Religion: Voices at Lily Dale

The Lily Dale Assembly, in New York, is the "Largest Spiritualist Camp in the World." There each summer spiritualism bursts into full bloom. Last week its 61st annual session drew believers and skeptics alike for contact with the spirit world. In parlor seances in many a medium's cottage along Lily Dale's wooded roads, the ether was crowded with voices. Reported Editor Juliette Ewing Pressing of The Psychic Observer: "The heavenly hosts are pleading with us these days to keep our balance and poise." Plainest talk came from the late Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator and Secretary of the Navy, who for 30...

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