Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-11
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ARRIVES
In U. S. FROM ENGLAND; WILL
"RAID' AMERICA, NE ASSERTS
Creator Of Sherlock Holmes Will Make Lee
ture Tour in Behalf of Spiritualism; Does
Not Believe in So-called Mediums Who Use
Silver or Glass Bowls.
my THE ASSOCIATED PRESs.)

ia Ell HhhNS.j
ly a great white truth of the Bible
and religion. It is pristine purity
Of thought and action combined,
There is nothing mysterious about
it. 1t is clear and open. Az you
have to do is to think of life after
death, a life of enviable beauty
and realize that there can be no
fear Of death because with spirit
ualism you know exactly what is
going TO happen to you"
Children Are Spiritualists.
Denis, Malcolm and Dina. the
three Doyle children, are spiritu-
allste, but they have never attended
seances. The reason is that Sir
Arthur and Lady Doyle do not be-
lieve in subjecting them to a pos
sible nervous reaction.
why" said Sir Arthur. IT went
to church three times week when
I was a child. 1t became a sort of
nausea with me. / became a ma
terialist of the worst kind. I shall
allow the children to make their
own lives. And they will be the
more ardent spiritualists because
| do It,"
Sir Arthur calls himself a theist,
believer of an infinite. omnipo-
tent, omniscient God. His devel-
opment in spirituaIism, he said, has
taken Sc years, from the time he
read a book written by the late
Justice Edmunds Of the supreme
court of New York. His intense
interest in the subject dates from
the death of his son, who was
wounded during the war and died
of pneumonia shortly after the ar
mistice.
Details of Other World.
"I am surer OF what l will find
in the next existence" he said,
than I would be if I were carried
to the middle of Africa or Asia and
set down there. We have the most
minute details of the other world.
When I compare this knowledge
with the knowledge we have of
Asia or Africa. / am taking into
consideration what we know of the
tribes and all conditions. The
change after death is so slight at
first that those who have passed
into the next existence are hard to
convince they are dead.
1.-THE change in the spirit Is grad
ual for period. Those who have
developed spiritually on this earth
are further advanced in the next
Before giving in detail his de.
scription of the next existence"
Sir Arthur summed up his argu-
ment as follows:
Residuum of Proved Fact.
"That making every allowance
for fraud which has been greatly
exaggerated, and for self-deception,
which is far more common, there
remains a great residuum of proved
fact, which makes this psychic
the most serious attempt
ever made to place religion upon I
basis of definite proof which Is
what all earnest minds most desire.
at is the one, great, final anti
dote for materialism which Is the
cause of most of our recent world
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 restatement of the
fundamentals of religion should
have come upon her soil. 1t has
been degraded by some who be-
lieved in it, and derided by all who
did not, but the time has come to
recognize the vital good that is in
it, and TO free it from sordid in
fluences.
High spirits do not redescend
upon earth in order to tell fortunes,
or to advise on business matters.
The true aim of all communication
with spirits is consolation, know
ledge of spiritual matters, includ-
ing the condition of life after
death and self improvement.
phenomena are elementary
things, useful as signals which call
our attention to the unseen, but
tending too often to distract atten-
ton from the real spiritual know
ledge to which they should be an
To Vivify Religion.
Ear from being antogonistic 10
religion, this psychic movement is
destined to vivify religion which
loH5 mas peeu uSSdS lliB anu beSOIi-
ing a mere formality. This new
makes it real and sure,
and enables one for the first time
to understand the action and views
of early christians and of their
great founder. Without this psychic
knowledge, much of the new tesla.
ment is incomprehensible. With it,
one has renewed assurance of its
truth,
ut unites real science and real
religion, each supporting the
other."
The Doyles will be in America
three months. Sir Arthur does not
intend to seek to organize spiritual
SIN in this country, he said, but
merely to explain it.