NO PROFIT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16672, 27 February 1925, Page 9

NO PROFIT.

DOYLE’S SPIRITUALISM. LONDON, Feb. 17.—“1 have never made a shilling out of my lectures on Spiritualism,’' says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, replying to Mr. Clive Maskclyno’s inquiry as to the profits of his American and Australian tours. “Every penny above expenses has been given to the cause. 1 I left my Australian profits for missionary work there. It is well-known to Spiritualists that I have never taken anything for myself. On the contrary, I lose thousands of pounds yearly through the diminution of literary output. “The Spiritualis.ts’ complaint; against the Mnslcelyne family is timt for three generations they have made money by producing parodies on phyehie phenomena. These things arc too important, too vital, to be subjected to public mockery.” A DIRECT CHALLENGE. Mr. Maskelyne, in reply, challenges > C; ir A. Conan Dovle to prove the truth of spiritualism. “During the last decade,” he says, “I have lost four relatives. If you can ('liable me to communicate with them I will believe, and thousands will follow mv conversion.”