#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines; the ones you do not share are necessarily less central to the faith. Acknowledging that you and those with whom you disagree will spend eternity together should encourage you to not allow peripheral doctrines to separate you here on earth.

With Private Member's Bills having been suspended during the Second World War and for some years afterwards it was not until 1950 that an opportunity emerged. He was elected as a Labour Party candidate to Castleford Urban District Council in 1914. He led delegations from the Spiritualists' National Union to the Home Secretary over what spiritualists believed was heavy-handed policing and in 1943 obtained a concession that action would only be taken in the most extreme cases of misrepresentation.

A spiritualist his main achievement was to lead the successful campaign to repeal the Witchcraft Act 1735. Thomas Judson Brooks MBE JP (7 July 1880 – 15 February 1958) was a British coal miner and politician who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament.