The fool-killer., 1919-10-01
A SERMON
ON BOOGERS

ON BOOGERS|
It seems that DR.. Arthur Con-
an Doyle, the inventor of Sher-
lock Holmes, has lately turned
out to be terrible ranting, rip
snorting, red-eyed, ring-tailed
advocate of Spiritualism. have
| before me some newspaper clip
pings in which is given about
three smells worth of Doctor
Doyle's spooky splutterings, and
! have never seen such capers
cut since the old cow had the
loller-horn.
This Mister Honorable Sir Doc
tor Doyle has recently writ
book called 'The New Revela-
ton" in which he tells about his
conversion to spookism and
gives a whole string of instances
where mediums have called up
dead people at so much per call
and allowed them to ask their
living friends for chaw of ter
hacker.
A London dispatch to the
Greensboro News says that
mothers, fathers, wives, and
ether relatives of the dead wrote
to Doyle for advice, and his an
s'Wer was:
Here is the medium; it will
cost you half a guinea it may be
worth your while to come, and
you may get something; if you
do, let me know"
And the report goes on to say
that the medium was pretty
successful in calling up the
spooks at first, but after awhile
she got sorter over-worked and
didn't do so we'll. Or it might
have been the spooks had de-
veloped a case of the studs and
/ refused to answer. Anyway,
one days spook-hunting result
ed in 36 successes and Al fail
ures.
) Now they tell us that the
spook-hunting is a divine busi.
, ness-that Gods hand is in il
. and Gods power back of it, ant
2 yet they acknowledge to NOR
than SO per cent of failures. Nov
is anybody fool enough to believ,
/. tnat God makes failures L
) God wanted the spirits Of the
dead to appear and talk with thu
,, living, do you think that Goo
would have to run the spirits
F. through an old sin-soaked "me
cium" hid in dark room, anc
: even then fall down on the jot
, more than half the time? That
/, would be a mighty unreliable
l sort. of a God if he couldn't de
t any better than that. The ides
e that God or Gods agencies
! would get tired or over-workee
and have to throw up the job
: That does not sound a bit like
-, the work of an All-Powerful Be
). ing to me.
And the mediums have to b.
, PAID, Oh, yes! There il
9 where the green flies have blow
e ed the thing. They are out TO,
e the money, and their motto, is
mo money, no spooks."
. But what can the spirits tel
y about the place where they ar
u now located? Just listen to tn
It crazy nonsense:
IL "They said their world was yer
e much like the world we are now il
1t was so like it that many peopl
IL could not be persuaded that the
were dead. They said it was a yer
beautiful habitation, and their pres
tnt life was exalted, beautified an
ir extraordinarily happy. They had
- busy life. They talked about artist
III literary, dramatic and musical facu
h ties. About God they knew no MOI
than we did. When they talke
ie about Christ they talked with gre;
reverence and with some knowledg
They looked upon Christ as the hlgl
est spirit with which they We
brought in contact"
al Geewhillikins!
We If that amt the limit!
The spirit world is so muc
like this world that many des
81 people cannot be convinced tn;
H. they are dead.
Mt I reckon not.
ill You can't convince a dead ho'
M that he is dead, either.
~ ~ A busy life-I should sa,
Gu And literature, music and dram
et j just want you to hush,
'r- Tom Watts says.
But they don't know anythil