Fifty Years a Medium – Chapter 6, 8/14 by Estelle Roberts

That was not my only experience in last week’s investigations, although after that almost incredible sitting with Mrs. Roberts, the others pale away in my memory . . .
I had a séance with another medium, Lilian Bailey. To her I took another bereaved mother from Birmingham, Mrs. Ethel Wright.

Mrs. Wright lost her five-year-old daughter nine months ago – and the medium told her that the child died ten months ago.
Mrs. Bailey also described the child quite fairly and added: ‘She wants you to give her love to her daddy and to tell him that she is still his “little sweetheart”.’

It was true that the child’s father often used this phrase to the little girl.
I began this investigation a complete sceptic. Until last week I saw nothing to make me change my mind.

After last week’s tests I am no longer a sceptic. I am completely mystified, simply because I cannot hope to explain how this had happened to me and to those mothers.
The question is whether grief-stricken parents can find in Spiritualist experience comfort and solace after the death of their beloved children.

Before they went to the séances, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Pugh and Mrs. Wright, were three bereaved mothers, living in the shadow of their sorrow.
But afterwards their whole aspect changed, as if by magic. Gone was the strain and the tension. They chatted brightly to each other, exchanging anecdotes about their children, their minds at rest.

Not all Spiritualists have the power of Mrs. Estelle Roberts and Mrs. Bailey. There are, I am sure, racketeers and charlatans who will try to take your money and give you nothing but a conjuring show.
Yet, if you will bare this warning in mind, then I shall not hold you back from seeking comfort in Spiritualism