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The New Revelation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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would expect. It is instructive in this respect to
notice that Christ's reappearances to his disciples or
to Paul, are said to have been within a very few years
of his death, and that there is no claim among the
early Christians to have seen him later. The cases of
spirits who give good proof of authenticity and yet
have passed some time are not common. There is, in Mr.
Dawson Roger's life, a very good case of a spirit who
called himself Manton, and claimed to have been born at
Lawrence Lydiard and buried at Stoke Newington in 1677.
It was clearly shown afterwards that there was such a
man, and that he was Oliver Cromwell's chaplain. So
far as my own reading goes, this is the oldest spirit
who is on record as returning, and generally they are
quite recent. Hence, one gets all one's views from the
one generation, as it were, and we cannot take them as
final, but only as partial. How spirits may see
things in a different light as they progress in the
other world is shown by Miss Julia Ames, who was deeply
impressed at first by the necessity of forming a bureau
of communication, but admitted, after fifteen years,
that not one spirit in a million among the main body
upon the further side ever wanted to communicate with
us at all since their own loved ones had come over.
She had been misled by the fact that when she first
passed over everyone she met was newly arrived like
herself.

Thus the account we give may be partial, but still
such as it is it is very consistent and of
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