The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
ALL ARE PENNILESS
IN THE NEXT WORLD
BUT BUSINESS MEN ARE BAD
LY NEEDED THERE, ACCORD
ING TO SPIRITUALIST.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Big business
men are needed in heaven, according
to Rev. DIR. G. Vale Owen, anglican
clergyman and spiritualist, who lect-
ured on spirits today at the Broad
hurst theater.
Organization, decentralization and
scientific research will keep trained
minds busy in the next world, he told
his audience, declaring there was
plenty of room in the hereafter TOR
physicians and others whose activities,
at first sight, might seem superfuous
in a perfect land.
The vipilant eve of the expert &C
countant and the driving energy OF
the strong executive will have ample
opportunity for exercise, the speaker
Msaid, although everything is on an al
truistic basis. There is no medium OF
exchange. and everybody is Pennies,
but there is still need for seasoned
men of affairs, according to DIR. Owen.
"The first thing a mult1mllllonalre
said to me after he passed over, said
the clergyman, was, Owen, I'm
penniless here. | have no check book.
This was a very good and charitable
man and he did not regret the TACT
that he had lost his possessions, but
the loss OF everything could not help
making a strong impression on him:
Diseases Non-Existent.
Doctors are not needed to treat spir
if patients, because diseases do not
exist but they are Immediately en-
gagged in different specialties and lines
of research, which enable them to
make discoveries and communicate
them to their earthly colleagues.
While the living usually start and
show fear when they see a ghost, the
spirits have somewhat similar reac-
tons when they first see human be-
ings, according to the speaker. We
look ghostly. strange and transparent
to them. They can see right through
us. Our bones are marroWless and
there seems to be no speculation in
the eyes that we glare with. They
soon get used to us, as we get used
to them, and both sides forget they
are composed of different materials.
For the most part spirits walk, but
some ride about in chariots. Inquiring
why they used this antique vehicle,
DR.. Owen learned from spirits that
there is no bad weather and no sense
in closed vehicles, so they usually
choose chariots.
There are placid lakes, rivers and
seas and many of the inhabitants go
about in boats of all kinds, including
sailboats.
Aerial Navigation Circumspect.
Aerial navigation requires attentive
skippership, the clergyman explained,
because spirit body cuts through the
attenuated atmosphere at high speed,
and is steered purely by thought. A
wish to rise produces dizzy rush
aloft, and wish to descend causes
plummet-like drop; thought to star
board causes an instantaneous yaw,
and a moments inattention is apt to
result in a complete loss OF course. 1t
takes the utmost discretion on the
part OF the pilot to make the right
blend of the thoughts and impulses
which control the sensitive steering
gear.
Questioned by DR.. Owen, various
spirits told him of different zones, ap-
parently arranged something like
Dante's, because there is plenty OF
suffering" in some of them, according
to the speaker. This suffering IS not
punitive III is an lleSCdpdDlS 0nSel "
wickedness, and is curative, preparing
the sufferers for better things. Seven
spirits in this purgatorial state came
into his study one night. Six rather
CONTEMPORARY told him not to pray
for them. The seventh, Peter Warlng,
asked him to pray. The other SIX were
back in a months time.
pray for us, too" they said. They
had noticed such a Frightening up IN
the atmosphere around Peter Waring
that, hardened as they were, they real
lied the benefit of prayer" he said.
The first thing that the average
spirit does on leaving this earth is to
go to a rest house" DR.. Owen SAID
The rest is usually short. Sometimes
the spirit attends his own funeral.
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