SPIRITUALISM AND THE POLICE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21972, 22 December 1936, Page 15

SPIRITUALISM AND THE POLICE

TO THB IDITOI OF THE PRISi. Sir,—Once more Mr Eglon Sercombe puts his head on my chopping block, and off it comes. He makes my tuquoque too easy, the way he clings to "It is written." He will not command much serious attention from the readers of this page so long as he does this. But how "does he know that he is not under some "strong delusion" picked up years ago in Devonshire as he told us some weeks ago, in Babbis-cum-cow byre—some vision or other he had when milking a cow? This vision may fail him when he hopes to have that "last laugh" as us. I shall be ashamed of my fellow spiritualists if I find them prone to behave no better than Mr Sercombe and his saints expect to do at our expense.—Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE. December 21, 1936. TO THE F.DITOS OF THB PRESS Sir, —A Cockney once visited Devon. He came to a nest of wasps and their beauty attracted him. "O look at these lovely, golden flies!" As he spoke, one lodged on him and without hesitation performed an operation with its hypodermic syringe, The Londoner took to his heels with more wasps after him.

"A Wasp" demands facts, not simple assertions; he admits there are champions of opposing camps. Now these camps must have a name and one of the champipns we read of in the Bible, "a son of thunder," has given these camps a name—one is "light" and the other "darkness," the head of one is Christ, the head of the other anti-

Christ. It is a positive fact that any who are willing can be translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light and when that translation takes place the translated one becomes a light with Christ, taking up his abode with Him. Then, and not until then, is the Kingdom of God in the translated one, and his duty is to serve God with reverence and godly fosr "Christ was a Man approved of God by miracles and wonders and signs," Anti-Christ—"even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.'* It is the responsibility of mankind to choose—which camp? Neutral they cannot be.—Yours, etc., EGLON SERCOMBE. December 21, 1936. TO TBt «IHTO» Of TBJI V%KB. Sir,—The reply of E. M. LovellSmith in "The Press" of Monday in reference to my query, "Where Ik Heaven?" is .but a long, long road " nicely-expressed language, but whit lands one eventually into "a condition rather than a "place." This reply seem; to me rather unconvincing, vague, ant unsatisfactory. In Peter Trolove's reply I notice 1 "must play the game, or be empty sen away." Now, what are the rules? L. one of them, for me "to be like a little child," and swallow without criticism just what any spiritualist (scientist or otherwise) offer me as facts and proofs? I have heard both Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur Conat. Doyle lecture, and they are quite entitled to» their opinions, as I am tc mine. All these side issues and padding j are not replies to my plain question "Where and what is. that Heaven"? I

The statements I made m/The Press of Saturday, I believe to be the truth (in reference to the harm—"the legalised religio parasites," and '•uncontrollable mushroom priests could and would do; should the laws against witches be repealed). Sentimentalism surely is foolish, when dealing with any menace . . . ! . Where and what is "the other side, where I am to undergo the extraction of- my stings—as now mentioned by Mr Trolove? It was, and is kind of him to grant me a pass—with stings attached. In the letter of Mr Eglon Sercombe in Monday's "Press" one notices how persistent he is, in quoting, "It is written." What is the truth? The world is hungering for "it." Jt is written that God made the sun to stand still, so as to give more light so Joshua could continue slaying his enemies, and help along this bloody massacre of his. It is written (in the Lord's Prayer). "Lead us not into temptation." Surely, this is but blasphemy. It is written that Satan ■ was cast out of Heaven for rebelling, yet Heaven is reported as being a place where no sin could enter, or exist —no tears, no sorrow there, yet it was the womb of all sin. Mr Sercombe concludes his terrorising letter by saying that he "will be set down with Christ on the Father's throne"! (but, however, not before the following Scripture is executed), "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." Now, can or will Mr Sercombe tell me, where Heaven is, or where is "the Father's throne"? he mentions. If, or when Mr Sercombe dies, and if before this execution of the Scriptures mentioned by him, what becomes of "him'' in the necessary interim of waiting for this doleful execution of this awful scriptural threat and as "It is written"? —Yours, etc., '< A. WASP. December 21, 1936. [Subject to the right of reply of Peter Trolovc this correspondence is now closed.—Ed.. "The Press."]