1946

1946



May, 1946
                                                                                
[A Minister of the United Church wrote this testimonial in 1946.]

" ... I know the work that Mrs. Hamilton has in hand at the present time (May , 1946) and have studied with some care the scripts which she has received through the hand of the psychic Dawn.

"Dawn was for a fairly long period the most powerful medium in the Glen Hamilton group.  During those year when they were obtaining materializations - which have been the most distinctive feature of their researches - she was constantly engaged in this work, going into trance, speaking for the main controls, and in many ways showing herself to be an exceptionally gifted medium.

"Like Dr. Hamilton's first medium, Elizabeth M. (Mrs. Poole), Dawn was of Scottish birth, of good character, a good wife and mother, but possessing a very elementary education, and wholly unread in all types of literature, including the psychical.  There is no reason to believe that at any stage in her life she had even a fragmentary acquaintance with the writings of such men as Lodge, Stead or Stevenson.  I cannot think that she would ever have attempted to read for herself any of their works.

"It is this that makes supremely wonderful the production of the things we find in these scripts.  Their range of thought, their literary form, and the writer's intimate acquaintance, in some cases, with certain books and poems, and the skill with which selected passages have been incorporated into the scripts, are features which simply cannot be associated with the mentality of the medium. I have had more or less continuous opportunities of estimating the range of Dawn's thinking, and have no hesitation in giving as my considered opinion, that these writings on a whole, are in every sense beyond her capacity so far as mental power is concerned.  In my judgment they constitute quite incontrovertible evidence of a process of inspiration.

"I am impressed, too, with what appears to be the fact that some of these writings constitute a new phenomenon: the re-issuing, in modified paraphrase form, of parts of earlier communicated writings, with a view, apparently, to fresh emphasis on their truth, is something I have not heard of till now.  Such phenomena will, I am sure, prove highly significant to many thinkers, and make more rational our concept of the survived personality - a personality which in many instances would appear to retain a natural interest in our physical existence and in aiding man's progress upward toward knowledge, goodness and beauty, and thus toward God ..."


                                        (Signed) "W.  R.  Wood"