Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-14
CONAN DOYLE
SAYS HE SAW
20 DEPARTED
Novelist and Spiritualist Gives
Views on the Here
after.
WICKED ON LOW PLANNl

NEW YORK, April AT know alb
solutely what I am going to get after
death-happiness," said Sir Arthur CO.
| nan Doyle, English novelist and spirit
ualist, who arrived recently on the
White Star liner Baltic from Liverpool
to deliverthirteen lectures IN this cOun-
try on spirituallsm.
at is not mere hearsay," he continued.
az have talked with and seen twenty OF
my dead, including my son, when my
wife and other witnesses were present"
Sir Arthur, who describes himself as a
Spiritualist and Theist, a believer In
one God, is accompanied by Lady Doyle
and their three children, Denis Conan
Doyle, 10 years old; Malcolm Conan
| Doyle, IL, and Miss Lima Conan Doyle, Q.
Sir Arthur said that his wife and the
children were all spiritualists and happy.
They were loyal to God and knew more
of real religion than many bishops, he
said
After paying the expense Of the voy-
age to this country and Lack to England
he will devote the remainder Of the
money he receives for his lectures 20
the cause Of spiritualism in England. he
said. He belongs to the National Spirit
ualists Union and the London Spiritual
lists Alliance.
Both Sir Arthur and his wife spoke in
tones Of exaltation over the future OF
spiritualism, which, they said, would
predominant all over the world and
would bring love and happienss.
IS ATTEMPT TO
PROVE RELIGIOUS.
These are some Of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyles points in his argument for
spiritualsm:
Making every allowance for frag
(Which has been greatly exaggerated
and for self-deception (which is far
more cOmmon) there remains a great
residium of proved fact, which makes
this psychic movement the most serious
attempt ever made to place religion upon
a basis Of definite proof, which is what
all earnest minds must desire.
"Spiritualism is the one great final
antidote to materialism, which is the
cause of most of our recent troubles.
If we can make this good-and the
case has only to be clearly stated to be
proved-then surely America has good
cause to be proud that this great re-
statement Of the fundamentals of reli-
gion should have come upon her soil. It
has been degraded by some who be-
ieved in 1t, and derided by all who did
not. but the time has come to recognize
the vital good that is in it, and to free
1t from sorbid influences.
High spirits did not redescend upon
earth in order to tell fortunes, or to
advise on business matters, such uses
being a curse with them. The true aim
Of all communication with spirits is con-
ISOLATION, knowledge of spiritual matters
Including the conditions of life after
DEATH and self Improvement.
phenomena are elementary things, use-
full as signals which call our atten-
ton to the unseen, but tending too often
to distract attention from the real spir-
ltual knowledge to which they should be
an introduction.
NOT ANTAGOSISTIO
TO REAL RELIGION.
Far from being antagonistIc to reli-
gion, this psychic movement is destined
to vivify religion, which has long been
decaying and is becoming a mere for
mality. This new knowledge makes il
real and sure, and enables one for tia
first time to understand the actions an
views of the early Christians and *
their great founder. Without this psy-
chic knowledge, much of the New Tesla
ment Is incomprehensible. With 1t one
has renewed assurance of its essential
truth.
1T unites real science and real ren-
gion, each supporting the other"
Sir Arthur, though deeply impressed
by the experienced and convictions OF
Professors Hare, Crooks Lomblesi,
Richet, Lodge and others, is made more
certain in his position by his own actual
personal experiences, which he is pre-
pared to make public.
One OF the cheerful notes in Sir Ar
thurs discourse upon the life hereafter
was that only the ones we loved on this
earth would be able to meet US in the
hereafter. He said that people who had
led selfish, hard lives here would enter
the hereafter on a lover plane and
gradually descend instead of going higher
and higher until the spirit of Christ was
reached.
He said that the churches in England
were quietly adopting the tenets Of
Spiritualism. and that clergymen in read
ing the burial services over soldiers killed
In the war frequently said: These
heroes, who are with US in the spirit
and can hear US now"
TT has had a great deal to do with
abolishing the fear of DEATH" said Sir
Arthur, and l received many letters from
officers and men at the front that
spiritualism had been a great comfort
to the men in the trenches"