New-York tribune., 1922-04-10
Great Psychic Rzcvemen,
Will Ou4s Established
Religion ia 50 Years,
He Say OF Arrival Here
Lecture -FOUR To
Be Labor s1f Love
British Novelist Declares
His Tests Prove There Is
No He'll in Hereafter

WITH 0fte yeats Spirltuslism.
b.ckod b. tho Overwhelming force that
IS nov mohiii7ine behind t0e psychic
rosement viii sweep the world and
,sse the place OF the religion of to-
tsy-religion which has long been de-
gazing ard is becoming a mere for
nslity.
This IN substance is the message
brought to these shores by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle the distinguished Eng
lish novelist, who arrived fror, Liver
rool yesterday on the White Star liner
Baltic, to preach the doctrine of
iSpiritualism in a series Of fifteen lee
lures that will carry him as far west
ss Chicago. There is no money in the
pilgrimage. II Is labor of love and
the proceeds Of his tour will be used in
;ur,herance Of what he called the
Cause.
Big Frame RsGiate. Happiness
Sir Arthur is a massive man. broad
.. shoulder and six feet in height. His
hair is thin and brown, but shows nc
trace Of gray. He is erect and the
muscles that cover his enormous frame
give one the impression that they are
hsrd and powerful. The dominant note
ef his talk Yesterday on board the
Baltic was one Of spiritual freedom,
happiness ard an absence Of fear. He
talked happiness and his ruddy, face
seemed to radiate it,
To get away from the dense smoke
Of fsshlght powder he picked out
windy doorway near the promenade
deck. and there answered questions
concerning his big theme. He had
spoken hardly dozen words when
three robust children romped by him
from the starboard side of the COM
rsnon way to port shouting "Come
daddy, quickly, There is the Statue
Of Liberty"
"Yes, yes" he answered, 81 have seen
|. before" Then following them with
his eyes he remarked: "There go my
ehildren--spiritusl all of them,
Happy children who have no fear of
death"
tn response to question as to his
proof that copn,unication with the
dead was possible he replied with con-
victior that he knew it was so because
he had talked with the dead himself.
~ have talked with more than twenty
Of my dead he said. Through
medium. Of course. because it is nee
essary to have delicate nateriallza-
tion as means of communication.
have talked many titmes with my son
Kingsley, who died of pneumonia IN
November, 1915, after his return from
the front
Life Beyond Little Different
"lt i. delightful and comforting
thing to know positively that we live
after death and that we know whittier
we are going. There is little difference
between this life and the life beyond.
We have found that it is difficult to
convince those who have passed on
that they are dead. They are happier
after death than we are here, and
there is no pain
have not been spiritual in this life, or
who have not conformed to righteous
living, are detained in preliminary
state, where they work their way tc
t.hc happier realm.
Bet certainly" he said, "there Is nc
hell after death. | should say. rather
,trst instead OF being detained in q hel
ltne unspiritual who depart this life are
detained in a sort of spiritual hospital
where waiting is tedious and not at al
pleasant"
Asked If it was difficult for one
brought up in Christian faith to be.
come converted to spirtualism, Sir
Arthur repiied that it was not.
at IS quite different he explained
sfrom shifting from Professionalism to
catholicism or vice versa, because
there YOU have shift from one thing
that is opposed to the other. 1t is not
&c with spirituslism. | myself was
reared in the Roman Catholic faith
but at nineteen, while medical stu.
icent, became a convert to material
ism As + child ] wss compelled to &c
20 church three times a day and II
tauseated ne. still have q great love
sor the dear old fathers who taught
ne when ! was a youth, but I still be
isye they we're narrow minded.
1T IS an amazing thing to me that
splritalisn in its present advanced
stage has not become widespread unit
Tow, Judge Edmonds, whc was on the
'nench in New York, wrote book or
'he subject back in 1859 which was &
marvellous thing and the reading o.
mat book nearly thirty years ago con
serted me-
SIR Arthur said he invited criticism
Continued On Gags shres)