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Loved ones from the spirit world hovered over Washington, D.C. to be in on the ninth annual convention of the Federation of Spiritual Churches and Associations, representing 365 spiritualist churches and some 15 "parent bodies." Last week at the Shoreham Hotel, the bright-eyed priests and priestesses of spiritualism wound up five days of speeches, seances and healing sessions, during which they compared notes on materializations and levitations, automatic writings and unfriendly state laws. For relaxation, the 200-odd delegates took in sightseeing tours and a weekend dinner-dance or rested their corporeal manifestations in the lobby and read...
According to the federation's president, the Rev. Vernon R. Cummins, pastor of the First Spiritual Christian Church of San Antonio, Texas, most spiritualists believe in six basic principles: 1) A Supreme Being, 2) the "soul of man as the Son of God," 3) Jesus Christ as the "greatest demonstrator" of spiritualism (but not the only begotten Son of God), 4) "communication between the seen and unseen worlds," 5) "salvation by character development-not by the Blood of the Lamb," 6) "eternal progression''-i.e., no death. Beyond these tenets, spiritualist speculation ranges untrammeled. Chief current controversy...
Both Protestants and Roman Catholics, says President Cummins, often come to Sunday night spiritualist services-especially Protestants, "because it gives them someone to talk...
...talk to when the convention's seances were under way. The Rev. Ernest Gleason got a message for a young man in the audience from a "tall and slender" lady "who is putting her arms around your neck." The Rev. Marie Sykes, 68, of Los Angeles' Central Spiritualist Church brought a woman messages from a spirit named "Blossom." One woman was ominously advised to get her "papers in readiness...
When the London Psychic News revealed last year that the late Mackenzie King had been a practicing spiritualist for 25 years (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950), most Canadians put it down as one more quirk in the enigmatic private life of their veteran Prime Minister. But Blair Fraser, an editor of Maclean's magazine, wanted to know more about King's well-kept secret. This year he went to Britain, where King's spiritualist activities centered, to dig for information. Last week Fraser's findings were published in Maclean...