Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-20
THERE IS No DEATH.
SAYS CONAN DOYLE.
FAMOUS BRITISH WRITER GOES
IN STRONGLY FOR HIS SPIRIT
uALlSTlC IDEAS.
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TBS International News SeryiceJ
London, Nov. 2o.-The following re-
markable interview appeared in re
cent issue of the London Evening
News
On the day tina. Sir Arthur Conan
Doyles young and brilliant son died
in 81 Thomas Hospital Sir Arthur
himself was speaking IN the country
I'm spiritualism and the theme thaI
there is no death, but only q passlA7
beyond a veil.
II was on this theme that SIR Ar
tbur was interviewed. He was re-
urtant to talk about ii because, ne
said. sad experience had taught him
that it was not easy to get the subject
discussed with reverence; and II IS,
he added. one that must be discussed
with reverence when men are dying
in battle and the hearts OF their sur
yivors are pining for some revelation
mar the link is not broken.
aWe have that revelation said Sir
Arthur. 4 have been on this quest
for thirty years and | say that We
have the revelation and We mus
carry 1t throughout the country as the
new religion.
I'll is the greatest revelation Tor
two thousand years. Religion has
hopelessly broken down mean by
that formal religion Lutheranism
has given lis these Prussian devils on
tine one hand and on the other Roman
Catholicism has given us the Baya
rian.
1T may fairly be asked by the
formal religionists Yes, but II a man
throws aside his religion and becomes
devil. what them? | say that 1t Is
the religion which must take up the
man. not the man the religion. 1t
must so seize him that he is unable
to throw il aside and act deyllishiy
belt with the motto Colt nit uns
imagines he has something there, and
there is nothing
I'VE must add to religi0n--we must
add something now that the war has
shown us the breakdown OF torma
religion, when millions Of men ana
women are looking as they never
have done before for a sign and a
consolation
Some time ago said knew o.
thirteen mothers 1900 thirteen - VINO
were receiving direct messages from
sons W. had passed way. D0ub,
was eX. gentle doubt-by q
newspaper hich asked VINO are
the mothera What are their names?
Well. | know thirty mothers now who
are receiving these messages.
Il have had a letter from British
corps commander who lost his son. as
suring me that they are in communi'
cation. Here you have warrior a
responsible, hard-6ghung. leyelhead-
ed British soldier-not the long-haired
visionary the caricature, who stands
in the mind of fippant, uniformed
people as the type of spiritualist.
i have addressed many meetings
in the country, and ! am addressing
more, and We shall have the Albert
Hall for London audiences later on
1t might be as well for me TO say, IT,
passing, that take no fees and make
no money profit out Of these meet
ings
4 find the most intense earnest
ness everywhere among the au
diences. and at Nottingham, Tor in
stance, more people were outside the
han. unable to lind room than were
inside. 10 me the New Revelation is
beyond question My book under that
title has been published only a few
months, yet this new religion has
made great bounds forward And We
shall bring the proof to millions OF
people"
There was a persona matter, Of his
own son, who had died Sir Arthur
said he was informed Of it as he WAS
going to his Nottingham meeting. |,
was IL severe trial and test,
The relation between belief and the
particular personal loss could not be
discussed But Sir Arthur, speaking
a this hour, did say, for the comfort
of others a mother, a father. firm in
the new revelation knows that the
one who departed is no farther away
than YOU who sit in chair yard
away.
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