Star in the East, and Apostolic Baptist Herald and Spiritual Analyzer [Quarterly].
And he sent them to preach the Kingdom of God
Other titles: Star in the East / Apostolic Baptist Herald Spiritual Analyzer Quarterly
1848-1859 Annual, then quarterly in 1854
Montville, CT.
Editor: Jedediah Randall Gay, editor and proprietor.
1/1, 1848-1859. 12 1/2 cents a year.

Gay (1816-1887) was an Electric Physician and Surgeon, and purveyor of patent medicines, including "Dr. Gay's Electric Bowel Cordial"(”speedy relief afforded”). Connecticut Historical Society. The journal included extensive theological attacks on "Modern Spiritualism,"the contemporary manifestation of "Spiritual wickedness in high places." Its proponents, Gay stressed, "were chiefly composed of the fickle, discontented, unreliable and ever changing elements of community - the chief leaders, teachers and mediums being husbands dissatisfied with their wives, wives dissatisfied with their husbands, broken down bacchanalians, exhausted libertines, disappointed amorists, with idlers and atrocious hypocrites . . . ." He concluded: "I declare the whole system of the so called Spiritualists [is] blasphemous in its very essence, wicked in all its details, and demoralizing and ruinous in all it tendencies . . . the product of wicked or deluded men, in compact with wicked spirits under the Devil's direction." Vituperation at the time was certainly more eloquent than it is today. Connecticut Historical Society.

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