FROM THE SPRIT WORLD.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 116, 14 May 1912, Page 6

FROM THE SPRIT WORLD.

"COMMUNICATION" FROM MR STEAD. ; Mrs Charles Bright, editor of fchn Harbinger of Light, which is t\se organ" of the Spiritualist1* in Australia., has published' a.""communication" received, she states, from Mr IW. T. Stead since the loss of the Titanic.-'' Spiritualists all over" the world aire mourning very deeply the death of one of their most able de- | fenders, "'aTnd Mrs Bright ■ rn.-i.kea a graceful acknowledgment of his: seiv vices before proceeding to describe the nature; of his communication. ('TH<?re has oocurred," she writes. in connection' with 'Mr Ste-id'.s j ig ijiryjnsitfon' .:.'*fp*i' ; of j'those. .i;emarkai)le ! l^ndi■,: ; '«nsouightr.for-, viexperienG^s wlitcj.i:| "| dome •uiioxpecte'dly.in the. eairly morn7.j I iiig "wlion n Ty. Bpiratu.;l and '■bpd'l-y j 1 powers'■■aivj-b'tiing replenishscl for the | ■ work'that is tet before me to do. . . , I'was o&n«?it>u.s of a greti.t upliftrnon". j j and the words 'Ste:jd is here' ciroe . '■ clearly to my spiritual 'eai*s." Xiion j ■ the lady was enjoined to deliver .1 ' I message which should "let the woiM . , know something of the joy of th^ ' new-found world." "Just tell them, ' f the spirit is reported to have s«us, ; ; "that I am full of delight at my r\t-yr , "'surroundings; full of r3'elight that tliic i . world is even more full of joy and ' ecstasy than I Lad essayed to t:-!l • people in earth life; so full of jiy

f tluit I want to wipe the tears fsxm S oyes that weaj) through this terrible* I•; dissLsber; so fnil of joy ; that?l, wa-nt to« take doubt from every downcast jjonl; so full or delight that I can help U/y : beloved even more than when 'n»'" .earth. My afiaii-s will go on all )"'ght. For myself it «ias a svriit pas- ■; sage, a short, despairing time-^chaos. i confusion, only to find v- myself ii'v:.;•(! ■| out of it by loving spirits all around ; me. . . . The people still on earth ■! are in a fog rushing alter what is -jf ; no value, and only those can be happy who get attuned to spiritual thingsI can write through you so easily."' , With the exception of th© concluding: sentence the message is quite inspiriting, &nd quite the sort of thing, that might have been expetced. Bus it is really very unkind of the distinguished journalist not to have soizedi the opportunity to throw fresh, light on the tragedy of the Titanic.