Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06

InoSt hiu ceased to ponder on the prob
lem of what lies beyond the grave.
almost had ceased to fear the conse-
quences of unrighteousness in this life,
almost had ceased to yearn for any
thing beyond this world" said Prof
James A. Hyslop. Americas most cele-
brated investigator of psychical phe-
nomena and organizer and principal
force in the American Society for
Psychical Research.
1T has given to psychical research a
new impulse, surely providing stimu-
lated urge for investigation Of those in
Vulnerable phenomena which point the
way toward roads at present quite I'M
trodden because the ways and means
have not been ready for equipment Of
the expeditions which. sooner or later,
and the sooner the better for the well
fare of the world. must explore them
inch by inch.
"The war really has changed the
actual situation none at all 1t has pro-
duced the same effect in individual
families that death of loved ones al
ways has produced. To some extent
the difference is in the manner Of
bereavement. for drama always makes
discussion. but principally it is in the
number of bereaved.
The world never at one time has
held so many aching. yearning hearts.
~ hope-indeed confidently believe
that out of this will come that impulse
which will provide means whereby this
most important of all subjects may have
as generously endowed and systematic
scientific attention as. in the past. fire.
quently has been arranged with regard
to matters of very minor import to
humanity.
THE sufferers whom death makes are
those left behind upon this plane. not
those taken from it. Comparatively
few people fear death acutely; most
people feel grief acutely. The war UNI
precedentedly has multiplied the num-
Der Of simultaneous instances of grief
feeling
l asked Prof. Hyslop. from his emil
hence as a student Of phenomena in
dicative of life beyond the grave. to
send message to the sorrowing
mothers of the world.
II am afraid" said he. that I am
almost too scientific to send a message
to bereaved womanhood or to Borrowing
motherhood and wifehood which will
carry as great comfort as that which
might be voiced by a sentimentalist.
But without hesitation declare to every
oman who has lost loved one through
the war:
you may be sure your loved one has
not been annihilated that he has suffer-
ed no real deprivation through the
change which his unseltish service i'm
posed upon him.
Lost? Inevitably he has gained!
One always gains through the perform
ance of unselfish service. No man can
get salvation in any other way.
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1.-The belief that man can achieve
spiritual growth only upon this plane
is to me, an obvious absurdity
Spiritual growth occurs and salvation
may be achieved as easily in the next
world as in this, and probably more
easily.
Those So called poor, dead boys
are no more Qoau tIl1hh Sou VI ~ VI
any Of their grieving relatives. They
are going straight along in their de-
velopment. although l do not know in
just what form.
There are those who claim that
there is little difference save that OF
a considerable advance. between the
next world. to which these splendid
boys have passed. and this. which
they have left. Others believe that
that world Is more purely mental
than the material world we know.
But the point is that these brave
lads. all of them. not merely the very
best of them. have passed on to some
thing better, and l believe that this
Is quite as certain of the drafted or
compelled soldier as of the volunteer.
whose very soul demanded instantly
that he offer up himself in sacrifice
upon the altar of the right
MEN can change quickly. as by
that process which frequently pre-
cedes the joining of church. No
less instantaneous Is the soul change
which produces Willingness to give
ones life for right In war. boy.
unwilling to enlist at first, and, later.