The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-05
SEES SURVIVAL
 AFTER DEATH Dr. Day Gives Approval to Modern Scientific
 Working.

Dr, William HoracesDay, pastor of the large and influential United Con gregat1onal church, gave his approv- al, yesterday, to the task of modern ! scientific workers who are seeking i phenomenal evidence of survival after death. | He said that psychic research in | the old testament days was a. source 1 of superstition and error. He con l tinued:
 EtIt is interesting to turn to the Bible as it deals with those who try 1 to use psychic phenomena It con demns the psychic, both in the Old Testament and the New, in unmeas- | ured terms, because in the experience of the writers of the Bible the psychic ] has been the friend of superstition and the enemy of truth. the friend of ! immortality and the enemy of purity,
 the friend of irre1igion and religious
 degradation and the enemy of relig-
 ion pure, spiritual and undehled.
 Isaiah, the prophet, lived in a day
 that was shockingly like our own. Sudden wealth, waste, was on every
 hand; the people were mad for
 pleasure
 
 times when Iavfshness and luxury are
 coupled withe the experiences and
 losses of the war, that the psychic
 claimed attention. He condemned
 those who sought familiar spirits that
 creep and mutter, for the resort to
 spirits is the substitute for the only
 thing that gives life, whseh is tho
 search for God We turn to the Book of Galatians, St. Paurs letter . l. : most as familiar with psychics as they are in Seattle and Los Angeles
 and he cautioned them very sternlJ l and condemned it as one of the works
 of the flesh
 we come to our own time and
 think of the men who have tried to
 give an answer through psychic re
 search These men have wrought no bly, We will start with an immedi- ate recognition that it is our busi= ness to examine and to understand : all phenomena. These men have approached the task which defied , antiquity. They have before them the mass of ancient experience with
 all its hypocrisy and deceit and they
 have undertaken to sift the great mass of modern psycErac experience to see if in the mountain of chaff
 there be any grain of wheat. .tAs a result of that investigation , we find a man like F. w H. Myers,
 a very remarkable Christian and sci : entific man of England, at the close of his life saying T see grounds for
 hoping we are within sight of a reli-
 gio17s synthesis, which although as vet rudimentary, may in the end , meet more adequately the reasonable 7, needs of man. We turn the pages
 of Professor Hyslop's new book and
 we find Professor HysIop coming out
 with two convictions science is T able to prove survival and is able tC demonstrate the possibility of com ? InInication- A great many scientific Q jTeupae cannot agree that Professor
 Hysaop has proved these two things
 but it is very interesting as it would S be very valuable could they be fin s ally demonstrated to the materia f senses, and there certainly is nothing
 either unscientific or rre11gio1s il l making an honest appeal to all ou1 e scientific parapflernaIfa to make tha f a truth.
 n 'TThere are also many others, but n will speak just a word about Basl e kings interesting book The Abolish s. ling of Death Here is a man wht e bv automatic writing is convinced q that he himself has found absolut' l. iproof of survival and that the com $ 4mrnion of the saints in which he hat
 always believed now becomes to hi
 faith the communication between tn 7 saints beyond and the living here X. This belief that personality survive h and that we may have some definite Zt Intelligent fellowship with those tha at have gone on is certainly a grea
 contribution; there has been anothe
 and perhaps the most important con lg tribution of the Socety for Psychi le Research in the demonstration Of tn il fact that. by all odds the large ma ce jority of the phenomena which " D. call psychic are more truly s1eight-of S. hand. They have clearly discoVere e. and announced that fact though the -h still believe that ultimately they ma is be able to prove that after the noun :" tain of gravel has been washed ava t. there may be really grains gold tha
 may remain to gladden. and enric 1e our existence and our knowledge. ,n Jesus announces T am the resu1 V. lrection and the life. Whosoever be al lieveth on me shall never die R. we believe in him, he tells us, " ae shall not die for we share throug
 him, from the moment we beliey
 in life that is imperishable.'
 At the Vesper Communion at 4:30
 the afternoon, 12s new members wei
 welcomed into the fellowship of tf
 United church Among tfllS hOInbe ' was Dr. G. Sherwood Eddy. Wine
 tDr. Eddy starts out again for Il
 great work among students the w-or 'a around, which he will do early i+ May, leaving first for Ccezho- -SBovafk
 at the invitation of the goUernmer - the United cfurch of Bridgeport ", + ts be his church home, and it will Bridgeport's privilege from time - - time to have the inspiration of h so magnetic personality and world ou o look.
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