ALLEGED SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATIONS. [To ens ED/TOR or THE " Sescratm."3
Sta,—After reading the letters in your last number, I took up Lady Glenconner's Earthen Vessel and opened it at p. 143, where she describes the tests made with the advertisement columns of the Times as " a scheme planned to still further obviate the possibility of the operation of telepathy," &c.; and decided to apply her message, recorded on October 11th, 1920, to the number of the Times published to-day. The message runs: " Now in the Times of to-morrow, on the front page, in the second column about half-way down, you will find Stephen's name. (1) Now close to it is a name suggesting a place that Bim knew very well, and liked tremendously when he was on the Earth-plane. (2) Now in the first column, near the top, are the names of two people, names in the family, both of whom have passed on and are with Dim on the Other Side. One has often been mentioned in sittings. (3) Now in the third column, he thinks within two inches of the top, are words that may form a message for Bim, a message that he says ` he would have liked to send to you on the 22nd '; and don't forget, he says, it's only a few words, because some other words close to it would spoil it. (4) Going back to the first column, there is the Lord's name, lower part of the first column, and the name of a close relation of his who has passed over. Both names are close together, within half an inch."
In the Times to-day, Easter Monday, I find : (1) half-way down the second column, " St. Stephen's, Cofte Road." Here is " Stephen's name," while " College " at once suggests to a Wykehamist the school at which E. W. Tennant had been educated, which presumably he " liked tremendously." (3) At the top of the first column are the " Births," in which many Christian and surnames appear daily. To-day the list begins with " Alexander," which Lady Glenconner claims in her book as satisfying the last test; on the thirteenth line is " Wynd- ham," the name of Lady Glenconner's family. (4) In the first inch of the third column I find : "Wanderer miserable surprised and grieved; your last message puzzling; would be grateful for proof; sometimes wonder if trust is abused." I suggest that the words I have italicised form a message which the other words would spoil. In the second inch of this column I find : " He rose from the dead. After having died for us on the Cross—that our sins, though they be scarlet, could be as white as snow. He rose again and has gone to prepare a place for us. Are you fitted to occupy a place in the Kingdom of God? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved and fit to dwell with Him and His Angels." (5) The lower half of the first column consists normally of death notices, in which many names appear. I have been unable to find—what is apparently re- quired—the name "Edward," either to-day or in the Times of October 12th, 1920. In both cases it appears in the upper half of the column. But in last Saturday's Times I find the name "Edward 's three times in this half-column, in proximity, re- spectively, to. " Alfred " (Lord Glenconner's brother-in-law, Alfred Lyttelton), " Percy " (Lady Glenconner's father, or her nephew Percy Wyndham, who married Lord Glenconner's niece), and " Charles " (Lord Glenconner's father, or his nephew, Charles Lister). Saturday's paper also satisfies test (1) by Stephen's surname " Tennant," test (2) by " St. Cross Road, Winchester," or by two Border places, " Jed- burgh" and "Bowden," and test (4), in the first inch of the third column, by the inscription, to a brother Grenadier of E. W. T., "Et lux perpetua luceat ei," or better still by "Amavimus. Amamus. Amabimus."
It seems probable, in view of the nature of the first three columns of the Times, that similar results could be obtained daily, without the least attempt at collusion in Printing House
Square.—I am, Sir, &c., C. K. Scorr MONCRIEFF. Savile Club, W., Easter Monday.
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