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Show SPIRIT COMMUNICATION. Ilr. Stead Is a Firm Believer and Explains What He Means by It. W. T. Stead, the English editor who has been creating a series of sensations in Chicago, speaking there of the unwritten un-written messages he has received from distant people by the telepathic process, 6aid: "I have had many of them since 1 have been in Chicago. I place so much reliance on some of them if I should receive re-ceive a communication in this way from some of my friends I should act on it with the Eame certainty that I would if I received the same message ty post. ..'.'If their request was for a 5 note, 1 should send it without hesitation if the circumstances were such that I would have sent it if the communication had been in the ordinary way. If I were the editor of a daily paper, I could receive re-ceive a great many of my telegrams in this way without the expense of telegraph tele-graph tolls. The only reason that 1 could not receive all of them in this way is that the communication between all mediums is not equally perfect or trustworthy, and those on whom I could rely would not always be in the place where the events of interest were occurring. occur-ring. "Now, why is it that so much of what purports to be spirit communication is rot and inanity? Well, for one thing, the greater part of what is spoken and written by persons still in life is rot and inanity, seaseless chatter. And the mere fact that a mind has been disembodied disem-bodied does not endow it with wisdom. "Man's body is merely an animated, two legged telephone, through which, by the organs of speech, the eyes, the gestures and motions of the body, the mind communicates at short distances with other minds. When the body dies, the telephone is rung off." Washington Washing-ton Post. |