SPIRITUALISM IN NELSON.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17813, 12 July 1923, Page 2

SPIRITUALISM IN NELSON.

FBOK OUB Ovjf CORBXBPOHDBCT. LONDON, June 1. Dr. B. J. Tillyard's many virtues are set down at some length by Mr Horace Leaf in "Light," the journal of the spiritualists. Mr Leaf has evidently returned from a lecture tour in Australia and New Zealand. Referring to drawing-room lectures at Nelson, the writer observes that Dr. Tillyard's remarks &b chairman will always remain in his memory as amongst the most pointed and courageous observations to which he had ever listened.- "He made it perfectly plain that as a scientist he was out for truth, that he did not consider whether a thing was popular or orthodox, but whether it was true. In spiritualism and psychical research he believed he saw one of the most important and illuminating forces in the world, for if men and women could be convinced by scientific means that they are destined to survive death, he beieved that their lives would be transfigured and transformed, and the main difficulties daily life satisfactorily solved. "It.is a splendid thing that such progressive people as Dr. and Mrs Tillyard should be there, for they have already stirred the people out of their religious sluggishness, compelling them to pay attention to various forms of progressive thought, of which spiritualism is regarded as the most important. A coterie of friends has formed round them, all sincerely interested in psychic subjects, and soon after we left sittings for the development of mediumistic powers were begun with promising results. There is at present no spiritualistic organisation in Nelson, but no doubt in due course some such institution will be established; and if it is, this town may well become the intellectual centre of spiritualism in Australasia."