The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
Are the Dead Alive?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in Leslie's S.
 There was Q time in my life when l believed that death ended all. Finally after long study extending over many years ! came to the conclusion that the more advanced psychical students were right, and that after making every de- duction for fraud or self-deusion there was no question at all as to the validity of the evidence which pointed to a future world so near to our own that the vel could be torn or lifted.
 Too much attention has been directed to the telephone bell, and not enough 10 the telephone message, which is a new revelation from beyond, and which has practically done away with death!
 It is the greatest message of joy which our race has had for 2000 years.
 Israel Zangwillin Leslie's.
 After Death-What? The question is the answer, and it is this very uncertainty that makes the splendor and glory of sac rifice when life is staked upon a noble issue. To hold out positive assurance of immortality for the fighter is to place him upon the rlane of the semi-savage Mohammed and who deems death in bat tie the sure door to 0 harem of houris.
 GaTibaldi, in his famous appeal for vol unteers offered not pay nor loot, but wounds and death. It but lowers the stake to regard it as cnly counter Moreover the question of immortality is irrelevant, and, as l have written elsewhere of the monstrous calamity that Germany brought upon the world, ITO suppose that this tragic kutchery could be corcumvented by immortality would be to deprive death of it's reality, heroism of it's substance and war mailers of their guilt
 Dr Harvey w. Wiley. in Leslies.
 I inherited a strong belief in immor- tality l am not anxious to die, but if do die, as I shall, I still hope I shall meet my father and mother in the great be- yond There is however, real immor- taIity for him who dies in the defense of liberty. No soldier ever died in such a cause who did not achieve immortality. There is a glory and a splendor which at tend the soldier who dies on the field f battle, or who sacrifices 1imself in any great cause His soul, like John Brown s, goes marching on
 The best consolation for the father the mother, the wife and the sweetheart Is m the great joy of knowing that the be- loved one has done his full duty, has given to his country. his supreme sacrl- fee They need not worry about the here after. If there be one, they will find when they reach that shore that their beloved one has not been forgotten. but is safe, enwrapped in Gods all-embracing love.
 G. Bernard Shaw, in Leslie's.
 After death, what then9
 Well, victory to which death has con tributed. If that is not good enough, don't fight
 If an answer is desired which wll con- vince bereaved relatives that men do not really die in battle. I cannot -.rply it. If any one else can. I presume we shall all get shot as socn as possible and bless the kaiser for swing us the chance.
 do not grudge mother the shelter of a lie any more than I grudge a soldier the shelter ot a clump of briar, but the more thoroughly we realize that war is war, and death is death, the sooner we decoration despite the order, and severa. shall get rid of war