Reality:  an illustrated monthly magazine of spiritual, scriptural and experimental truth speaking of the presence and acts of the Holy Spirit in the world. Ed. Eld. W. Kellaway. Los Angeles, CA:  Reality Publishing Company, 120 North Spring Street, 1897-[1901].

Reality was a short-lived inter-denominational effort in service of the Holiness Movement up and down the West Coast and beyond at the turn of the last century. Edited by Eld. W. Kellaway, the son of a W. T. A. Kellaway of London, it enlisted columns from a range of contributors, including Miss Beryl B. Bishop (later the Rev. Beryl Boswell Bishop Collett?), the “Evangelist and Missionary of the Free Methodist Church” who served as its “Northern California Agent”, and seems likely to have been a daughter of the W. D. Bishop mentioned often in the Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Free Methodist Church for California (not Southern California) throughout this period. References to events associated with other churches, just for example the Church of the Nazarene, abound. Vols. 2-4 of Reality came to Seattle Pacific via the Seattle Bible Training School of the Philadelphia Church and, before that, Wm. C. Stevens, himself a frequent contributor, and “superintendent of the Christian Alliance [later Christian Missionary Alliance] work on the Pacific Coast”. They appear to constitute the only extant run of the publication in WorldCat apart from that at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, which, unlike Seattle Pacific, owns also vol. 1.

Reality can be located in the Emmanuel Room with library call number BT767 .R43 v.2 – 4 (1898-1901).

– Steve Perisho,Theology and Philosophy Librarian