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Periodical: The Temple Messenger

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Temple Messenger.
A Monthly Journal Published in the Interests of 'The First Spiritual Temple' Educational School, corner of Exeter and Newbury St.
Do well thy work, it shall succeed in their or another's Day
1890 Monthly
Boston, MA. Language: English.
Editor: Alonzo Danforth. Succeeded by: The Sower
1/1, September 1890. 8 pp.
"Published in the Interests of 'The First Spiritual Temple' Educational School, corner of Exeter and Newbury St." NSAC Lily Dale.

Other Sources:
Issues:Temple Messenger V1 N1 Sep 1890
Temple Messenger V1 N2 Oct 1890
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Temple Messenger was the organ of a spiritualist temple congregation, its pages reporting from a purpose-built hall whose cornerstone was laid in 1884 and whose platform served the ministry of mediums. Its core matter is spiritualist — mediumship and materialization phenomena, communication with the Summerland, and the consolation that intelligence and love survive death — but it is braided through with the New Thought language of success, demonstration, and prosperity that pervaded turn-of-the-century American metaphysical religion. Trance and suggestion appear as the working vocabulary of mediumistic practice. The result is a hybrid temple magazine, spiritualist at its foundation and mind-cure in its accents.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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