What Would You Say to a Sorrowing Mother?
What Would You Say to a Sorrowing Mother? is an article published in the Weekly Dispatch on 3 october 1915.
Below is the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle opinion only. For all opinions see article image.
What Would You Say to a Sorrowing Mother?
Messages from Eminent People to Those Bereaved by the War.
Has Mankind any means of bestowing real comfort upon the hundreds of thousands of men and women whom the great war has afflicted with sorrow? How can true consolation be offered to the world in tears? If there be any balm and solace in our religion or philosophy, is it not the bounden duty of all who have themselves received these gifts to pass them on to their fellow creatures who are now so much in need of consolation?
These questions have given rise to an extremely interesting consensus of opinion from eminent men and women which appears in the current number of the International Psychic Gazette. The editor put the following question to leading representatives in religious, semi-religious, philosophical, and humanitarian walks of life:—
- What would you say in response to the anguished cry of the bereaved mother's heart, "Where is my boy and how fares it with him?"
- What would you say it you gathered around you in a room a group of fathers, mothers, wives, sisters, and lovers who have lost their dear ones and who are looking towards you with confidence for a message that will assuage their grief and give them calm assurance and comfort in place of doubt and perplexity?
The following are some of the replies received:—
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, LL.D., the creator of "Sherlock Holmes" and many famous novels:
I fear I can say nothing worth saying. Time only is the healer.
