The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-22
NO HAOES' SAYS DOYLE
DISCIPLINARY INNENTlON."SHER'
LOCK HOLMES" BELIEVES.
Famous Detective Story Author After
Thirty Years' Study Of Spiritualistic
Phenomena Satisfies Himself rs TO
state After Death.

New York sun: Sherlock Holmes has
gone In for splritualism and has se1ected
hell as "a coarse invention which may
have been OF Use ages ago IN frlghten
ing men 10 good behavior, but which
now IL dropped from the thoughts OF
reasonable men.
Sir a. Conan Doyle has confessed his
faith in spirit life, and has written FOR
the current issue of the Metropolitan
Magazine his conception of the new life
which the released spirits of men take
on after a brief and restful sleep. The
author of the worlds most popular de-
tective stories has been studying spir'
itualistic phenomena for thirty years,
and he embodies in THE New Revela-
tion" the interesting conclusions as 10
the hereafter that he has formed.
The passing of the spirit lie believes
from the testimony of the departed
themselves, to be easy and painless and
to be followed by an enormous reaction
OF peace and ease. Sir Conan continues:
"rhe individual finds himself in
spirit body. which is the exact coun-
terpart of his old one. save that all dis
ease. weakness or deformity has passed
from IT, This body is standing or float
ing beside the old body, and conscious
both OF II and of the surrounding people.
At this moment the dead man Is nearer
to matter than he will ever be again.
and hence IL Is that at that moment
the greater part of those cases occur
where. his thoughts having turned to
some one in the distance, the spirit body
went with the thoughts and was mani
fest Ia ,sc perscn.
"Out of enmc 80 cases carefully ex
amincd by Mr.. Gurnev | think that l3l
of such ap7aritions were actually at
this moment of dissolution, when one
could imagine that the new spirit body
was possibly so far material as to he
more visible to "A sympathetic human
eve than it would later become.
These cases, however are very rare
in comparison with the total number of
deaths. In most cases | imagine that
the dead man is much too preoccupied
with his own amazing experience 10
have much thought for others. lie
soon finds. to his surprise, that though
he endeaVors to communicate with those
whom ne sees. his ethereal voice and
his ethereal touch are equally unable |
to make any impression upon those !
human organs which are only attuned |
to coarser stimuli.
Setting that aside however. let US
follow the fortunes Of the departing |
spirit. He is presently aware that there |
are others in the room besides those |
who were there in life, and among |
these Others. who seem to him as sub |
stantial as the living, there appear ia |
miliar faces, and he finds his hands |
grasped or his lips kissed by those
whom he had loved and lost. Then in !
their company and with the help and |
guidance of some more radiant being !
who has stood by and waited for the !
newcomer. he passes to his own sur |
urise through all solid obstacles and
out upon his new life.
"And now before entering upon his \
new life, the new spirit has period OF
sleep which varies i'm it's length, some |
times hardly existing at all, at others |
for weeks or months. Ray |
mond said that his lasted for six days |
That was the period also in a case sin |
which | had some personal evidence |
Mr.. Meyers, on the other hand. said that |
he had very prolonged period of un-
| could imagine that the |
length is regulated by the amount of
trouble or mental preoccupation of his |
life. the longer rest giving the better
means Of wiping this out.
Having awakened from his sleep, the
spirit is weak as the child is weak.
after earth birth Soon. however.
strength returns and the new life be-
gins. This seems To be the point where
we may discuss heaven and hell. Hell,
may say. drops out altogether, as it
las long dropped out of the thoughts
# every reasonable man This odious
so blasphemous in it's view
If the Creator. arose from the eXag-
of Oriental phrases. and may =
have been of service in "a
,oarse age where men were frightened
" fires, as wild beasts are scared by
he travellers"
The writer then turns to his opinion
# hades as a discredited institution,
md maintains that punishment does
rot consist of gross bodily pain. but in
ne fact that the grossest souls are kept
n lower spheres with knowledge that
heir own deeds nave placed them there.
ut also with the hope that expiation
nd the help Of those above them will
ducate them and bring them level with
he others.