The New York herald., 1922-04-24
PASTORS RIDICULE
DOYLE'S SPIRITISM
Fraud and Freud Are Given
by Rabbi Newman as Two
Ingredients Of Theory.

While Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is
absent from the city on a lecture tour
which will; spread his doctrines CT spir-
itualism In Boston, Washington and
other cities, clergymen or various de-
nominations continue to denounce his
theories from the pulpit as opposed 10
the tonets of Christianity.
Fraud and Freud" are given by
Rabbi Louis 1. Newman as the two
substances Of which spirituaIisn is
made. A vigorous denial that the Bible
teaches spiritualism also was made
from the pulpit Of ST. James's Lutheran
Church yesterday by it's pastor, Dr.
Junlrs u. Rcn,ensnydcr.
AN the appearances from the outer
world mentioned in the Bible" said DIR.
Remensnyder. ARE of God and the an
gels. but never of departed men and
women. And these heavenly messengers
bring no tidings from the beyond, but
come to intervene in earthly events.
The Biblical condemnation OF spirit
ualisrn is strong and decisive. The words
of the Almighty are: Regard not them
that have familiar spirits. neither seek
after wizards the soul that turneth
after such I will cast him off from
positively aiiirms the unshakable CON
yiction of the human mind that the
dead cannot communicate from the
other world and the secrets of eternal
life are meant to be hidden from human
eyes
The expose of Palladino BY group
Of psychologists q few years ago was
recalled by Rabbi Newman in his SER
mon at Temple Israel yesterday calling
upon sensible American mon and
women to repudiate the theories OF Sir
Oliver Lodge and Conan Doyle ''and
the brood of charlatans, mediums and
conjurers who shelter themselves be-
meath the cloak OF religion and sci
encc."
THE psychical phenomena OF spir-
itualism are explicabie on the basis OF
the accredited formulas of psychology.
including subconscious impulses, autom-
atism of dissociated personality as
well as the shrewd readings of slight
indications furnished BY sttcrs at
seances" said Rabbi Newman
"Thc spirituaism of Lodge and Doyle
10 an insult to the intelligence OF think
ing men and women The Heaven de-
scribcd in Doylc's address is pure fabri-
cation in terms of the 'Frcudian wish !:
II IS the mere qualification OF human de-
sres in Paradise OF sublimatcd bodies
Oh the same plane as pictured in the
lowest forms of carnal Mohammedan-
lem
The Rev. Christian II. Reisner in the
Chelsea Methodist Episcopal Church rid
iculed in a similar manner sir Arthur $
conception of Heaven, suggesting that
II it were the material fulfillment Of
our desires perhaps that must mean
Looch for some"
1T takes a spiritual mind that is not
made by handling sticky macs OF
ocioplasm' 10 interpret the Bible" he
said "Sir Arthur tells US that the most
sac-cd day in the history Of tho church.
namely Pcrtecost. was only the high
carnival oe mediums and seances. He
puts the spirit into the soul as body
for II and then photographs some an
tique prophet to represent IT, Character
rarnot be photographed. 1t is forever
invisible"
spiritism Ds Per Cent. Frnud.
The Rev. Or. Richard Downey. a
psychologist Of Great Britain, who Is
delivering lectures here, declared last
night In an address before the Catholic
Library Association that excluding the
cases OF fraud, which amounted to about
9s per cent, the psychic phenomena
alleged to be produced by trance
mediums could be explained in tho light