# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1920_S 2
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

GRAEBNER: SPIRS

Spiritism continues to be the dominantré
Within the memory of man no religious cul
so successfully and has received so much -fr
British Invasion. Sir Oliver Lodge is visitin
addresses thousands, for “he has spoken to his

The Sunday papers bring columns of
photographs of the late Gladstone, conver
Tolstoi, ete.

London.is “medium mad”; there is
seek communion with the dead.” “And the
spreading over the United States. The magazir
stories in which the ouija board, erystal gazi
apparitions figure largely. In. New York the:'
is many times greater than the supply. In Mil
spreading like a prairie fire; nearly 10,000: pe
each week; the city has 150 professional mediuy
The. ouija board and spirit trumpets beg:
. syndicated. comics of the daily papers. The mo
a new opportunity. Some of the greatest produ
based on Spiritism traveling their circuits. In
of St. Louis and Chicago the sale of spiritis
even than the sale of new fiction. :
prising demand for all books treating occult ‘

The Conti, 2nt recently said: —

“A New York gentleman interested in meas
in this country about things occult hired a man
the bookshop of the Wanamaker store and take’ no
purchased there. Out of every five books sold “oy

, that day, four had something or other to do with §
_ably no modern bookseller expected to live to see
thing printed would sell better than novels, but
-i.¢Gome to pass. —
~“A friend: of the gentleman, who heard of hig
“by ‘sending, an agent. to inquire of the New York
the demand for spiritualistic. works, The respon
quiry for literature of this‘nature ,far exceeds’ the
_  Hbrary ever: “had for any single line. of publicatio
ee its shelves “is nothing compiired * ‘vith the demand:?

° = The price of Prof. Graebner’s Spiritism, the ot

“that counteracts the: epidemic from a Protestant.”

: “wiew,. is’ 60 -cts., postpaid, : -in ‘the paper-covered
_ fol cloth. ’

“CONCORDIA PUBLISE,
- St. Louis, M