| Main Performers | Lord Dowding,
Percy Hitchcock,
Armand Wilson,
Jordan Gill - speakers
Charles Smart - organ,
Harold Pook - pianoforte
Heddle Nash - vocals |
| Secondary Performers | Tom Brooks - on the platform |
| Set List | Heddle Nash Service:
Invocation (Percy J Hitchcock),
The Lords Prayer (Grace Nevern),
'The Sanctuary of the Heart' (Charles Smart),
Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding,
'I Will Arise and Go Unto My Father' (Heddle Nash),
Galantians 5, v.22 to 6, v 10 (G A Williams),
The Silence and the Laying of the Wreath,
'I Hear You Calling Me' (Heddle Nash),
Hymn - 'Praise, My Soul, the King of Heavan',
Demonstration (Jordan Gill),
'The Faith Hath Saved Thee' (Grace Nevern),
'Love's Old Sweet Song' (Percy J Hitchcock),
'The People Who Live Upstairs' (Heddle Nash),
Hymn - 'Open My Eyes That I May See',
Demonstration (Armand Wilson),
The Ceremony of the Blessing,
Benediction |
| Performance Notes | "Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, with his distinguished service career and his fearless advocacy of the Spiritualist case for survival, was a fitting choice of speaker for the Service of Reunion organised by the Marylebone Spiritualist Association. ... He gave two views generally held about life after death. There were those who held that we remained inert until the trumpet sounded on the day of judgment; there were others who declared that, quite irrespective of the life lived on earth, we went forward together to a 'summerland'. 'But the face it,' said Dowding, ' that everyone gravitates to the existence for which he has suited himself by his life on earth.' The average person, he said, finds his survival happy enough, and for some years, as we reckon time, his conditions remain similar to those on earth, until he chooses to go forward to higher things. 'But there is something that everyone ought to know,' continued the Air Chief Marshal 'and that is that when men and women are suddenly struck out of physical life in an instant to time, they quite often don't realise what has happened to them, and especially if they have no thought of life after death. ...
To the vital question, 'Will there come a time when wars will cease?' Dowding said: 'The answer lies in the hearts of men. When there is peace in men's hearts, then there will be peace between natios. Peace cannot be imposed from without. 'While man tortures his lesser brethern of the animal kingdom,' declared Dowding, 'and while he sends out thoughts of selfishness and hatred, the kindfom of God cannot come into his heart. And until it comes into his heart it cannot come into the world.'"
Jordan Gill's demonstration:
"Perhaps his best message was delivered to a woman in one of the loggias. She acknowledged the name Eric and confirmed that he had worn two uniformed, having entered one service and transferred to another. Gill described him physically as a little taller than himself, with a good head of hair, and aged between 22 and 24. This, the woman said, was true. The medium went on to speak of a man connected with him who had been troubled lately, and at first the recipient could not understand this. But she was able to place the reference when he said that it concerned a man who had been receiving healing but who was now well. Describing Eric as a soldier he said that he nearly became an officer, to which the woman said that she thought this was right. Giving his own version of why he did not obtain a commission, Gill said: 'As far as I can see he couldn't stick the officers.'"
Percy Hitchcock's address:
"'To look back with regret and never to look forward with hope,' said Hitchcock, 'is surely a living death. Meaning and purpose are forward looking principles. They are always concerned with the future.'"
Armand Wilson's demonstration:
"A remarkable feat of family linking preceeded the most evidential message of Armand Wilson's demonstration of clairaudience. He announced that he was contacting a young man who passed in an accident involving a motor-cycle or motor-car. 'Strangely enough,' he continued, 'as I contact this boy I get one condition drawing me to the front and another to the back. I want to contact two or several people who know this boy. I am getting the name Maurice Denyer or Dennis.' There were simultaneous cries of 'Yes' from two seats at opposite ends of the huge hall. The young communicator's mother was seated immediately behind the platform and his father, who had not made up his mind to attend until the last moment and had, as a result, to take a seat separated from his wife, was positioned with his sister at the far side of the building. 'It appears to me' Wilson went on, 'that you have built a home on earth with which your son is very pleased. He says he is particularly pleased with the roof and coloured tiles. He has Granny with him, also someone who passed with cancer.' When our reporter spoke to the boy's father, Mr Owen Denyer...he confirmed all the details of the message. His son had been killed in a motor-cycle collision with a car on November 20, 1948. At that time the family were living in Acton, but Mr Denyer had purchased some land at Chertsey and was hoping to build a house when he could obtain a licence. This had now been done, and the garden laid out to a plan drawn up by his son. The reference to roof and tiles concerned the fact that the house was the only one in the area with green tiles. The relative who passed with cancer was an uncle who had died only seven weeks ago. There was no possibility that any of the information given could be known to the mediu, Mr Denyer added, for he and his wife had seen the demonstrator at only two earlier public meetings and had never had a previous message from him.
Another evidential message from this demonstrator concerned a Polish solider and a healing symbol. 'I am getting someone speaking in a foreign language,' Wilson began. 'Also the name Michael Ludlavke.' This was ackowledged by Mr Berto Riselli, the hypnotist, who was seated in one of the upper galleries and barely visible from the platform. The demonstrator continued; 'They are very interested in something which you are going forward with at the present time. Are you a healer?' 'Yes.' 'Have you in your pocket a symbol or a key which would link with what I am talking about?' 'Not in my pocket.' Have you it on your person?' ' Yes.' Mr Riselli said he had ever met Armand Wilson."
(Psychic News, 15 November 1952) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1952/191)
Poster (RAHE/2/1952/1) |