THE WARNING VOICE

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1929, Page 11

THE WARNING VOICE

MR BALDWIN’S EXPERIENCE. Mr Oliver Baldwin, Socialist M.P. for Dudley, at a meeting of the newlyformed Survival League at the Queen’s Hall, London, told the story of a war experience which led him to take an interest in Spiritualism. In 1918, he said, he was commanding a company of Irish Guards. It was a miserable day, raining and freezing, and they had been about 24 hours without relief of any kind. They were being shelled very heavily, and during a walk round with his runner, feelingvery tired, he sat down beside a sunken road with the runner by his side. Suddenly, in his right ear, he heard a voice saying quite clearly, “Go and see your company.” He looked round; there was no one in sight but his runner, and he had not heard the voice. He had a feeling the message did not come from this world. He got up and walked toward his company, but had not proceeded 30 yards when he heard a shell coming over. He turned round and saw his runner sitting where he had left him. He (Mr Baldwin) threw himself on his face, and the shell fell close by the runner, and nothing more was ever known of him.