Spiritualist Messenger, The.
Spirituality, the Religion of Spiritualism / The Sun will shine after every storm. There is a Solution for Every Problem, and the Soul's highest duty is to be of Good Cheer. — Emerson
1920 Monthly
Grand Rapids, MI.
Editor: Merton Verrill, President of the Spiritualist Mediums' Alliance.
1/1, June (?), 1920.
$1.00 a year, 10 pp.

This was the official organ of the Spiritualist Mediums' Alliance. Despite its proclamation that it was "A National Body," this was one of the 8 or so competing spiritualist organizations in the 1920s and was really a regional affair, limited to Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and upstate New York. It had been started in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1918 by Alfred J. Eastman and seems to have been primarily devoted to opposing the New England spiritualist establishment whose materialistic beliefs and practices radiated vibrations that effectively stymied the good spirits trying to communicate with mortals. The alliance's main principle was "We affirm, that man is potentially Infinite, inasmuch as man is Spirit, and Spirit being eternal and progressive, and therefore capable of attaining Infinite Intelligence." Its journal was given over to "Church Bulletins"from groups scattered through the alliance, expositions of principles, minutes of board meetings, and touching advertisements along the lines of "Spiritual and Magnetic Healing, Trumpets Made to Order." The alliance was still in existence in the 1960s.

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