SIR CONAN DOYLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14259, 16 November 1920, Page 5

SIR CONAN DOYLE.

SPIRITUALISM HIS MAIN CONCERN. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, Monday. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, interviewed, said he did not think he would write any more novels unless he could see a novel which would help the people to understand spiritualism. He did not feel inclined to discuss the present day tendencies of literature. During the past few years he had been reading up spiritualism so closely that he had no time to watch any other developments. Sir Conan Doyle to-night deli\ eted his opening lecture at the Town Hall, which was packed. t PEEP IMPRESSION CAUSED, (Received Tuesday noon.) - SYDNEY, This Day. Sir A. Conan Doyle, in a lecture dealing with his thirty-four years’ investigations .of spiritualism, declared that his title, any little .savings he ;had made, any literary reputation, and anything on earth save his honour and his family, were all as mud in the gutter as compared with the importance of this question. In support of the claims of spiritualism, he quoted the names of leading scientific men who supported it. He asked could they think these scientists were in conspiracy to delude the public. There was no question of mistake; either that or they were mad, unless in the other alternative the thing was true.

Dealing with the opposition of the churches he said instead of being met by vituperation from the pulpits, the spiritualists should have the right hand of Christianity given to them. Ho caused a deep impression by describing his own experiences, especially meeting with the spirit of his dead sou.