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Show !H; u MM""MMMni "cc Rhodes once told me that early in Ejjg I' life ho had devoted much thought to the Wi 1 Dcfllth's question whether or not there was a God. jfjj He came to the conclusion that there was a if ViOOSIIl c0 Per cent- chance of his existence, and TCI. therefore that it was a matter of tho first y ' l"liy importance to ascertain what God wanted t ' Bridded iimtodo. 5 . n 'kc fashion I would ask the reader to consider whether or not thero is any By W. C. STEAD, proof that the conscious life of his pcrson- L.ndoo Killer ... joamtUiL nlity will persist after death. Put the per-iCSZZISZISZZIZZZIIl per-iCSZZISZISZZIZZZIIl ccntage of probability as low as you like; if there be even the smallest chance of its truth it is surely nn obvious corollary frQm such an admission that thero is no subject more worthy of careful and scientific examination. Nothing jr. can be less scientific than to ignore the subject and to go bn living from Ej day to day in complete uncertainty whether wo are entities which dissolve I , liko the morning mist when our bodies die or whether wc are destined to I go on living after the change we call death. The recent applications of electricity in wireless telegraphy and wireless telephoning, while proving nothing in themselves as to the na-turo na-turo or permanence of personality, are valuable as enabling us to illustrate the difficulties of proving the existence of life after death. , " If Christopher Columbus after discovering America had been unable ' to sail back across tho Atlantic Europe would, after a time, have con- I eluded that he had perished in an ocean which had no farther shore. I Now let us transport ourselves from tho time of Columbus to our I own day. The terrors of the unknown world would not daunt forever I the intrepid spirits of European explorers. A ship or ships would be I equipped to cross tho Atlantic. When their crews and passengers landed i, on tho farther shore they would discover that those who wero thought i to have perished had founded a great commonwealth in the new world. m At last after innumerable disappointments some K method would be discovered of dispatching replies and l ff; ' of receiving answers. At last the scientific world JJJ5j2S55 ft -would wake up to tho recognition of tho fact that a '-v JL prima facie caso had been made out for tho strange, JT olmo-t incredible phenomena that seemed to point L j to the possibility that there was another world beyond fcT- ; the Atlantic, and that its inhabitants could, by means X$$0iKjl t of wireless telegraphy, communicate .with Europe. fflfejy JFjf j 'J The difficulties they would encounter would be Flrry JiJk :f the identical difficulties which confront us in our quest wLaKmh j for certainty as to tho life after death. But, with WmjKffim t patience and perseverance and careful allowance for jmf nfmlul y tho obstacles in the way of transoceanic intercourse, jffj fglfifaMIA ' I the existence of the other world is soon about to bo esgsjiBlini mm established beyond all question or cavil. iell-! lift L |