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The first office of the Religious Research Foundation was opened by its founder, the Rev. Dr. Franklin Loehr, in 1952, with the motto Adding Facts to Faith. Dr. Loehr was both a scientist and an ordained minister and recognized the need for answers to spiritual questions that were based on proven facts rather than the dogma of any religion. For several years, the Religious Research Foundation was active in spiritual research of all types: prayer, comparative religions, life after death, psychical research, reincarnation research, parapsychology, etc. Probably the best-known work of the foundation at that time was the prayer-plant experiment. With the combination of his degree in chemistry and his years as a minister, Dr. Loehr was the ideal leader of these laboratory investigations. He directed a controlled experiment on the effects of prayer on the growth of plants. 156 people took part in this project over a 3-year period, performing over 700 experiments, using more than 27,000 seeds with about 100,000 measurements. The results were outstanding, and proved that prayer is effective. These experiments were written up in newspapers across the country and published in a best selling book by Dr. Loehr, The Power of Prayer on Plants, (Doubleday, 1959).

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