Millennial Messenger.
Disclosures from the Interior.
1855 Monthly
New York, NY.
Language: English.
Editor: Eli Curtis, publisher.
Succeeds: The Sabbath Advocate (1850)
1/1, 1855.
"For free Circulation." 8 pp.

Eli Curtis (1793- 1872) was a purveyor of dubious patent medicines who had been a Millerite and follower of Ellen White and later, in the early 1850s, became a spiritualist, publishing a series of pamphlets on phenomena like the "Dixboro Ghost." In 1870, at spirit direction, he bought five acres of the land on which the Koons Spirit House had stood as the nucleus of a planned utopian Morning Star Colony, but the plans came to naught when he died. From the subtitle of the journal and its frequent borrowings from the Mountain Cove Journal it is apparent that Curtis had fallen under the spell of Thomas Lake Harris and James L. Scott and their colony. The journal added to these excerpts Curtis's own "Series of Communications" "purporting to be given by the Spirit of the Lord!" American Antiquarian Society.