Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
BY JEAN CONAN DOYLE.

her profoundly at q time which, but for
that faith, would have been one Of sor-
row.
BY JEAN CONAN DOYLE,
widow of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
(copyright, 1880, by North American News
paper Alliance. All rights reservedo
CROWBOROUGH, Sussex, England,
September $50 many people have
written to ask me why spiritualiSm has
helped me through the dark valley OF
the shadow of death-which my heart
and life have had to traverse, in los
ing my beloved husband.
When his dear presence was sud
denly taken from me to the utter sense
of desolation-the void-the silence
the grey lonely path in life stretching
ahead of me without that dear hand
in mine was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
seemed to have gone from life-when
gradually I realized wonderful light
was shining ahead showing me the
way to cross the dark, dark valley.
What was that light? 1t was
God-given knowledge which brought
balm and comfort Unreasonable to my
stricken heart. A knowledge which
gave me strength to carry on-Strength
sit and face 10000 people for nearly
three hours at the Albert Hall at the
wonderful memorial service to my nus
That knowledge (not faith or BELIEF
filled my heart with an inexpresSible
comfort and q great certainty.
It was that knew my husband would
and could communicate with me, that
he would be able to make his psychic
presence felt In our home, that ne
would be able to keep in close touch
sSall Nvyae
guide US until he greetS US at the
little gate that was called death.
Death Is Only q Gateway.
That knowledge, which have tested
time after time in sixteen years OF In
vestigation and have proved to be 100
per cent true, was my bulwark In the
great storm of my life.
What Is that knowledge? 1t Is that
into another vibration Of life, the
etheric vibration, as solid to those who
live in it as the material world Is TO US.
The veil is very, very thin between the
two spheres Of existence.
There are, Of course, higher and
HIGHER spheres-stepS in the ladder OF
spiritual evolution. Those in the next
sphere of life can and do see into ours,
but only those in our material plane
who have that God-given gift called
clairvoyance, which st. Paul called the
discerning. of spirits, can see into the
etheric sphere. -.
Hew do / know these things? win
tell you. I have been in touch with
people on the other side OF the thin
veil dividing this world from the other
spheres of existence dozens ana dozens
| of times-through mediums all over
the world, in the presence OF many W.T.
nesses.
/ have heard at o private seance OF
| ours three spirit peoples voices talking
simultaneously, the medium breathing
| in q deep, deep trance all the time; and
| three spirit people at the same time
| talking to three Of our friends, re-
minding them of old days and things
only known to the earth sitters and the
spirit people.
Prophecies Fulfilled.
have seen all the signs Of Pente-
cost in our upper room on SUNDAY
a rushing wind, the tongues OF nre,
great voice addressing each from above
prophesying something to my husband
which it was impossible for anyone IN
| the world to know would happen, but
which was fulfilled within twenty-four
hours Of the whole seance under the
strictest test conditions.
have seen faces materialize as clear
| " as have seen them in life, the blue
ewes. the wrinkles, ETC., just the same
and the people to right and left OF me
saw them, too.
It is no use some ignorant, con-
sible to communicate with the dead
because he has not done so. II ~
independent people said that they nae
| visited some newly discovered country,
and, although all unknown to each
other, each described the same things
seen in that country, we should believe
those IL persons.
We should pay no attention to the
man who said IL was not so because ne
| had never been there. We should JUST
think what fool the man was to dare
to talk o. something he knew nothing
whatever about. SO It Is with tne man
who talks of spiritualism in that way
never having spent six months IN
reading or in investigating the subject
To communicate with those living In
the higher vibrations Of life is very
like tuning ir to the wireless. There
Is Daventry (the broadcasting station)
for example-tlat is those on the other
side of the veil-strong and longing te
get through to US; there Is the aerial
knowledge through reading and In
vestigation): there is the receiving In
NLlIC IuCQA0kl 0v tAAAo Ch4J
How can Daventry tune In II one Of the
vital wires is down (the sitter knowing
nothing) and the instrument blocked
(by stupid incredulity)?
seek, and Ye Shall Find"
Clear the line and open ; lie door Of
reason and a most wonderful knowledge
will be yours. Seek, and ye shall
find" Those lords have proved u
be very very true
How often I have heard on tho
"other side" people say: Why were
we not told these things by the church
when we were on the earth plane? The!
told us nothing, and when we come owe
here we are all befogged for some time
because everything is so different from
what we expected. 1t would have mad
such a difference to my life on eartl
had 1 known; I could have borne it 81
much more easily had I known what |
wonderful world lay ahead Of me, sucl
full human and happy existence"
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