Excerpt from Lecture on Spiritual Manifestations, Past, Present, and Future: Delivered in the People's Theater, Saint Louis, Mo., Sunday Evening, March 24, 1853It is but natural to expect Spiritual Manifestations upon the earth, which is itself but the manifestation of Spiritual power working outward into the elements of form. This being true, the past becomes luminous as we gaze upon it, and, standing in the sphere of spiritual causes, we are able to look out upon the sphere of natural effects, and in the midst of the seeming contra dictions, contrarieties 'and antagonisms of human history, to distinguish the bright, immortal river of Spiritual Manifestations, beginning when earth began, rolling through the center of every generation, growing doubly bright with the growth and march of ages, and bearing within its mighty bosom the current of inspired intelligence and the better life of man, and rolling on and on, with solemn, sweet and mighty rhythm, into the great eternity whence it rose.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.