MR TROLOVE'S ADMISSION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18908, 5 November 1929, Page 9

MR TROLOVE'S ADMISSION.

To the Editor. Dear Sir, —Having elicited from Mr Trolove a frank admission that he imposes no test whatever on the “spirits” that converse with him at seances, but simply accepts as gospel whatever they tell him (or what he ii agines they tell him) ; that he is foolish enough to regard them as the entities they claim to be, without a suspicion that he is being imposed upon, it is hardly necessary to bother further to continue a controversy with one who exhibits so little of a business man’s shrewdness and caution, especially in a matter of such moment. I trust he will be more at home in his new job at New Brighton. It is just possible I’ll run across him there yet. I wonder if his spirit “friends” will “tip him the winl*” as to who I am! More than likely he’ll accost the wrong person and tax him with being “C. in D.” What if some joker were to impose on his credulity in that matter, too! That would be a good joke against our old friend Peter. . . Might I have your permission, sir, to correct the wrong idea one correspondent had regarding my knowledge of spiritism? He said I knew nothing about the facts of the matter. Some twenty-one years ago I lived in the house of a member of that cult, and she had seance meetings in her parlour, to which I was repeatedly invited. It was too good a chance to be ignored, and I am one who always likes to know facts at first hand. What I heard and saw at these seances enables me to ' form a quite unbiased opinion of what takes place; but this is as far as I may expect you to allow me to write on a subject, discussion on which has been stopped. I just wished to let that - correspondent know he was mistaken in his supposition that I had been *= writing in ignorance of what I was j discussing. . . Thanking you, sir, inanticipafaon.

and also for the space you so generously allotted the many participants in the late discussion.—l am, etc.,