[Programme, printed on heavy cream card, folded twice, distributed to Orpheus Society subscribers in September 1923. Engraved frontispiece showing a lyre and a laurel branch.]

THE ORPHEUS SOCIETY OF PORT HUME

Thirty-Seventh Season

1923-1924

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

President — Mrs. Augusta Thorpe Callisher, of the Crescent. Vice-President — Mrs. Evangeline Pryce Hume, of Vanderlin Row. Treasurer — Mrs. Rachel Linden, of the Crescent. Recording Secretary — Miss Cornelia Forsyth, of Brayton Hill. Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. Edith Cargill, Librarian, Hume Polytechnic Institute. Honorary Patroness — Madame Théosine Laforge, in Residence.

THIS SEASON'S LECTURES AND SITTINGS.

All meetings at the Society's hall, 28 Laurel Street, the Heights, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, 11 October 1923. — Opening Address. Madame Laforge, on "The Return of the Absent: Communion with the Lost in This Age of Sorrows."

Thursday, 25 October. — Lecture. Dr. Hendrick Palmer, visiting from the Boston Society for Psychical Research, on "The Photograph and the Phenomenon: A Re-examination."

Thursday, 8 November. — Private sitting. Madame Laforge, by invitation; patrons who wish to attend are asked to communicate with the Recording Secretary in writing.

Thursday, 22 November. — Lecture. Miss Millicent Hargrave-Thwaite, member, on "Port Hume Mediumship, 1870-1920: A Survey." (NOTE: This lecture has been added to the programme at the Society's invitation and with the speaker's consent. Miss Hargrave-Thwaite's views, as all members will recall, are not in every particular concordant with the Society's working premises. The Society offers her the podium in the spirit of a catholicity of inquiry.)

Thursday, 6 December. — Lecture. Rev. Dr. Alistair Macgregor, visiting from Glasgow, on "Spiritualism and the Christian Dogmatics."

Thursday, 20 December. — Christmas Sitting. Madame Laforge; open to members in good standing.

Thursday, 10 January 1924. — Lecture. (Speaker to be announced; the Committee is in correspondence with a distinguished American thinker whose name will be announced to the membership shortly.)

Thursday, 24 January. — Private sitting. Madame Laforge.

Thursday, 7 February. — Lecture. Professor Martin J. Ingersoll, of Hume Polytechnic Institute, on "Natural Philosophy and the Parlor Experiment." (NOTE: Professor Ingersoll's 1914 remarks in Popular Science Monthly are remembered by the Society's older members. The Committee offers him the podium — as it offers Miss Hargrave-Thwaite hers — in the conviction that scholarly disagreement is the parent of understanding. Members are urged to attend.)

Thursday, 21 February. — Lecture. Madame Laforge, on "The Ethics of the Sitting."

Thursday, 6 March. — Sitting. Madame Laforge; by invitation.

Thursday, 20 March. — Annual Meeting. Business; election of officers for 1924-25; light refreshment. No lecture.

SUBSCRIPTION. Ten dollars for the full season, five dollars for the half-season, payable to the Treasurer at the first meeting or by post to 11 The Crescent. Single-evening admission for non-subscribers, upon space availability: $1.50.

A NOTE FROM THE PATRONESS.

To the membership of the Society:

This is my eleventh season in residence at the Orpheus Society. I wish to thank you, each of you, for the patience and the faithfulness with which you have sustained this small candle of American spiritualism through the years that followed the Great War. I have in this past year had the privilege of speaking, as many of you know, with a number of your departed. I am moved beyond telling when they are moved to speak. I am not diminished by those who say the speaking is mine. I am not diminished by those who bring their skepticism to my threshold; I welcome them. Truth is not fragile. I serve what I have been given to serve. The Society's continuing confidence is a gift I accept with the humility it deserves.

— Théosine Laforge, in residence.