Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-07-01
Message From the Other Side.

Psychical Research and one Of the
most prominent spiritualists in this
country, died at his home in Mont
clair, New Jersey. A few days ag,
DR.. A. d. Watson, a prominent Ca
madam psychic investigator, and a m
dunn named Luis Benjamin were ii,
| principals in a seance in New York, at
/ tended by about twenty well-known
men and women Of that city, at whic
it is asserted message was receive
from DR.. Hyslop. The medium, Ben
jamin, said that DR.. Hyslop wanted
send a message TO his friends on eartk
and DR.. Watson took down the fol
ing statement that was thus con
municated through Benjamin:
81, James Harvey Hyslop, am SEND
ing now short communication from
the new world, where | find mysel
functioning as an entity, a persos
an individual, one who has retaine
sufficient physical replica character
istics to be assured that survival is
fact, and that The continuity Of ind
vidual existence is as true as the fac
that he once lived in physical wor
and was known as James Herv:
Hyslop.
at is my desire that all unfinisho
manuscripts be taken care OF as OF
lined in my will, by the executors, an
that, when inform them who are I
record the work, they will be finishe
by me through the recording of ano
er, and then published
81 did not lose certain form
consciousness during the death expe
ence, and, with the exception of mon
cntary lapses, was conscious of all tn
ensued. To the dear ones around m
bcdside-dclcacy forbds the mention
of their names / give specific denia
to any illusory symptom of sufferin
in the process of physical death.
myers, Hodgson, and others real
pcoplc-were here to welcome me in a
real world. OF course | was dazed.
The experience was extremely pecu-
your higher self stepping from a crude
environment into larger world.
LAS promised to many on earth
| will prepare myself at once, assisted
by philosophers and scientists, to trans
NIT, through the most competent Earth
Plane mediums, evidence of an ultra
scientific nature that survival is a fact.
My first scientific communication re-
spective of this fact will be trans
mittcd through an involved, complex,
intricate crOsS-correSpondenc which
certain psychical investigators on the
earth-plane will receive and publish
Truly, one can ask with a smile: "Why
fear death p
IL am aware that an organization of
scientists, psychologists, philosophers
and teachers on this side of life, know
ing that contact with other worlds has
been established and is now as actua'
as wireless telegraphy and telephony,
have decided almost at once to hrl
the gulf and give scientific evidence OF
the authenticity of spirit communca
ton
81 have learned since coming
that Sir william Crookes has
ceeded in an astral laboratory in work
ing out the precise principles of q ..
chanical word, so that through a m
chanlcal instrument, thought W.,
from diSembodied souls-in a ph
senSe-wll reach you for the So
of humanity.
YOURS in the faith of the cont .
of life, JAMES H, HYSLOp"
None of the Canadians had ever
DR.. HySlop, they said. When the, os
sembled for the seance, they had
the slightest idea, they insisted. 'a
the American phychic researcher W
pick them out to divulge the secrc;
the astral plane. However, the, yo'
EMMY declared, he did send them IL
message as quoted.
DR.. Watson is president of the P-v.
chical Research Society of Canada end
author OF astronomical papers, thrce
books of verse and the 1.-The Twenti-.'
Plane" in which he tells all a5ou.
communications he says his mcGium
has had with the spirits of prom ny.
jewellers on the astral plane. Mr.
BENJAMIN, although his business is
selling goods ION the road" is a v,r,o.
teer worker for the Canadian Society
1t was during the Civil War and
the Northern and Southern outposts
were within hailing distance: