Twin City Spiritualist News [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*Twin City Spiritualist News*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Twin City Spiritualist News, The. A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Spiritualism and its Workers. Truth is not worth having without, if need be, a man will die for it - Bruno / We ask the Thinkers to Think 1912? Monthly Minneapolis, MN. Language: English. Editor: Rev. J.F. Ireland. Corporate author: First Spiritualist Church of Minneapolis 1/1, 1912 (?) 18 pp, 5 cents a copy. Ireland was the president of the Mississippi Valley Spiritualist Association in Clinton, Iowa, and pastor of the First Spiritualist Church in Minneapolis. The journal seems to have been the vehicle for publication of Ireland's sermons and for advertisements for favored spiritualist churches and mediums. One issue at NSAC, Lily Dale; Hamilton College.
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Issues:	Twin City Spiritualist News March 1912
Claude-Generated Themes:	The Twin City Spiritualist News was a Minneapolis monthly 'devoted to Spiritualism and its workers,' edited by a pastor and state-association president who used its pages to promote local mediumship, movement news, and doctrinal argument. It reprinted the National Spiritualist Association's Declaration of Principles and defended the reality of spirit communication and the survival of personal identity after death against religious critics. Its texture is that of an organized-Spiritualism house organ rather than a phenomenon-hunting periodical: churchly, apologetic, and reform-minded. Older mesmeric and harmonial vocabulary surfaces as the movement's 19th-century inheritance. In short, a compact record of institutional Spiritualism in the American upper Midwest on the eve of the First World War. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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