LIFE AFTER DEATH?

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1928, Page 7

LIFE AFTER DEATH?

CLERGYMAN’S EXPERIENCE . TOUCHED BY DEAD SON (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.* (Recd. October 13, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 12.

The Rev. F. C. Spurr, a Baptist clergyman and an ex-president of the National Free Church Council, in an address at Leamington, “Does death end all?” told of a remarkable experience.

He said that he sent’ his son, aged eight years, and his mother to the seaside for a holiday in Lincolnshire. He then went to a cinema, where at 4.45 p.m. he felt his hand touched. Continuing, he said: “I saw my son in the seat next to me. I felt upset and went home to bed. There was a fearful thunderstorm, during which there came a telephone message stating that my son had been drowned. At the inquest, I‘learned that my .son entered the water at 4.20 p.m., and expired at 4.45 p.m. I tell this story as an honest Englishman. Twenty-five times since, I have had absolute evidence that he is alive and well oh the other side. Of course, we cannot make a religion of this sort of thing. If I thought that man, with his folly and sins, was the best the universe could do, I would willingly die cursing with my last breath.”