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nearly ended. Even then, the pace was not slackened. When he
learned, last fall, that his active service was done, there was grief
only because he could no longer be useful.
The approach of death was welcomed. Father knew that he
had done his best to· carry a message to the world, and he was
concerned only that a successor should continue the search. As a
son, I can regret that he had a mission in the world. Had it been
otherwise, he might still be alive. But as a man, I would not have
it otherwise. Nor would father have had it otherwise. He believed
that each man has his work in the world to J>Earform. He
chose his task, and to its completion gave all that he had. His
race was well run.
TESTIMONY OF A CO-WORKER.
By GERTRUD£ OGDEN TUBBY.
Acting Secretary, A. S. P. R.
In the year 1906, in the Unitarian Church at Montclair, N.J.,
it was my privilege to listen for the first time to a voice now
grown so familiar to my ear, as Professor James Hervey Hyslop
delivered what was to me the most fascinating scientific lecture
to which I had ever listened. The precision and detail of his illustration
and the cogency of his argument were all that the most
rigid scientific requirements could demand, and exceeded in clearness
and point even the monumental report of F. W. H. Myers,
in his tremendous two-volume " Human Personality and Its Survival
of Bodily Death," with which I was already familiar. Professor
Hyslop at once and forever, so far as I was concerned,
swept away the" suQc;onscious" argument of Thompson J. Hudson
on which I had fed an inquiring mind ten years earlier, while
still a girl in high school, for want of better food. He met the
demand of an insatiate appetite for the psychology pf the psychic,
which had gone a-starving through the four years of college work
in science, entered upon with high hopes of sustenance in this
psychological field and concluded without a crumb.
From that day my purpose was enlisted in the interest of the
psychology of the psychic, and my determination made to join the
new American Society then in process of organization. In 1907
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