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Periodical: The Sermon

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Sermon, The.

The New Canadian Monthly on New Theology and Psychic Research / Devoted to New Theology and Psychic Research.
Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Prayer, Prophecy, Psychography and Psychic Phenomena
1899-1902
Toronto, Canada. Language: English.
Publisher: Sermon Publishing Co.. Succeeded by: Reason
1/1, September 1899-1902. 25 cents a year, 16 pp.

The Banner of Light, September 23, 1899, describes this as a "psychical monthly" and notes that Austin (1850-1932) had recently been tried for heresy and expelled by the Methodists. Austin later billed himself as "The Canadian Heretic." , See Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (Toronto, 1985), 68-84. The first issue announced that the journal "guaranteed" a circulation of 1500 and had obtained 500 subscriptions before publication. NSAC, Lily Dale.

Issues::Sermon Sep 1899
Topics:Automatic Writing and Channeling | Spiritualist Camp Meetings and Communities