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GOSPEL STORY FROM A NEW

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STRIKING PLAY.

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MEDIUMS.

"BIAGICIANS'" METHODS

EXPLAINED.

TEST FOR A HOUDINI.

men.

GIRL FRIENDS.

BUT, WHAT VIOLENT DISLIKES.

ALLEGED WITTICISM.

Some favourite tricks of

"They love each other like girl| striking plays ever staged in Japan mediums, was the title of a lantern friends," says a friend of mine came to an end in December last. lecture given by Mr. Harry Price, with a knowing look, whenever he This is "The Christ," a dramatien-the honorary director of the Na wants to describe the violent dis- tional Laboratory of Paychical Re-like existing between any two tion of some of the leading events search, at Queen's Gate Hall, on In the life of Christ.

January 24. The object of the lec- I always smile. politely at this Written by a non-Christian Jan- ture was to show how difficult it alleged witticism, but the poor anese and acted by non-Christians, would be for charlatans to produce man has no idea of the impolite- it, nevertheless, deals reverently their fraudulent

ness of my feelings. manifestations

It is not for me to bring him and sympathetically with the under the modern test conditions

a few imposed at the psychical laboratory to the feminine. If this know- up-to-date in matters pertainingį Gospel story, which, with minor exceptions, it follows closely. It was evident that Mr. Price did ledge of the opposite sex is so anti- It seems that Koryoku Sato, its not approach his subject from the quated as this, I am sure it is author, once saw the famous Paa-point of view of an unbeliever in through no fault of his own. however, as were the actors and the or their power to produce inexplic- women wore whalebone and a lot sion Play at Oberammergau. Good, the existence of genuine mediuma

He probably remembers when staging there, Christ, he thought, able manifestations, for after tell- of hair perched insecurely upon was made to appear too weak and ing of the trickery resorted to by the tops of their heads. Those effeminate. He determined, there-one famous medium, he described were the days when females hug- fore, to produce a similar play in as genuine the manifestation ged each other, poured out their Japanese, based on his own con-one of her seances, when a white secrets into each other's ears, ception of the Messiah and of the hand holding a bell appeared be and kept their own particularly other leading characters, emphasis-hind her head while her own hands "bosom friend" as they kept to Some their husbands-and in some in- ing in particular, the wonderful love were 'perfectly" controlled. of this Saviour of the world for critics might be disposed to be stances no doubt, even more so. mankind and showing His maniy lieve that this could only be

Terrible Quarrels. strength of character and majestic cepted as genuine because no me- personality. In so far as his inter-thod by which the medium could The more violent the "friend- pretation the Central Figure is produce that effect had been dis- ship" happened to be, the more concerned, he has succeeded ad-covered, but that was not the lee-violent was the inevitable break. mirably, though there may be some turer's view.

Then Georgeana and Edwina, or who might take exception to his

Sleight of hand and conjuring whoever they were, would find treatment of some of the other tricks were, he said, responsible for themselves practically bereft of Gospel characters,

many of the frauds that had been feminine companionship for the Mary Magdalene, for instance, is perpetrated throughout the ages time being, because all the other shown as being quite incapable, by magicians and other people women they know were so very until the final scene at the Sepul- claiming psychic powers. He show-busy being bosom friends with chre on the Resurrection morning, ed the title page of published con- each other.

At

4C-

of distinguishing between spiritual fessions of a necromancer in Tudor But, nowadays, when we have and physteul love. Her sudden days and said, incidentally, that the so many fresh interests, life is so realisation of this difference is library of the Society for Paychical full of things to do, and things to trikingly shown, however, in the Research contains five thousand read and see, that the bosom final scene when Christ speaks to volumes dealing with every form of friend is no longer necessary. Be- her in the garden.

trickery and fraud. Spiritualism cause, at best, she was only a had always been saturated with stop-gap and a kill-time, An Unconventional Mary. fraud, and while learned scientists We do not mourn her passing, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, is could score by applying test by for two women who spend practi- also depicted in rather a different means of scientific apparatus to cully the whole of their leisure way from the usually accepted ver- pauudo-psychic phenomena, they time together are apt to slide into sion, for she is shown as a gentle, were apt in other respects to be as a very narrow groove, having but rather querulous old woman, credulous as any layman.

none but their own and each whose motherly love makes her try

cther's opinions and ideas, and caring for nobody else's.

Safety in Numbers.

When one person had discovorod to dissuade her Son from exposing a fine new way of duping the public Himself to such constant dangers.as for instance the Welsh woman.

The

conception of these two who professed to live for more than; characters, though not strictly in accordance with the Gospel story, is understandable, and, being that of a non-Christian, is of particular interest.

a year without eating or drinking The crowd of friends-acquain- and who kept up the fraud success-tances some would call them fully because she was supplied with that we have to-day helps to food placed in a concealed panel in broaden our outlook upon life, if her bed-he or she was always fol- it does nothing else. Each has The principal part, played by lowed by successful imitators. He her own particular opinions and Shojiro Sawada, one of the leading described the methods by which her own mode of expressing them. actors in Japan, was magnificently seers can read messages that have When you hear them expressed done, and the make-up was perfect, been written on small pieces of but a dozen or so times in a year, tallying in every respect with the paper although the paper apparent they have an air of novelty that popularly accepted appearance asily remains folded while they read. is quite refreshing. depicted in pieturos and carved That is done by means of one Acquaintances like these are dummy paper and by "palming" never "stale." You don't get In all there were five acts of successively the ones which tired of them. And if you should twelve scenes, the most striking of messages are written,

conceive a dislike for any of them, which, in order of sequence, wore

why you just drift apart natural- the dance of Salome before Herod

ly, and there's no harm done.

figures of Christ.

The Cabinet Trick.

TRY THEM TO-NIGHT Once you have used Pinkettes,

and his wife, the Last Supper, the A description of the means by If you must have a "bosom trial before Pontius Pilate, the road which the cabinet. trick is worked friend" then why not choose a to Golgotha, and the Crucifixion and the medium, apparently bound man for the purpose, instead of a itself.

too tightly to move her hands, can woman? You can never quarrel The last named was particularly ring bells and fling things about, so bitterly; so painfully, or 80 impressive and wonderfully por- was followed by a demonstration. finally with a man as you can with trayed the dark, forbidding hill-Mr. Price seated himself on a stool one of your own sex. top, lit up by flashes of lightning, to which his hands and feet were with the three crosses set up on fastened with bandages knotted and the sky line; the Central Figure, sealed with sealing-wax.. Anum- naked except for a white loin cloth, ber of articles were placed at his with blood streaming from the feet, and then a screen was put pierced side; the two malefactors, in front of him. He threw the the one 'reviling Him and the other articles over the screen. The the dainty little laxatives, you will rebuking the reviler; the small screen was removed, and he was never go back to Salts, Oil, or silent group with the Blessed seen to be still tightly bound. Then drastic purgative pills, As gently Mother kneeling, at the foot of the half a dozen bangles were put at as nature Pinkettes dispel con- Cross, and the Roman apldiers his feet and the screen was re-stipation, regulate the liver, banish watching on, some of them showing placed. When it was removed in complete indifference while others two or three minutes the bangles are visibly moved. The dramatie were on his arms above his stil}} effect could not have been bettered. bandaged wrists. He did not ex-bilious attacks and sick headaches, The Last Supper was portrayed plain the details of the trick, but purify the breath, clear the skin. with equal fidelity to detail and in his lecture he said that it was Your chemist can supply them, or was secmingly based on the famous virtually impossible to tie a man post free, 60 cents the vial, from painting by Leonardo da Vinci, of with a single rope in such a way the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 60 Have which it was an almost exact re-that he could not remove and then Kiangse Road, Shanghai. production.

replace the rope. If instead of the Pinkettes always handy. rope a ball of floss silk were used he would be fooled, for while ho

Peter's Denial.

Peter's three-fold denial and his could escape from his bonds he subsequent penitence, and the ter- would not be able to get back to rible remorse of Judas, the inter- them. pratation of whose character from Another piece of information was start to finish was one of the out- that no materialising medium could standing things in the play, were stand being grabbed. Other tricks shown to great effect; but, with exposed were the methods of writ the possible exception of the Cruci- ing spirit messages on a slate, of fixion, the most arresting plece of touching people with spirit hands, acting occurred in the scene on and of making spirit photographs. the road to Golgotha, with the Some of these were so simple that crowds booing and jeering as he described them as “tricks you Christ, with the crown of thorns can play on your friends.

on His head, stumbles wearily 'along In conclusion, Mr. Price said he and finally collapses under the had nothing to say againat genuine weight of His cross.

mediums.

The soldiers start kicking Him and lashing Him with whips in order to make Him rise when out: Mr. D. S. Garden, a. New York from the crowd comes a burly journalist, successor to the present young countryman, who threatens editor of the Bangkok "Daily Mail," to fight them if they peralat in who is leaving for America early their cruelty. The soldiers laugh next May, was expected to arrive at his anger and say, "Why! Hein. Bangkok yesterday, Mr. Is only a common criminal; so what Garden left. San Francisco on does it matter? Back comes the Jan. 18 by the Dollar liner "Van angry. reply, "He may be only a Buren." criminal, but even criminals are

human.":

Historically there is nothing to

show that Simon the Cyrenian act-tuated solely and entirely by a de- ed quite in this manner, but there sire to see fair

play.

Is something very true to life in the These are but a few of the more action of this honest, burly young striking features in a play which, yokel, who knows nothing about of its kind, is probably unique by the condemned man or the reason reasons of its composition and pro- for His condemnation, and in ac duction by non-Christians.

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