This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt:... the new messiah; ob, who is the comforter? An Oration delivered by Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan, at Manchester, on Sunday Afternoon, June 27th, 1875. Mr. Osxey in the Chair. This subject has been presented to us by one of your number, and we are asked to give the views of the guides of this medium upon the question as to who this Comforter is that was to come upon the earth. You will recollect that the periods of the visitations of the Messiahs to earth have been periods of time in the cycles and records of each nation that may be measured, and just as distinctly stated, as any of the epochs of history or the geological periods of the earth's structure; that waves of spiritual thought, absolute visitations of the Divine Mind have been given to humanity since the beginning of earth's history just in proportion to their needs, or to the culmination of those periods that require them; and we announce as a fact that it is just as much in accordance with the divine beneficence that these epochs of spiritual inspiration shall take place, as it is that through natural laws the worlds and systems of the solar and sidereal heavens shall be evolved; that wherever humanity has dwelt, there have been evidences of inspiration and spiritual power; that wherever this spiritual power has dwelt, there have been culminations in the form of prophets, seers, and saviours; that the visitation of those divine ministrations must be, according to the tracings of history, once in 2,000 or 2,500 years of the earth's history; that an epoch of spiritual development corresponds to a certain epoch of the earth's physical and national development; and these spiritual forces culminate, presenting to the world their epitome in the form of revelations, Messiahs, Bibles, and...