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Periodical: The National Messenger

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

National Messenger, The.
1895
Washington, D.C. Language: English.
Editor: H.D. Barrett.
Corporate author: National Spiritualist Association
1/1, June 1895

This was the organ of the National Spiritualist Association, begun in 1893, the predecessor of the National Spiritualist Association of Churches. It was devoted to furthering the position of the NSA in the then on-going conflict among spiritualists over the wisdom of a forming a national organization. NSAC Lily Dale.

Other Sources:
Issues:National Messenger N1 Jun 1895
Claude-Generated Themes:   National Messenger was an organ of organized American Spiritualism in the mid-1890s, reading less like a séance record than the working bulletin of a national association. Its pages report on newly established headquarters within sight of the U.S. Capitol, plead the perennial shortage of funds, and lay out the parliamentary machinery for chartering local and state Spiritualist societies under a national body — the world of the National Spiritualist Association, founded in 1893. Mediumship and its public 'demonstration' run throughout, though here the emphasis falls on institution-building: constitutions, committees, and the knitting-together of local work into a movement. It is a document of Spiritualism at the moment it tried to organize itself into a durable church.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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