The morning times., 1896-10-11
National SpirItualists Soon to
Convene Here.
SESSION OF THREE DAYS
Eminent Lecturers VIII Be Present
Z and Public Meetings Held Each
EvenIng-ImpOrtant Matters to BE
DiscusSed-PrOposed Spiritualists'
building In Thu City.


National spirtualists' Association and the
First Association. will be held in Masonic
Temple, IN Inns city, October 20, u, and
22. Business sessions will be held each
day at 10 a. M. and p. m. at 7:30
each evening Interesting public meetings
will be heli, at which addresses, sLiIit
communications. and music will be the
features OF the program.
The National Spiriuuaiists' Association
is an organization of recent years.
An organization OF the Spiritualists OF
the United States and Canada was formed
September 20, i 1893, in Chicago, by dele
gates from, about Two hundred societies
in different sections of the country. Its
objects are the organization OF the various
Spritualists' societies or the United States
and Canada, into one general association.
for the purpose of mutual aid and CO.
operation, in benevolent, chart ablc, edu-
cational, literary, musical, scientific, re-
ligious, and missionary enterprises ger
maneto the phenOu.e ma, science, philosophy,
and religion of spiritualism.
ITS LARGE MEMBERSHIP.
The national association reports over
six hundred local associations OF spiritual
lists in the United States and Canada,
twelve State associations, and ffty-two
canp-meeting associations devoted 10 its
interests. II reports the bona fide mem
be 10000. The number OF investigators
into the subject of spiritualism and psychic
science is estimated at $50 900.
The total number of lecturers and min
is;ers now actively engaged in promLi eating
the doctrines Of spiritualism is $50. The
number OF psychics now before the public
for various phases of phenomenal manifes.a-
tions is about 800. The number OF church
edifices, temples, auditoriums- ETC., in tue
Uni ed States is seventy-five. Total valna-
tion OF such buildings, camp meeting prop
crty and real estate, $1,lGOOCO.
The N. 5. a. was Incorporated under the
| laws OF the District of Columbia, November
l, 1898. and has rapidly increased Is mem-
| berShip.
The officers for the fiscal year ending
| Oc .oJcr 20, 1886. are as follows: fresi-
dent, Harrison u. Barrett, Lily Dale n.
| Y; vice president, Mrs. Cora L. " Rich
| mond, Chicago. H.; secretary Francis b.
! Woodbury., washington. d. c.; trustees
Hon. Milan c. Edison, Washington; Benjamin
b. Hill, Philadelphia. Hon. Lu .herV .Muulron.
| Grand Rapids, Mich: DR.. gorge A. Fuller,
| Worcester, Mass, Mrs. Abby A L. Pet
| tcngill, Cleveland, o.
Thcse officers are elected annually at q
delegate convention held in this City on
| the third Tuesday in October.
| LARGEST OF ITS HISTORY.
| Inc tOtiIihS VIII
I be the largest ever held, for several So
| c.etes have been formed since last year,
the number reaching now 100, of which
| the membership i'll two years has doubled.
| The convent ion this year will be nearly II
| not twice as large as the convention OF
| 1895, and IN every way will it be superior.
| There will be very many more delegates,
| larger and more complete variety OF
| subj jects for consideration. larger num-
| ber of gifted lecturers and mediums VIII be
| present.
| President Fl. d. Barrett is soon to return
from California, where lie has been ell
i gagged, and has just effected the orgaui.
| Zat on or n state association with a MEM
| bershlp of seventeen societies. He comes
with II personally conducted excursion from
the West, III which hundred or more have
| joined.
| ABLE LECTURERS SECURED. .
There have been secured some Of the
ATTEST speakers oD the subject Of spirit
| uallsm.
on Sunday. October IS, in the Masonic
Temple, lectures will be delivered by the
| Hon. l.. V. Moulton, OF Grand Rapids
| Mich, at 1:30 a. m. and 7:3O p. M. AT
3 O'Clock p. m the union conference viii
| be held at which addresses will be de-
livered by number of liberals and spirit
ualists on the following subjects: SUNDAY
| LAWS. ne ntdStu WHY All
| and Libraries Should Be Open on the First
Day Of the Week." mo Union Of Church
and State" mo Recognition of Any Dc
numinational Religion by appointment o
ChaplaiDs by the Government" No Ap
preparation OF Government Moneys FOL
Sectarian Purposes, "''Taxation of Church
Property" etc.
AT 4 O'Clock Monday evening a reception
will be held in the red parlors at thu
Ebbitt House, the headquarters of dele
gates to the convention, To lie given by
the officers of the National spintualists
Association To the splritualists of America
BEGINS ON TUESDAY.
The convention proper opens Tuesda.
morning Mt 10 O'Clock. The business a
each days session Will be transacted q
10 and at 2 o'clock. The evening " ill b,
devoted to mass meetings, beginning q
1880, when the programs will be OF al
exceptionally interesting nature.
Friday " i'll be devoted TO sight seeing ant
in the evening the delegates will be enter
tanned under the auspices of washington
Spiritualists Ladies' Aid Society unde
the direction of c. w. Sullivan. Of Ousel
Mass. Saturday will also be taken up b
the delegates and visiting friends In sight
seeing, but on Sunday. the 25th, lecture
viii be delivered by Hon. L. v. Moulton, a
11:3O a. III. and T:3O p. m. In the after
noon at 3 there will be reception witt
addresses and spirit communications, rnusiC
readings, ETC., from members of the Cal
fornia Associations in attendance at tn
conventions.
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION.
Among the subjects to be considered b
the convention are:
How can we protect Spiritualisrn
spiritualists. honest mediums and the put
lie from the army of fortune tellers an
ualism as a cloak. under which they pl
q nefari0us businesS?"
.'Huw can ordination best be regulate
SO as 10 prevent persons not QualiIicd
education or development of spiritual gift
from receiving Endorsement of this kind?
; CHILDREN's PROGRESSIVE LYCEUA
.'How can we introduce new life in,
this important department OF the Work?
, 'How can lyceuns be best sustained?
what can we do to assist our youn
people to organize?"
II The cony eniion will consider the subje,
l of securing funds for the erection OF
temple in this city, to be known as II
National Spiritual Temple.
Artlcle VII, section ID, of the bylaws
the National Spiritual Association, entitle
special funds, is to be amended by subst
8 tuting:
5 "A fund known as the National Spiri
n ualists' temple fund, for the purpose
buyiDg lot and erecting temple ,ncreo
: whose purport and influence shall be I'll
r tinctly national combining an aGditorinI
seance room, library, living apartment
= for the secretary and for such mediums
may be there located under the auspic
of the National Spiritualists' Associatio
and also such educational departments
the board of trustees may in their wisdo
: adopt
: Personally conducted excursions ha'
= been arranged to the convention fro