The Sermon [IAPSOP]

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.
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Issues::	Sermon Sep 1899
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Sermon is a Spiritualist periodical that carries mediumship and séance material inside a liberal-Christian devotional frame. Its pages describe seers 'whose eyes were opened' to the spiritual realms, angel friends, clairaudience and psychometry, while the sampled vocabulary — materialization, medium, séance, spirit return — marks it as squarely within the Spiritualist press. Alongside the phenomena it preaches a softened theology of survival, weighing 'the certainty of rewards and punishments' against a broadening 'vision of the morrow.' Its recurrent 'faculties' are those of the soul rather than the phrenologist's skull, and its center of gravity is the demonstration of spirit return and the immortality it is taken to prove. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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