The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-02
VOICE FROM DEAD
TELLS OF SCENES
AT SEA DISASTER

Chicago. April S0.-A message direct
from the grave. voiced by w. T. Stead.
editor. and firm believer in spiritualism,
who lost his life on the Titanic. is de-
clared to have been received In Chi
cago.
Mrs. Cora L. v. Richmond. pastor Of
the Church Of the Soul and an intimate
friend OF the London journalist. an
nounced the message. which she will
read to members Of the church.
Included In the remarkable document
Is 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 SOL for whom
he embraced spiritualism-and an
argument in favor Of faith and super
natural.
In Sympathy With Stead.
Mrs. Richmond Is well known among
students Of psychic research in Chicago
and his addressed some Of the most
important religious organization In the
city. She explains the fact that she
has been selected by Mr.. Stead to re-
ceive his message from the grave on
the ground that she was In perfect
sympathy with him and a close friend
while both were working in the inter-
est of universal peace Just before the
establishment of the Hague peace court.
The message. as 1t 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
premonition, a warning word written
hX NV son fhrnYoh NV nwn hand mazda
It known to me that the ship would go
down just as soon as it struck the berg.
Welcomed To Life Bevond.
Il was ready. Many were over
there first, at hand to receive me. But
of them who were afraid of death,
who knew not of the life beyond and
whose faith might forsake them in
the time Of peril?
They must be comforted, soothed,
aided, II possible to stay yet awhile in
their bodies. And one forgets ones
self when ministering to the wants Of
others. Still, there was such a brief
time to prepare-so little real prepara-
ton on that gigantic ship for such an
emergency. Commander, officers and
crew did their best, but they could not
create lifeboats.
when all had been done that could
be done, we had to go. The cries of
agony were terrible. Death.
And. after the first roar-rush of
waters-a great surging, suffocating
sense-1 awoke as n 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. l was
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
trail boats on the ocean that held their
loved ones? Oh. the wrench of having
to be severed from them; These had
to be comforted. those who had been
thrust out in unpreparedness. unwill-
Ing. In the realm of the spirits.
w 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
hand to meet n greet that one. Many
die unattended and forsaken on earth,
but none enter the realm beyond un-
welcomed.
And I was welcomed. 1t seemed as
a morning Of splendor after the night
OF earth-as wings compared to CROP
ing-as bloom and f~ruition 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 one 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.
mot yet, not yet. If a hand or brain
can be found to convey the meaning
n scope of this new life l may use
1t after a while. 1 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 out
Of SO many valiant lives. Overconf-
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 be adequate means OF
insuring safety. Oh, the rescuers of
the heavenly realm! These, these were
Gods own messengers, helping, saw
.ing-saving all.
at is fear Of death tina Is the ter
ror / cannot speak. l am no orator.
A pen was my best method Of express
sion. but my word is to all those who
expect to hear from me and all Others.
/ am not lead n my interest and
work will still be the welfare of hui
mainly.
Nor birth, nor life, nor death can
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