{"product_id":"5241","title":"\"Is Spiritualism of the Devil?\"","description":"\u003cp\u003ewith an introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.\u003cbr\u003eBeverley: Wright and Hoggard.. [1917].\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003eA rare pamphlet on Christian-spiritualist ecumenism\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 184x124mm. pp. 27 [1bl]. Original printed wrappers. It has been folded in half (vertically) and has a crease running along the centre but otherwise in very good condition. This little pamphlet reproduces a lecture given by The Reverend Fielding-Ould to the London Spiritualist Alliance on March 22nd 1917. The introduction by Conan Doyle is a letter to Fielding-Ould praising the lecture. The text is a rather clever and delicate attempt to marry mainstream Christianity to the fashionable spiritualism of the day. In answer to the question of the title, Fielding-Ould concludes that it is \"neither divine nor diabolic: it is an instrument, a means, an open door through which in the past have come both good and evil\". Fielding-Ould was an important figure in spiritualism and Conan Doyle was a loyal supporter of his Christian tempering of the movement. Rare, Worldcat locating only three copies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eRef. 5241\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FIELDING-OULD, Rev. F","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64979979436409,"sku":"5241","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/18.Fielding-Ould.jpg?v=1792760309","url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/products\/5241","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}