The Wanganui Chronicle THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936. MESSAGE PER MEDIUM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 13, 16 January 1936, Page 6

The Wanganui Chronicle THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936. MESSAGE PER MEDIUM

jyjHSSAGES through the instrument ol ;i spirituahsL nietlnui always gain a degree of publicity. It is more than probabl than a dis.wi viee is done by making them public. Anyone ca fake a spiritualistic message, for the same reason that nobod, can deny what someone else dreamed. The spiritualistic met sage is not capable of being checked up and it is possible tha it can involve others in a great deal of expense. The tnediui who proclaimed that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was alive 1 in all probability trading on the fact that the world is not ye provided with absolute proof of his death. This only adds 1 the anguish of Lady Kingsford Smith without helping matter at all. Spirit messages, apart from lucky guesses, have been dis proved time and time again. They are useless in the detection of crime and they never have added to the advances of scientili investigation. When oijc considers all the scientists who hav passed away, and who must havt>held some helpful informatioi which would have aided their colleagues in the particular fieh of endeavour in which they had laboured, it seems hardly con eeivable that if spirit messages were of any value at all som scientific information useful to the world would not have beci delivered. The spectacular prognostications of spirits couple' with their frequent exposure as frauds, should cause people t reject them bolus bolus.