CELESTIAL JOKERS MAY BE REALITY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17905, 22 July 1926, Page 4

CELESTIAL JOKERS MAY BE REALITY.

PRIEST QUESTIONS PET TENETS OF SPIRITUALISTS. («.. irrioodg) LONDON, January 20. "If we could only be sure that those we were communicating with are those they are purported to be, spiritualism would have much, perhaps, to be said in its favour," the Rev Father Herbert Thurston, S.P., declared in an address at a meeting of the University of London Catholic Society on May It was evident, he said, that many of the communicating intelligences—whatever they were—were attempting to deceive humanity or to play tricks on it, or perhaps were actuated by some little spite. He himself had never been convinced that there were not other intelligences besides the blessed, the angels, and those in purgatory in the spiritual world. What happened, for instance, to children who died at birth? Did they form a sort of celestial kindergarten? lie believed that their intelligence having once been created must go on developing. Yet, perhaps, some of them who were mischievous or a little freakish might be interfering with these spiritual messages. At any rate, spiritualism was highly dangerous, though he admitted good might occasionally be done b>- it.