The Washington times., 1920-11-26

Last evening ] went to hear Father
De Heredia EXPOSE Spiritualism" In
lecture given at oonzaga College.
I had expected to hear Spiritualism
denounced and spirits declared I'M
real To my surprise ! heard TO the
contrary that he did believe In many
OF the phenomena attending seances,
but the real object OF the exhibition
was to impress upon the Catholic
spectators that they were not living
up to the promises of their faith II
they attended meetings where spirits
were supposed to demonstrate.
Father De Heredia gave a very in
terestinE exhibition of ledgerder-
main. He Is an expert at all slight
of-hand tricks, and he aroused the
interest OF many a one in the audi
encc. I think they would be more
than disappointed II they went to a
seance after seeing his performance,
as l have never seen any such dem
onstrations in seanCes. lie did nu-
merous card tricks, jugglery of va
rious kinds, and a good deal of mind
reading. In this latter ! was much
Interested, for he became scientific
and increased the vibrations of the
, room by having the audience sing a
practice resorted by many mediums
in order to secure conditions suitable
to spirit phenomena.
COMMENTS on LODGE.
He made some unfavorable COM
ments on Sir oliver Lodge which did
mot take well. He did give a DEM
onstration of table fitting and levita-
ton, a chair was made to dance, and
several raps were given in illustra-
ton OF mediums methods OF operation.
n ha hn ~ h a..
ton would have been excellent. and
he was a clever imitator. No one
suggests that there is not much
fraud fostered upon the public, but
the fraud Is but an imitation Of the
real phenomena, and IL people edu-
Gated themselves upon such lines they
would soon be able TO detect the true
and the false.
On the whole found nothing to
shake the faith OF any Spiritualist
and very little to scare others from
investigating for themselves. If
there was nothing for the Church 10
fear from Spiritualism then why
should they try do desperately to
brighten people away from seeing for
themselves.
Spiritualism need not alter the
faith of anyone, II they believe the
truth. Christ said know the truth.
and the truth shall set you free" To
be set free one must have been
bound. Bound by what, by doctrines
and creeds that threw the dust Of
ages in our eyes continually and kept
man from progressing mentally as
God meant him to do. Our minds
were given us to think with. not to
continually accept the thoughts OF
others. but to reasons out things for
ourselves.
CHRIST TAUGHT HEALING.
True spiritualists welcome investi-
cation, realizing that Christ was the
greatest medium the world has ever
known, and He communicated with
spirits. healed the sick, and went
down into Hell Ito preach to departed
spirits. He said greater things
than I do we shall do" but only in
the past few months have the Chris
tian churches even tried to do as He
did. Healing has now been taken up
by many churches 1000 years after
the death of Christ.
We realize that we are but infants
In this great work OF tearing away
the veil between tho two worlds, that
of the so-called living and dead. why
do we suggest death as Il elss ami
mated state than life, why not a
more SO. and that the spirit of man
liberated from the confining walls OF
Its material body Is much more ca
pablo than the living" man. I be-