SPIRIT MESSAGES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9670, 17 April 1923, Page 3

SPIRIT MESSAGES.

FAMOUS K.Cl’s BELIEF

COMMUNICATION WITH DEAD

REMARKABLE TESTIMONY.

A remarkable story is told by Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.C., in an introduction he has*' written to “Guidance from Beyond” by Miss K. Wingfield, just published in London.

The book is composed of selections from automatic writings by the authoress. ,

Sir Edward, who is a friend of Miss Wingfield, says“ One Sunday about 30 years ago, I was at my sisI ter’s house at Hampton, and Miss K. [ Wingfield was there, and, as it happened, had been giving an exhibition of her powers as an automatic writer. She was a great personal friend of my siter’s, and was at the time staying in the bouse. My sister took mo' on ■ one side and implored me to test these messages for anyself. What to ask I did not know; but, putting my hand in my breast’popket, searching for a piece of paper on which to write something _ I pulled out a letter which I had received at my chambers in the Temple the preceding day. “As if inspired an idea came to me. I folded up the letter in its envelope, and then placed the whole in another envelope, which I sealed with a seal I. always carried. There was no writing on the outside of the envelope so scaled, and I handed it to my sister to hand to Miss Wingfield, with the spoken question: ‘Ask her where is the writer of the letter contained in that envelope.’ Please note s<?x is not mentioned, and my sister did not know who was the writer.

“After a considerable delay the automatic writing brought the message: ‘The writer of that letter is dead.’ Wishing to clinch it, I asked another question: “When and where did the writer die?’ , “Again the answer came back: ‘Ho died yesterday in South Africa.’ 1 bad mentioned no sex and given no indication of locality, and the answer, though curious, seemed ridiculous. .

“My sister asked if I wished to put any more questions, and I said ‘No.’ I never told her any of the facts till some weeks later, and 1 went away, returning to London on that evening

“To say that I was puzzled is to pub it mildly. This letter which i had received on the Saturday preceding the Sunday on which 1 asked the question was written by my brother in South Africa some threo weeks prior to the date of its rreceinfc. I had not told my sister of this letter, and she could nob know of its existence. ,

“The third succeeding Saturday afterwards I received a letter (dated the Saturday immediately preceding the Sunday on which I had asked the question at Hampton) from Archdeacon Gaul, in which ho writes: ‘I little thought when I wrote yon last mail that I should have to tell you that your brother was found dead in his bed this morning. * “Of course I could relate many other instances and experiences that have occurred since, but for me this was enough. “I was, and am, convinced that there is an existence beyond so-called death, and that there are means of communication between them and. us.”