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Show I SENSATION OF DEATH IS ONE OF j i! DELICIOUS LANGUOR, SAYS DOYLE I I II -Exponent of Spiritualism Says Words of Endearment Endear-ment Often Heard Are Not in Delirium But a Response to Appearance of Heavenly Heaven-ly Faces Overhead i mm kmm 11 VCW YORK. Ai'Ml 13.- (By the ' I Ao.iited P - r arthui Conn !Doyl Wednesday described the sen- iatlon of the flsathbeo" u h said H bssn coiwnunlcatsd tq him H ' from hey.md the Bty-, 1 It Listening to him wos a v.. t uudl-in uudl-in audisnri (ii.it filled -n-- H I Ifjo hull, .i" nvKil.-m-.- m il)) Of WllOSl I j members noon v. ill board Charon's II craft for the voyage which all must tlnon as the earnest words fell from !j from it. -I ic rtnrt letter: a f roll jj Death la not painful, but .1 DM IS- H ppoachea the soul the sthorlc 1 1 body float out from It ttohell. and lmv.is ftbOVS ih' human H llelay lathered onlj lj the sllvei cord l of which Bcclsslastos spooks. The j 1..- it. mii i ooa 1 ' flalit low lan- mm IJ The first tdght that grsets ins iv" 2 V bin of smiling;, loving fac hend-H hend-H 1ing over the deathbed, continue.! Sir I Art hui'. j Troof?" he aked. i UOHDS i:Hi li MM. ' 1 1 i. It tidying e. m hands turning old in (! death wretch out, hsard words ol mWM 1 1 sndeannenl fall from libs th soon mmm II would move no more Delirium , ; ; 1 ... 1 :,k.-.i th.- it ten kW ! spiritualism ugln. 'The designating I liiif cthorie body can be. has been pho-i, pho-i, jJtographed. 1 am Fortunate enough H 'J ., have Huch a plate" ! Then he told of eight daughters-IB daughters-IB It all clairvoyant who had snt beeldq I I their dying moth, i- SI -It whh love', to ' I he : In rl J! I,..dv 1isetiK.ige I. - "'If. ' -aid Th-r. fU Si was' a multiplicity of beautiful I ,- a.-cniin" agn I 1 Ig in d tallj could b.- given uf th. pacing of a M I -is in. I lint gc .id. -i he mm if asked. The I ' if-wlth the doctrines of Sir Arthur said, . I .1 to I M DIl N( i: TV1.N MX t Throughout the lecture the flrt mU 1 1 which Sir Arthur has given sinco he I Ume to America las- Sunday t v funds for propagation of a gospel. mmM I which he said was the beginning of mmm lla new religion for tho human race L .houBh nut -le i.ned to di . mW '..Id his hearers followed with rapt mW 'aitention the presentation of his . v. M' ' - lence of the spirit world mmm U He described at length his eonv-r-I sion from a rank materialist to iUch H faith in spn.tuallsm that he had H j l decided that his wife, his family his deputation in b'.t- 1'J'1 1 1 hf Kutter be.-l-le r His qualifications, he said, were mose of a ph si lan trained to the 'iHclentifie point of I S was deemed by sotn- who hadjiol- Mowed tho adventurer of Sherlock IT j I Holmes, some Might knowledge of de- f tectlvc work. ' 1 J TAHI-.K lM-r.- Mm I J Then he proceeded with h'.s defer,-!nf defer,-!nf th hypothesis that physical pi.e- l nom. r, I said, could be proved by such i-l-mmm l!dence as would carry a point In a j I court of law. ruc-rUe signal, he mmm iald they wer. forrer.poniliimr to the H II knock on a door here below, design -r, -Ird mereiv to herald BHe approach ol I J ! a friend and t.. 1 '" it'' '- f' 'tion of a skeptical World. WJ it Equal proof, he mid. coull be !!hrought forward lh.it the spirits of mwm ' I the departed, through irtodtuma, a 1 converse with their belov. d below (and that the3e Rieaaagea were the J essential things. IS "I stand but ankh-iieep. I a:i per- haps bring some mesaago to those I 11 who stanu ary-anoa on n.' jiiuto. I ' ' "HAS BEEN SIM KITS. j Spirits not only can converse with those on earth. Sir Arthur continued. I I but they can present thetftaelvc In I j I material form. He himself, he dell de-ll dared, had gazed on the faces of III I j mother, son and brother, and had ! talked with them. I Ji The materlall7.alion he s-id. waa I (made poslble through 'ectopia urn" pjjjjj J I a combination of matter and ther HI beaten toKether which emanated; H tl from the bodies of mediums j This BUbataffte he continued', could 1 be f lt analyzed and photographed. . jilfe himself had seen and felt It. he 1 j x.ild. and he had numerous photo-I photo-I j J graphs to prove it i existence. I I He said an etherlc liorty. the ex-I ex-I ir..' duplicate of the living, could be i' temporarily associated without death. & 1 1 This could be done, he aaldj bomo: I times througii the use of narcotics., J j though, he added 80) Ilingi . that lie I I did not advise this method. PROOFS OFFERED. ! t He then described an experience J of his own, ulion, sil ting in 1 den- I tist's cha:r under the influence of Hi' i S gas. he bed seen his wife and chjl-j chjl-j dren riding in u London cab Several j blocks away. lie Liter . ;u u.-il i aouall) were inline 'n a cab at the linn- 11. then viroceeded to redir whnt he .-aid con.-.tltuted proof of exlBt- ani or apirlta, piling up Ipetance on Inula nee, sinic of which he saidi he ha, wltnoaeod himself, and nil of v hli )i he said were thoroughly authenticated au-thenticated The first instance he related because be-cause of its simplicity and freedom from any posalblliu of trickery was a seance held in the nursery of his country home lie. "hi wife, his secretary and a medium, he "ai l sat m darkness for some nine without spirits appealing. iThen ihey begun 6inging a hymn of "Onward Christian Soldiers." Immediately, Immed-iately, he said a glorious baritone voice broke out over their heads. He topped singing anil list' nod checking check-ing up on the voices of nil the persons per-sons present until the voice of the stranger had sung through the whole hymn. If u was not an angel's voice, then what was It then'"' he demanded, demand-ed, I I I T (..Mii . LIPS. Througii the medium of a Welsh ccal miller, be had met his son. he SflJd, turning to the next instance. With a quavering voice he lold of th.- boy's; calling him eagerly, densely: dense-ly: "Father, father!" Then, he said, the olco had continued. con-tinued. Father pgrdOff!" Tho pardon, he nald. was asked be cause the buy hud not been able to subscribe to nls spiritualistic doctrine Then, he felt the pressure of a hand on his head, ami ihe bru-h of ghostly ghost-ly Hps. Through a Toledo medium. Sir Arthur Ar-thur said h"" had been brought Into contact wlih a deceased spiritualist with whom he engaged in an argument argu-ment oxer the plate where Ihey last hud mot on earth. Pointing to I, id Doyle, who sal on th platform beside be-side him. he said alio later had convinced con-vinced him that the spirit had been rihl. The eyes of the audience turned to in novelisT wife. She nodded in confirmation Most REMARKABLE CASE. Whui Sir Arthur said he considered consider-ed was the most remarkable demonstration demon-stration of the power of spirits to rominunicate with humans had been authentically established In .Melbourne, Australia. There. he said, parent? whose two BOOS had disappeared after they had put out to sea in a sail boiu with one sailor had traced their children through a medium. One son had told the father that they all had been caught In a squall and drowned Then he asked that his mother be taken out of the room. When she had left, he told his father thai his brother had been eaten by a stranei- fish, which did not resemble resem-ble any shark he ever had seen. A few days later. Sir Arthur said, a strange species of shark had been captured in the harbor. Inside it was found some human bones, and the boy's watch, chain and part of hi 1 vest. IN MIDDLE I.GE& Answering the question of skeptics as to how spiritualism had remained so long a secret. Sir Arthur declared that a member of the faculty of Harvard Har-vard university had just established The fact that alchemists of the middle mid-dle ages had known all about octopl-asm. octopl-asm. but that It was not safe at that time to parade more knowledge than was possessed by one's neighbor. Declaring no conflict existed be, tween spiritualism and the Bible. Sir 'Arthur asserted that "the New Testament, Testa-ment, from cover to cover, is pur" spiritualism " He quoted several pa a-ages a-ages of scripture he .i dared could bo understood in the llKhl of spiritual - luiii r, nil RrPffpslPil .hut 111,. uT,lrlt,i -.lit tle theory of life after death was the message that Christ sought to impart 2,000 years ago. Sir Arthur attacked the laws at present covering clairvoyants both in the I'nlted States and Flngland. and declared that cine medium whom he had known In London had brought solace to scores of thos? bereaved during dur-ing the war. and through a message from her husband had turned one war widow from suicide k LIABLE TO ARREST. "Yet that clairvoyant Is liable to b seised by the police and taken before) f court that knows absolutely nothing noth-ing alnmt psychic matters," exclaimed exclaim-ed the lecturer. "There Is not 0 clergyman In London who is doing as much good as that clairvoyant "Christ and his apostles would be In the same predicament If they were living under our Anglo-Saxon civilization." civili-zation." At the same time, sir Arthur de-p'ored de-p'ored fraudulent mediums and de-1. de-1. hirer le would make : a '.aw in their case more severe. He ai'?rted that true apirltuallatS abhorred fortune tell-In; tell-In; and the utilitarian purposes to Which spiritualism sometimes waa t urned. |