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From Pat Deveney's database:
Austin Pulpit, The.
The Truth Shall Make You Free.--Jesus
1927--1932 Quarterly
Los Angeles, CA.
Language: English.
Editor: Benjamin Fish Austin, D.D.
Publisher: Austin Publishing Company.
Succeeds: The Sermon-->Reason-->Radium
1/1, 1927.
16 pp. Austin (1850-1933) was a Canadian educator and a prominent Methodist minister -- until he was expelled for his views on spiritualism and independent inquiry (which led him to deny hell and the divinity of Jesus). On him, see the notes under Reason, Radium, and The Sermon. This was the last of Austin's journals and carried his lectures and radio talks, a schedule of his lecture tours, a long article on "Fairies" in Germany and the mediumship of Elsa Arhheim of Berlin (who photographed the fairies after befriending a flower-elf), notes on Cecil B. D Mille's condemnation of atheism in the schools, and on "What Woodrow Wilson Thinks about Life, Death and Spirit Communication," etc. The journal heavily promoted books published by Austin's publishing company, back issues of his earlier journals, and Colored Stereopticon Views on human auras, views of Mars (based on Sara Weiss' Journeys to Mars), "Thot Forms," "Remarkable Spirit Photos," etc. University of Wisconsin and University of Waterloo.
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The Austin Pulpit was the sermon-organ of Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1932), the Canadian Methodist minister expelled for heresy who became a celebrated Spiritualist lecturer and New Thought publisher in Los Angeles. Issued by his Austin Publishing Co. around 1928–30, it printed his convention addresses to the California Spiritualist Association — optimistic 'creed' pieces affirming survival, mediumship and the 'Realms of Spirit,' and defending spirit-return against the animism arguments then debated at the Society for Psychic Research. Austin frames it all in a liberal Christian voice ('try the spirits'), while his signature New Thought vocabulary of demonstration, subconscious mind and success runs beneath the surface. It is best read as evangelistic Spiritualism inflected by mind-cure optimism.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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