| Main Performers | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Rev G Vale Owen,
Mrs St Clair Stobart,
Mr H Ernest Hunt,
Miss Estelle Stead,
Mr Earnest W Caten - speakers
George Craze - chairman |
| Performance Notes | "IN TOUCH WITH THE DEAD.
3,000 SPIRITUALISTS' TESTIMONY.
"I ask all those who are sure that they have been in touch with their dead to rise and to testify." This request by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Spiritualists assembled yesterday morning at the Service of Remembrance in the Albert Hall was responded to be about 3,000 people, men and women of all types. "I thank God there are so many," said Sir Arthur. "I will make a prophecy that, within five years' time, to such an appeal made from this platform there will not be one man or woman in the hall who will not rise."
Some 8,000 people were present in the Albert Hall, which had been engaged by the Spiritualists for their annual Armistice service. "We are not testifying to a faith, but to a fact," said Sir Arthur, and the great audience cheered in response. "We are here, in mid-London, and in cold blood, and pledge our honour, that this is true - we feel we are addressing those we have lost, and we hold out our hands to them, not as shadow beings in an unknown life, but just the same light-hearted, merry fellows we lost. They are not lost, however, but nearer to us than ever they were before."
(The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 1926) |