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50941 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1057.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Modern Spiritualism within the span of half a century. Even the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica states that Spiritualism has “spread …

50942 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1057.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Modern Spiritualism in Germany, North America, and the world by 1910, says that Dr. F. Maack, of Hamburg, then reported ten thousand Spiritualists in Berlin alone …

50943 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1058.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

In 1918 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote enthusiastically about the potentialities of Spiritualism, and considered it the coming world marvel:

50944 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1058 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

III. Three Stages in Historical Development of Spiritualism

50945 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1058.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… 1893 Spiritualism shifted to a religious basis, and declared itself to be a church. As more and more church people accepted Spiritualism, this religious …

50946 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1058.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… with Spiritualism’s crude phenomena in the earlier decades-shot through and through with fraud and trickery, but with some inexplicable realities-this …

50947 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1059 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

2. OLD WORLD SCIENTISTS ESPOUSE SPIRITUALISM

50948 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1059.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… history Spiritualism has won over to its cause hundreds of scientists. Not a few of these were of European fame, such as Sir William Crookes, inventor of the …

50949 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1059.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… that Spiritualism has adroitly changed its form, and veiled some of its earlier, cruder, and more objectionable secular features. But while it assumed a churchly …

50950 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1060.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… “establish” Spiritualism as a “religion.” This step was taken with the declared purpose of “converting the world to Spiritualism.” 13) Joseph P. Whitwell, “Organization …

50952 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1060.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Progressive Spiritual Church was also founded in 1913 to establish Spiritualism on a more religious basis. It believes in the communion of spirits, God …

50953 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1061.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“2. We believe that the phenomena of Nature, both physical and spiritual, are the expression of Infinite Intelligence.

50954 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1061.7 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“5. We affirm that communication with the so-called dead is a fact, scientifically proven by the phenomena of Spiritualism.

50955 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1061.9 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“7. We affirm the moral responsibility of the individual, and that he makes his own happiness or unhappiness as he obeys or disobeys nature’s physical and spiritual laws.

50956 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1062.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… of Spiritualism to bring prominently before the world—Woman,—as a minister, teacher, counsellor, and guide.” 20) “Formation of the National Spiritualist Association …

50957 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1062.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… “great Spiritual wave.” Such was Spiritualism’s avowed goal in 1893.21) Ibid., p. 14. 22) Ibid., p. 13. 23) Ibid.

50958 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1062 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

V. “Definitions” of Spiritualism as “Science, Philosophy and Religion”

50959 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1062.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… of Spiritualism. These definitions are likewise essential to an accurate understanding of their viewpoint and claims, so they are here given verbatim …

50960 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1063.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… of Spiritualism. 24) More women have that susceptibility than men, according to Spiritualists.