Religion: Shine, Shimmer & Scintillate

Washington's Statler Hotel fairly rocked with positive thinking last Week as the International New Thought Alliance, percussively dedicated to "Peace, Poise, Power and Plenty," rejoiced in annual convention. From all over the U.S., plus England and Canada, 1,814 enthusiasts of such movements as "Religious Science," "Divine Science," "Church of Truth," "Church of Understanding" and "Science of Mind" gathered to cheer one another, bless money and annihilate negative ideas.

Tables were piled high with tracts, books, children's stories and material on such happy thoughts as the "Telegraphic Word Prayer Game" (players use the initials of a negative statement to make a positive one....

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