MESSAGE FROM MR STEAD

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 20 May 1912, Page 2

MESSAGE FROM MR STEAD

Mrs Charles Bright, editor of the Harbinger of Light, which is the organ of the Spiritualists in Australia, lias, published a "communication" received, she states, from Mr \V. T. Stead si:iut the loss of the Titanic. Spiritualist all over the world are mourning verj deepiy the death of one of their most able defenders, and Mrs Bright maliet> a graceful acknowledgment of his services before proceeding to describe tne nature of his communication. "There has occurred," she writes, "in connection with Mr Stead's transition one of those remarkable and unsought-for experiences which come unexpectedly in the eaa-ly morning when my spiritual and bodily powers are being replenished for the work that is set before me to do. .1 waa conscious of a gx-eat upliftment, and the words 'Stead is here; came clearly to my spiritual ears." Then the lady was enjoined to deliver a message wnich should "let the world know something of the joy of the new-found world." "Just tell them," the spirit is neported to have said, "that I am full of delight at my new surroundings; full of delight that this world is even more full of joy and ecstasy than I had essay ed to tell people in earth life; so full oi joy that I want to wipe the tears frorr. eyes that weep through this terrible disaster;' so tun of joy that I want to take doubt (from every uowncast soul so full of delight that I can help my beloved even more than when on earth 'My, affairs will go on all right. Foi myself it was a swift passage, a short despairing time —chaos, confusion, only ■to find myself lifted out of it by loving spirits all around me. . . . The people s£ill on earth aij© in a fog rushing after what is of no value, and only those can be happy who get attuned to spiritual things. I can .write through you so easily." With the exception of the concluding sentence the message is quite inspiriting, and ;(£urte the sort of thing that might have been expected. But it is really very unkind of the distinguished journalist not to have seized the j opportunity to throw fresh light on the tragedy of the Titanic. Poor Mrs Bright! Perhaps some other medium will rectify her omission.