Jackson County IA Archives Church Records.....Spiritualist Society Copyright Date May 15, 1884
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Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, May 15, 1884 

SPIRITUALIST SOCIETY 

The Spiritualist Society of Maquoketa met in its room last Thursday night, and 
by an almost unanimous vote changed its name. It now goes by the name of 
the “Church of the New Era.” In this change it does not go back on 
spiritualism, nor is it any less a spiritual society now than it was before. 
One of the reasons given for making the change was that there are many 
progressive people who would like to associate with them who were not fully 
convinced of spiritualism. They thought it not just the thing to hold on to a 
name that would exclude these honest people. Again it was urged that all 
organizations, the object of which is to discuss theological and spiritual 
problems are known as churches, that the word church would enable people to at 
once class them as a religious body. A committee was chosen to draw up the 
necessary papers and procure an act of incorporation-Record. 





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