Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-04-15
WEDDINGS BUT NO
BIRTHS In HEAVEN
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Gives Re.
pOrters Some Inside Stuff On
Matters Psychic.

New York, April ll.-There are
marriages in the spirit world, but no
births, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle de-
clared today.
The celebrated English creator of
Sherlock Holmes" who has come to
America to lecture on matters psychic
made this statement in giving report
ers a more intimate view of the next
world as he conceived it, than on his
arrival yesterday on the Baltic.
Marriages, he said, were on a high
er level than in this world. They con-
stitute the mating of afiinities, he
added. and always continue happily.
Indeed, he said, there was a very
complex form of society in the world
hereafter.
Sir Arthur said the great agree
ment among spirits of various nation
alities, as to life in the spirit world,
was one of the strongest proofs of
the existence of such life. He added
that the spirit world was all about US.
bui iilat ii was expressed in colors
and sounds which our senses are too
gross to understand.
Sir Arthur said some ministers
taught that it is hard to get into
Heaven, but said a nominally decent
person could not keep from going
there at his or her death.
Asked about suicide, Sir Arthur
said one could not force the hand of
Providence, and that a suicide would
have to bear, in the spirit world, the
trouble that had caused him to end
his life.
He said the object of life was to
spiritualize ourselves and that riches
and successes here did not count
against that. Climatic conditions are
one of the stumbling blocks in the
path Of mediums, according to Sir
Arthur.
Lady Mediums Beat Climate.
"The spirit has to obey material
laws when it comes within our
sphere" he explained.
He added that. despite the differ
ence in climates between the United
States and England, two feminine
mediums from Detroit and Toledo had
been very successful in communica-
ting with spirits in London.
Sir Arthur, who claims to have
communicated, through mediums, with
more than score of departed, said
mediums had guardian angels"
special spirits with whom they us
ually communicated, and that when
they wished to get in touch with other
spirits, these guardian angels" serv-
ed as masters of ceremonies.
Expressing belief that all could be-
come mediums if the talent were de-
veloped, Sir Arthur said it was
through "ectoplasm" that conversa-
tion with the spirit world was con-
Quoted.
"Ectoplasm," he explained, "is a
substance emanating from the med
ium. At first it is a vapor, or gas,
which becomes glutinous or putty-like
and which in that state can be felt.
al have felt 1t myself. II can be
photographed. ! have a number of
photographs.
at has been analysed by DIR. Sch
renck- Nothing, in Germany, and also
by Partisan scientists. II has been
found to contain phosphates, carbon
ates, sulphates and some other sub
stance which has not been determined.
at is only in ectoplasm that spirit
can materialize. A spirit, passing
through it, becomes visible to the
medium. | saw my mothers face. in
the ectoplasm of a medium, following
her death few months ago. There is
not the slightest question about that.
II was while | was in Australia. The
face seemed as solid as in life"