ANCESTRAL MEMORY.
TO THfc EDITOR OF " TIIB PRESS." , * $ Sir, —In. your issue of the 31st among "Topics of the Day," under the , !) above heading appears the following :—»*£ ''When one sees a ghost one docs not I ,J really see anything." May I aefc, if .| one does not really see anything, how-,'"; the-dickens can you see a ghost P eonally I thing the Rev. of solving the problem of apparition* »,'Jj more wonderful than the problem. itvjj eolf. The clergy are always aaeurring u»;i that no such, thing as a ghost has been seen, or ever existed, and a«s*, yet nerer tired of trying to oonrjnwf: us tliat we shall all be ghosts bri spirits. They never eeem to that if xre oould really get absolute?! proof of a. giioet or-spirit baring becaf seen, the great and burninjr of a future 'life would, be eoTred. - Dfi| Annandiale'e dictionary defines am •fS parition as an appearance; ghost, a "visible" spirit. Note the wdrav visible.; I.onoe saw a meet apparition or appearanoe., and I *m'*J pretty teveJ-headed man;' and its no n»| the Rev. Pluinp3 or anyone else mc that I saw nothing, but that Bofl)*« anoestor had seen it before. . what I saw never existed in the iti of eny of ray anoestore.—-Yoliw, v etc.^ • July 31st,-1006. "\ ;>; \%j
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12570, 13 August 1906, Page 8
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