream. My son? My son.!
Yes. the first to meet me. He was one
OF the rescuers from that realm where
lifeboats are never lacking. was
alive! Awake. Alvarez! They had
found me!
Distress in Spirit Realm.
But these. these who had not
known? Those who chung to their
bodies: who still in spirit followed the
frall boats on the ocean that held their
loved ones? Oh. the wrench of having
to be severed from them: These had
to be colnforted, those who had been
thrust out in un~preparedness. unwill-
ing, in the realm of the spirits.
w must help them. The great rail-
lying cry is ever to help others. No
life goes out into the higher world that
some one. or more. is not there at
die unattended and forsaken on earth.
but none enter the realm beyond un-
welcomed.
And l was welcomed. 1t seemed as
a morning of s%plendor after the night
of earth-as wings compared to crop
ing-as bloom and fruition after the
bud of silence and darkness. Who can
properly describe the indescribable?
ITO be welcomed and loved. to think
first and all the while of those who
miss n and mourn for one, to try to
reach them with the invisible, impal-
pable menage of the spirit, to think
and to know in one instant the an
swer to A lifetime of questions
Cites Cause for Disaster.
Not vet, not yet. II Il hand or brain
can be found to Onvey the meaning
and scope of this new life / may use
1t after a while. ] am grateful for
this opportunity to pay my tribute to
my fellow voyagers and to the officers
of the ship that went down, and to saw
there can be but two causes for the
sinking of the ship and the passing ont
of SO many valiant lives. Overconfi-
dence III the ships strength and an in
sufficient number OF lifeboats-these
are the causes.
When human life is really valued
there always will b. adequate means of
insuring safety. Oh. the rescuers of
the heavenly realm! These. these were
Gods own messengers, helping. saw
ing-saving all.
ut is fear Of death that is the ter
ror I annot speak. 1 am no orator.
A pen was my BEST method of expres.
sion. but my word is to all those who
expect to hear from me and all others,
j am not dead n my interest and
work will still be the welfare of hui
mainly.
Nor birth. nor life. nor death can
change or mar II soul on ministry of
good intent"