Bunyan, I remember, added that he himself
was quite happy.
But, as I say, I never ask anybody to believe me; the
more so as I was once an absolute sceptic myself. As I
see it now, I was prejudiced. The mere fact that spiritual
seances and the services of a medium involved the payment
of money condemned the whole thing in my eyes. I did not
realize, as I do now, that these _medii_, like anybody
else, have got to live; otherwise they would die and
become spirits.
Nor would I now place these disclosures before the public
eyes were if not that I think that in the present crisis
they will prove of value to the Allied cause.
But let me begin at the beginning. My own conversion to
spiritualism came about, like that of so many others,
through the more or less casual remark of a Friend.
Noticing me one day gloomy and depressed, this Friend
remarked to me:
"Have you any belief in Spiritualism?"
Had it come from anyone else, I should have turned the
question aside with a sneer. But it so happens that I
owe a great deal of gratitude to this particular Friend.
It was he who, at a time when I was so afflicted with
rheumatism that I could scarcely leap five feet into the
air without pain, said to me one day quite casually:
"Have you ever tried pyro for your rheumatism?" One month
later I could leap ten feet in the air--had I been able
to--without the slightest malaise.
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