Show I A AMan Man and His Faith fr I I I A GENERATION that grew up with Sherlock Sherlock Sher- Sher f lock Holmes as its favorite miracle worker cannot look on the death of Conan Doyle as anything less Jess than a personal loss The number of human beings with really good imaginations imagination's is never large Sir Arthur had one and it brought enjoyment and a pleasant intellectual stimulation into the lives of millions millions mil mU lions of people Yet ret it was not solely as the creator of Sherlock Holmes that Conan Doyle is He had another distinction distinction-a a faith bizarre but strong which struck a great many of his fellow mortals as outlandish but which nevertheless sustained and helped him him when hen he lie needed help very badly Indeed now that he is dead it is precisely this faith of 11 his is that sticks in ones one's mind For Conan Doyle was that peculiar anomaly a believer in an anage anage i ag age of confirmed skepticism Other men might debate the question of determinism might suggest that Then Inen nen arc are no better beUer than cunningly made machines But this aged i author could pin his life to the belief that th the 4 4 dead not only lived but cOl could ld be talked to 10 He could see a sent heaven reality beyond the th flub of table and dim lit Sance s se ance parlors He could look confidently a 1 athe at atthe t the grave as a portal and not as as' a a. final res resting resting rest rest- ing place Dupe or seer seer this man at least had found a a faith in a hereafter that made death easy easi cas' cas He had found a faith that sustained him n in his old 1 age e a faith that kept him from black despair when his son wa killed d in the trenches of France a faith that enabled him to die better than thail most of us will ilI be able to di dies die |