The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-16
What Is Death?-Can We
Overcome It?
Brand-New Answer to This World-Old Question Is
Written for the July Cosmopolitan by the
Great Novelist, Basil King.

tchapter of ST. Johns gospel and read it through.
It is of the greatest chapters of the Bible.
If man lives by it, he will not have much to fear of
the future
There is one verse in the chapter which is the summary
Of topic that is today receiving wider attention and deeper
"tudy than ever before.
Jesus had come down from the Mount of Olives and
was teaching in the temple The climax of his lesson
in the statement found in the fifty first verse:
Verify perly say yOu if man keep my
Here definite statement that it is possible to
come death.
It is this question that is coming to be discussed
widely every day not only by regOnis but by scientists
students literary men, and investigators of every SORT
Of all that is being written nothing has recently been
printed that approaches in interest and evidence convc
ton article from the pen of the novelist Basil King,
which appears in the July number Of the Cosmopolitan
Magazine.
This author known chiefly for the excellence of his
fiction turns serious pen to the discussion of The Abol
ishing of Death"
he approaches his subject with simplicity of thought
and veneaon for beliefs that compel the reader follow
his reasoning and consider his evidence.
In his opening paragraphs he says:
When, o. Cosmopolitan kindly
asked series Of articles attitude which
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corruption going through
to the average mind ' - - - 'N'''' 0
Mr. King wrote series of articles but when they were
about to be published he word to the editors of the
Cosmopolitan asking that he be allowed withdraw them
and write another series based upon evidences lately dis
covered and beliefs lately established
These new evidences and these later beliefs make ND
the most of the remarkable article that is published this
month
We quote some of the statements which his strange
series of Investigations led him to write:
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harder and harder to credit especially when the windows
sho:: call p.shanIosI blessings: spiritual
the gifts Of LIE &c " '"''F'"'s !" essence since all were
Mr. King declares that he is not and never has been
erested psychic phenomena which involved the moving
Of furniture the making of noises the telling fortunes
and the other clap-trap Of fake mediums
He did however, become acquainted with young girl
not professional medium for she had acted as
NIL Mig suggested Sne might make
herself the channel for communication from those who
passed out of this life and he expresses it, were living
on another plane"
From the point where he puts pencil into the hands
of the girl until the end of the article there is train of
happenings Of extraordinary interest
The messages could scarcely have been the invention
Of the girl
Mr. King abolshes the theory of teepathy by saying
that he had had thoughts similar those which were
written before his eyes
It is a wonderful theory of religion which those mes
sages outline theory, however that neither difficult
understand hard to believe for along with the state
mers which were written supporting logic which
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