Word: spiritualists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unhappy Medium. Coates has hired a lie-detector expert, who weeds out phonies trying to get on the program, sometimes uses the detector on the program itself. Once, after showing infrared pictures of seances run by a spiritualist, he gave the lie-detector test to the medium. She flunked it miserably. Says Coates: "In stead of turning people against her, we got many letters saying it was a terrible thing to do to that poor woman. We also used the detector on a so-called jet-propulsion expert who claimed that he had flown in a flying saucer from White...
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...
Some of those present seemed to feel that the spiritualist churches could use a bit more religion. "One of the vulnerable points of spiritualism," cried the Rev. Helen Graham of West Bloomfield, N.Y., thumping a Bible, "is that it doesn't use this book enough." The Rev. Clarence Haas of Warren, O. also looked to the Good Book, "I know Jesus Christ was a spiritualist," he told the group, "even...