Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-20
LODGE SAYS WARS
DEAD STILL LIVE.
Eminent Scientist Tells Audi
ence That Victims Exist in
Happier Spheres
MANY FIGHT FOR SEATS

Families were not broken up by the
war; the various members merely were
separated for a time, to be reunited
later when those still in this existence
pass on.
This great word of comfort was
brought to sorrowing families bereft by
the war by Sir Oliver Lodge, British
scientist. in his address on The Real
ity of the Unseen at the Academy of
Music last night.
At the conclusion Of an immensely
gripping dissertation on things spiritual
and psychic the scientist had made a
deep impression on all present, even
though he failed to convince many.
The speaker prefaCed his remarks on
the "unseen" with an explanatory ad-
dress on the solar system and things
manifestly true in the sight of every
body. From this angle he launched on
his talk on the body and soul.
"A thing, II it is great enough said
the scientist "is conceived by the Holy
Ghost. Then it is incarnated. We can
see the body. but we cannot see the
soul. The soul wields the body. The
soul controls the body. The brain is the
connection between mind and matter.
Here in this present state we have
a material body. Later we will have
an ethereal body.
To Meet Friends Only
Hereafter we will be able to asso-
ciate only with those with whom we
have sympathy. We will be able to
associate only with our friends. Those
who have led selfish lives, who have
lived for themselves alone and have
made no associations or friends will be
lonely indeed.
Memory and character are not lin
tied to the body. They are not a part
of the body. The body is only their in
strument.
"When we quit this body and go on
into the other world. as we call it we
will take with us nothing but ourselves.
We are welded to ourselves for all eter-
nifty. There is no separating our minds
and characters from ourselves. Aud
what horrible thing that will be for
some persons!
''Self- consciousness is a nerfect nui-
sance here. 1t is worth while to make
ourselves worth living with. as we will
have to live with ourselves for all eter-
nifty.
Slain Soldier Happy
1--WE are not far separated from the
other side. We are all of one family
now.
"Would that the mothers of America
who lost their sons in the war knew
and understood the condition in which
their offspring now exist.
"Those boys are happy and busy.
They are doing their little jobs just as
they did them here. They are anxious
that you should not be sorrowful.
''We are separated from those who
have gone before only by a veil of the
senses. There is no gulf between us.
If there is a gulf it is between heaven
and hell, not between heaven and earth
II there is a chasm, love bridges the
chastn.
do not let horrible thing like
war break up our families. 1t is sad
for these young fellows, in way, to
have been cut off in their youth with
their tasks uuqompletcd, but they died
Ia noble cause.
They are not gone from US entirely.
They merely have emigrated before us.
They are not disembodied. They are
discarnate.
Merciful That We DO Not Know
''It is a merciful dispensation that
has screened us from so vast a uni
verse as that lying beyond. II is merci-
full. because we can attend to our daily
duties, do the work that falls TO our
portion, fulfill the tasks that are i'm
posed on us.
''If we could perceive the happiness
= beyond the veil, we would be over
whelmed'
Sir Oliver then explained that after
death persons go to the place in the
hereafter for which they are fitted.
''There may be people" he con-
tinued, 'who are so low that they can
associate only with devils. But | have
never seen such persons.
''There are others who may be saints
and may be fitted at death for the
glories of Heaven Far be it from
me to deny it.
"The spiritual universe IS the foun-
dation of all religion, The Communion
of Saints-the communion of the
spirits with the people on this earth
is reality. They and We are agents
of the Almighty.
''We speak of the world to come.
don't know that there is Il next world.
believe that it is all in one world.
THE kingdom of Heaven is all about
us. The earth is one Of the heavenly
bodies"