"TALKS WITH MR STEAD."

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 152, 27 June 1914, Page 17

"TALKS WITH MR STEAD."

SIR A. TERMER'S EXPERIENCES. General Sir Alfred Turner's psychic experiences, which he related to the London Spiritualist Alliance the other night, cover a very wide field, and- they date from his early boyhood. The most interesting relates to the reappearance of Mr. Sread. Ou the Sunday following the sinking of the Titanic, Sir Alfred was visiting a medium, when she told him that on the glass of the picture behind his back the bend of a man and afterwards his whole form appeared. She described him minutely, and said he was holding a child by the hand. He had no doubt that it was Mr. Stead, and he wrote immediately to Miss Harper, Mr. Stead's private secretary. She replied, saying j that on the same day she had s"cn a similar apparition, and' in it. Jlr. Stead was holding a child by the hand. A few days afterwards (continued Sir Alfred) at a private seance the voice of Stead came almost immediately and spoke at length. He told them what had hap- : pencil In the last minutes of the wreck. All those who were on board when the vessel sank soon passed over, but they had uot the slightest notion that they were dead. Stead knew, however, and he set to work to try and tell these poor people that they had passed over, and that there was, at any rate, no more physical suffering for them. Shortly afterwards lie was joined by other spirits, who took part in tbe missionary work. Mr. Stead was asked to show himself to the circle. He said, "Not now. bnt at Cambridge House." At the meeting which took place there not everyhody was sympathetic, nnd the results were poor, except that Mr. Stead came to them in short, sharp flashes, dressed exactly as he was wben on earth. Since, then, said Sir Alfred, he had seen and conversed with Mr. Stead many times. When he had shown himself he bad said very little: when he did not appear be said a great deal. On The occasion of his last appearance he said: "I cannot spe3k to yon. Bnt pursue, the truth, pursue the tfiuli. It is all true." •i am confident.- Sir Alfred declare-:. ■■that Mr. Stead will be of the greatest help to ihose of us who on earth work •litli him and to others who believe."