| Show t In V 1 I IS SURE V WAY HELL DECLARES VAUGHAN 0 Militant l Father Launches Stiff Upper Cut at at- atI I r Belief t r rI I 1 by y BERNi DERN RD T I Cleric of oO World wide Fame t IA London LOndo May 29 People People In this country who have been brought up on provided school education U that at is to toJ J say tay on morality dl divorced d from do dogma a have been boon passing passing- through three i stapes stages of ot substitutes for the tho Christianity Christi Christ V anity of ot Christ Finding it altogether Impossible to shako themselves free tree from religion they have havo tried to feed teed themselves themselves I upon fraudulent foodstuff Call It bT by flight Name Y une The new revelation la is entitled spiritualism spiritualism spir spir- bat but it would be better to call it by it proper name the tho old super super- Once you became swept into the spiritualists spiritualists' spir spir- charmed you ou may get sacked down into hell Itself like a 3 ship caught In the tho Goodwin sands Bands A diabetic subject finds It takes him all his hla time to keep koep away from sweet and starchy foods which are poison polson to him with death as a n certain ln result result- In tho the same mo way the tho neurotic and morbid and tho the unsound are so strongly attracted to the spirit world that they easily become the tho prey of ot insanity Should Own Asylums Asylum I think that a a. law should be bo passed forcing spiritualists to build their r own asylums It is ia not fair to ask the tho public to pay rates for tor people lo who shut their c eyes and open a door which the they cannot close Dr Charles Mercier writes I 1 know from my own medical experience ox- ox that tho pursuit of or the tho cult leads loads to a morbid frame of ot mind and tends to render who are arc at all an predisposed to insanity an easy casy prey of or the disease Dr G. G M. M Robertson Similarly superintendent su superintendent su- su of the Royal asylum Morningside Edinburgh writes I desire to warn those who may possibly inherit latent tendencies to nervous disorders to havo nothing todo todo to do With kith practical Inquiries of or a spiritualistic spiritualistic spir spir- nature Inquiries into spiritualism spiritualism spir spir- sometimes lead to Insanity inthe in tho the predisposed Once again Col R. R H. H Elliott the eminent medical specialist and chairman chair chair- chairman man man of ot tho the occult committee of or the magic circle did not hesitate to sa say tho the other day thatTo that thatTo To stop the kind of ot thing that is going on and md to get people back b to sanity Is a a. national work Once a n person gives way to the temptation of ot thinking that ho he sees things thinS's ho passes from illusions to the tho st stage sto o of or delu delu- That is the danger danser and a very distinct danger I might prolong tho the list of ot medical opinions upon tho the menace menaco of or spiritualism but I havo ha cited authorities enough Som Something In It Silly stupid people who do not stand upon their own feet or think with their own minas argue that if Ir Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dorlo are the tho devoted advocates of spiritualism spiritualism spiritualism and make it their proud boast that they thoy can introduce their clients to the spirit world there thero must be something In It Of Ot course there thero Is something in it just as as there is something in a a. dose of cocaine or an injection of or morphia But wo already have o more than our share of ot citizens in asylums and on tho the borderland of asylums without unnecessarily adding addingto to their numbers The so-called so men of ot light and leading In spiritualism may be authorities authorities authorities au au- in their own professions About that I am not prepared to say Both these gentlemen have o been hard hard- I 1 ly lIlt hit hit In the War and t th IS THE TH T TJ I sympathy but ut beware of ot support In this thin camouflage which la is set sel up no not t r- r resurrection but for tho the fall of ofin of ofIn o J In To me mo quite a strong r m me against spiritualism Id in tho cite effect ct 1 I has hns had upon both Lodge and nod D Doyle oyle To 10 my thinking It has haG had a very de demple deteriorating deteriorating de- de effect Take Tako for mple j Sir Olivers Oliver's following statement Ho lIo tells us that a table can exhibit certainty taint that It can seek for i Information for for- mation matton that thal It can Indicate jO Joy y or sorrow fun or gravity Had ho he said saida a a cane-bottomed cane chair or or a table C a D. fender or a a. poker could exhibit t t to tome tomo me mo thc those tokens of endearment I c could ouId follow him him and and pity him Piffle TUne and Dribble I read up and down all sorts of ot wild wildas statements made by spiritualists as ns though they were witnesses giving ev- ev under oath When len dragged out outs Into the light It seem seema a s to tho the dark of or I me to turn into into piffle puna and dribble As A. an English patriot I I denounce with all the vehemence of or my soul the tho frauds rands tho the freaks and the fiends who shelter th themselves from the tho true light lIc-ht lIchtIn in the black holes holos of ot occultism You might do worse than emblazon classic over ever every room the words All hope abandon ye e that en enter enter enter en- en ter here bere |
