SPIRITUALIST BAN
GROUPS CALLED SINISTER The spiritualists of New York City were warned recently against the lore of the yogi, the pseudo-seer, the Egyptian crystal-gazer, and the unlicensed medium. John Heiss, president of the General Assembly of Spiritualists, announced that his organisation had formed an educational bureau to equip the spiritualist missionary for his work and to fight the sinis ter doctrines of the fake practitioner. About 300 converts and orthodox believers listened attentively to an ad dress of the president, the Rev. Frederick A. Wiggin, of Boston, but their interest reached its climax when the Rev. Charles J. Morrow, message bearer from Buffalo, took the stand for a practical demonstration. Mr Morrow, who had predicted train wrecks in Montana, mergers, deaths, and cloudbursts, described himself to the audience as “a fat man with a jolly He said he bad communicated with Confucius, but on this occasion be confined himself to communication with the friends and relatives of those about him. He divined that certain members ot the audience wanted to be successful, that others had recently recovered from pneumonia, and that others still were extremely clairaudion hoar more than you see—but don’t we all, sometimes ?” Mr Morrow’s longest colloquy was with a man named G.H. The mes-sage-bearer cautioned Mr H. to treat his wife with more consideration, and told him he had a scar on one of his legs. “ You wasn’t in an automobile accident,” said Mr Morrow, “ but you was a little care]ess_ somehoVv; do you understand me, friend?” Mr Heiss, who is also pastor of the First Spiritualist Church of Jamaica, Queens, stressed the point that the convention’s chief aim was to outlaw fake spiritualism. “ In the business meetings so far, he said, “ we’ve taken steps to raise the qualifications for licensed mediums and to stiffen the examination for spiritualism teachers and lecturers. The now educational bureau will take care of that in most of the United States and Canada. The examinations are strict and standardised. The lecturer must have a knowledge, for instance, of the philosophy of spiritualism and comparative religion.’ Mr Wiggin, pastor of the Unity Spiritualist Church of Boston, a former Unitarian minister, supported Mr Heiss in this stand. “ Don’t seek the Egyptian or occult article —it’s spurious,” he said. “ Don’t go to yogis, yamas, gamas, and other ‘ amas.’ ”
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Evening Star, Issue 21499, 25 August 1933, Page 11
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385SPIRITUALIST BAN Evening Star, Issue 21499, 25 August 1933, Page 11
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