IS SPIRITUALISM TRUE?

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 2

IS SPIRITUALISM TRUE?

QUESTION DEBATED,

.^ lac Question, "Is Spiritualism True?" lormed the-subject ot an interesting public debate before a Rood attendance in tne. : .boncert-:Ghambe'r •last everiing'-"be-tween-: the Rev. Wyhdhanv Heathcote, -a. A.; ■ for the- affirmative;' arid :'i\lr H" bcott.:Bennettr who: .presentedvthe.rneßa,tiye point O f view. Mr. Heathcote ■ ad-mitted'-that;: man v' 1 Eo-called'i-sp'iiltualist med lurn6 We re frauda,' but'he-denied that' a r—y- W;° ( ?r of the .falsehood of itself' .-.'Sniriutalism meant a certain philosophy of- Ih4'; imiverse ™a a, 9 ell-ef J Tthat;-C9nsfciqushess.was the underl ym& p'nn'ciplev.-ah'd'that'it survived of those- who : htibV .died s bein°-( abls to commumcafe p^iile'herfon earth .JJ'Wer, certain circumstances through mediums. It was, he^.said.-.rmuch^easier to behev-m Spiritualism iii view if the" teaching-qt. rnqderh ■science, ffian it ..used t6 be. He.cbuld/not conceive of this' planet as bein K :.the<'cinljr '6ne'-ou^-wliich there was . life..'.-''- ~: '.:- '•■;:-,-... > ;' , f^: Be^ett" declared 'that .the so-cklled-.-spirit photographs- df' Sir--C6nan Uoyle were frauds,.-and he asked whr ?rt' Vl'a^i I,., alleged . communications fthrquffh^; ,' With c; jjreat- i^Ae • .who. had died; took; on '; the', imperfections of; the medium,: speaking. for" the pipsf.part senseless .twaddle.biif English and worsei grammar..- There: was not a single medium who had not at some-time or other been, found-euilty of trickery He r preferre'd.tp_adopt".the" belief p.f the on;.the questiori, orimijiortalitv, apd'sar.that. he,did;.no£-'.knbwi-" -Moaern Snintualism;. h e ;saidv ■ wa'srbuilfc r O n a ifraud::; For- qne'.scieptia't' of note''-whb was a supporter of Spiritualism', -'hel'^uia name six who were opposed to it.; '