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Performance TitleSpiritualist Association of Great Britain Service of Reunion
Performance Date9 November 1958
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersAir Chief Marshal Lord Dowding,
Eric Ball,
Sydney Richardson,
William Redmond,
Jordan Gill - speakers

Nancy Evans,
Robert Easton - vocals,
Charles Smart - organ
Set List'Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven',
'The Great Awakening' - Kramer (Robert Easton, Charles Smart),
'The Lord's Prayer' (Nancy Evans, Charles Smart),
'Traumerie', Schumann (Charles Smart),
'I Dunno', Nichol (Robert Easton, Charles Smart),
'Psalm XXIII' (Sydney Richardson),
'Abide With Me', Liddle (Nancy Evans, Charles Smart),
'God of The Living in Whose Eyes',
'The Old Shepherd's Song', Howard Fisher (Robert Easton, Charles Smart),
'Give', Peter Warren (Robert Easton, Charles Smart),
'Jesu, Gracious Lord of All Our Being', Bach (Nancy Evans, Charles Smart),
'Pleading', Elgar (Nancy Evans, Charles Smart),
'Hark, Hark, My Soul! Thy Father's Voice is Calling',
'The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended',
'Jerusalem', Parry
Performance NotesJordan Gill demonstration of clairvoyance:
"The tale of a duck provided the most unusual, and by that criterion the most remarkable, evidence at this year's Service of Reunion on Sunday. The duck's life began in a most remarkable way. It was the only duck-egg among a clutch of hen-eggs. Jordan Gill, frankly puzzled by the bizarre turn his message was taking, relayed that information to a man seated at a distance round the perimeter of the hall. And the duck had a remarkable ending. It did not die normally, nor was it killed for the pot - though it had been eaten, said the puzzled medium. Now over to the man who received the message. Mr William Mark Wiggett... is vice-president of the Bennington Street Church. He remembered the duck. It had been hatched among a clutch of hen eggs as the medium said. And it had been killed and eaten by a cat. This is the trivial, yet paradoxically tremendous, kind of information that counts in clairvoyance - for only the family would know of it and it is not of such importance that the receiver would be expecting it to be referred to. And few people can have raised one duck among many hens and had it killed by a cat? ... The messsge began with the name of Mr Wiggett's wife - Gert. Then Tony (his son) was mentioned. Tony, a sailor, was killed during the war at the age of nineteen and last week his anniversary fell. The medium asked if he drove a car. Mr Wiggett drove up from Cheltenham for the meeting. Had he had a puncture or were the treads of the tyres worn ..."I wish you luck," said Gill. ..." (Psychic News, November 1958)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1958/161)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1958/161Spiritualist Association of Great Britain Service of Reunion9 November 1958
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Yzar_Ryn_SowdSpiritualist Association of Great Britain Service of Reunion1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/10123Richardson; Sydney (fl 1950s); British spiritual healer
DS/UK/10124Redmond; William (fl 1950s-1960s); British medium
DS/UK/10125Gill; Jordan (fl 1950s); British medium
DS/UK/2718Evans; Nancy (1915-2000); OBE; English mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/1742Easton; Robert (1898-1987); British bass
DS/UK/7519Smart; Charles (fl 1940s-1960s); British organist
DS/UK/11301Ball; Eric (1903-1989); OBE; British composer, arranger and conductor
DS/UK/11299Dowding; Hugh Caswall Tremenheere (1882-1970); 1st Baron Dowding, GCB GCVO CMG; British officer in the Royal Air Force
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