SMITH'S Hall, Hanover street. — Meeting Sunday night, 7 o’clock. Sister Amy Rhodes, S.G.P., Order Light, from South Australia, True Believers Divinity Christ. Address; ‘Sacrifices.’ Spiritual messages. All welcome. Collection. -Evening Star, 23/10/1915.
Sister Mary Rhodes arrived in Dunedin from Adelaide during the war years, after what seems to be a split in her original movement, the Order of Light (Inc.).
SMITHS HALL, Hanover street, Sunday, 5-7 p.m. — Sister Amy Rhodes, Sovereign Grand President, Order of Light; address, 'Christians Awake.' Messages from flowers; all welcome; collection. -Evening Star, 30/10/1915.
SMITH'S HALL, Hanover street, Sunday, 7 p.m., Sister Amy Rhodes. Addresses: "The Bruised Heart," "Vengeance is Mine." Independent spiritual messages. Collection for charity. -Evening Star, 8/4/1916.
DUNEDIN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH (Reg.), Smith's Hall, Hanover street, , SUNDAY, 7 p.m. SISTER AMY RHODES, Australia's Registered Medium. Subject: 'The Rich Man and Lazarus.' Independent Messages. Silver coin collection. Come early and secure a seat. -Evening Star, 29/9/1917.
Smith's Hall, Hanover street, SUNDAY, 7 p.m. SISTER AMY RHODES, Australia's Registered Medium. TRANCE ADDRESS. Spiritual Messages from Flowers. Silver Coin Collection. Come early and secure a seat. -Evening Star, 6/10/1917.
DUNEDIN Spiritualist Church (Reg.). — Smith's Hall, Hanover street, Sunday, 7 p.m., Sister Amy Rhodes. Trance Address: "Experiences After Death." Silver coin collection. Farewell address. Mrs Rhodes's private address: 21 Filleul street. -Otago Daily Times, 15/12/1917.
FRIENDLY Societies’ Hall, South Dunedin, Sunday, 7 p.m. Sister Amy Rhodes. Trance address: ‘Hell: Where and What Is It?’ Spiritual messages from Rowers. Mrs Rhodes’s private address: 21 Filleul street. Collection. -Evening Star, 26/1/1918.
DEATHS.
RHODES. — On May 20, 1918, at her residence, 21 Filleul street, Sister Amy Rhodes; aged 52 years. Late of Australia. Private interment. — Hugh Gourlev, undertaker. -Evening Star, 29/5/1918.
DUNEDIN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH.
Smith's Hall, Hanover street,
At 7 p.m.
Mr FRED GEORGE.
Memorial Service for late Sister Amy Rhodes.
Messages from Flowers at Close.
Collection at Door.
-Evening Star, 1/6/1918.
Not having access to Sister Rhodes' death certificate I do not know the official cause of her death. It might have been believed at the time that she was truly prescient of her own earthly end. She might have died of a more predictable and inevitable cause.

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