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From Pat Deveney's database:
Courriere, La.
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Messenger, The.
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| La Courriere V1 N1 Jun 1915 | |
| La Courriere V1 N2 Jul 1915 | |
| La Courriere V1 N3 Aug 1915 | |
| The Messenger V1 N4 Sep 1915 | |
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La Courrière, despite its French title, is an English-language Spiritualist paper, and a devotional rather than an investigative one. Its centre is the seance room — mediums, trance, materializations, the spirit world and communion with the dead — but the frame around it is Christian throughout, and one issue reprints George Fox on the love of God that cannot be expressed in words, on being brought to the very ocean of darkness and death, and on the eternal power that carried him through and afterwards shook the nation and its priests. A Spiritualist paper quoting Fox on the inner light is claiming a lineage. Alongside the devotional matter run the narratives the movement collected: one account has a sceptical visitor announce that she will find out the trick, take another woman's place, and no sooner carry off the candle than she hears a noise below and, hurrying down, finds it has moved to the kitchen and is drumming on the inside. Robert Ingersoll's name recurs, as it does in every American religious paper of these years, because he was the unbeliever everyone had to answer. A thin vocabulary of demonstration and success drifts across the top, but the paper's weight is devotional Christian Spiritualism. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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