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:erinof;he , is is ins ichiy,us)urn\t!hi-sontedso3ut}T8t' Ofnly . at »plo wn3 SOtry f it likeood of ill a ufci-stands for interests much more vital than tbs recovery of Jerusalem.A Champion of Ghosts,W. T. Stead, who is always with the under dog in the fight, stands forth ready to break a lance in defense of ghosts. His Review of Reviews for December will contain an assortment of well authenticated ghost stories. Wherever strange appearances and experiences have been, encountered by any person who is willing to sign his name as evidence of veracity, Mr. Stead invites this individual to write down the story of them and send it to him for publication.Mr. Stead does not say whether the appearance he classes under the head of ghosts are apparitions, hallucinations or even real spirits. He inclines to think the apparitions cannot all bo’ accounted for under the head of hallucinations, but eveu where they can thus bo accounted for they will be n valuable contribution to psychic science, such contributions as Mr. Stead thinks the world stands greatly in need of at this stage of its progress. Ho himself is thoroughly in earnest in the belief that there are genuine appearances and experiences outside the realm of the material senses. As to those who laugh to scorn these apparitions as lies and delusions, Mr. Stead characterizes their amusement as the “laughter of fools whicli the wise man of old compared to the crackling of thorns under a pot.”A ■ ii n 2 A ti4-
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Carroll Sentinel
Carroll, Iowa, US
Fri, Nov 20, 1891
Page 11
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