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The Banner of Light was an American spiritualist journal published weekly in newspaper format between 1857 and 1907, the longest lasting and most influential of such journals. It was based in Boston, but covered the movement across the US. The paper included a page that gave messages received by its resident medium, and letters from relatives confirming the authenticity of the messages. It also included articles on spiritualism, book reviews, notices of meetings and letters from readers. ==History== The ''Banner of Light'' succeeded ''The Life'', a local newsletter that William Berry had started the year before to publicize the seances of Mrs. Jennie H. ("Fanny") Conant. It had an eight-page newspaper format, with forty columns, each almost 150 lines long. It was published weekly, with the first issue appearing on 11 April 1857. The ''Banner of Light'' was based in Boston apart from a brief period in 1859 when it was published in New York. In 1866 the ''Banner'' established a Western Department in Cincinnati to cover the Midwest, although its reports of activity far from Boston was by no means complete. The publisher was Isaac Rich and Luther Colby, and then L. Colby & Company. Subscriptions at first cost $2.00 per year, later $3.00 per year. Editors were Luther Colby (1857–94), John W. Day (18–97), Harrison D. Barrett (1897–1904), J.J. Morse (1904–05) and Irving F. Symonds (1905–07). There were many spiritualist journals in the second half of the 19th century, but the ''Banner of Light'' was much more widely read than any of the others, with a truly national circulation. However, claims by the ''Banner of Light'' to have from 15,000 to 30,000 subscribers were greatly exaggerated. The journal was always financially precarious. The ''Progressive Thinker'' of Chicago had overtaken it in number of subscribers by the early 1890s. The last weekly issue in newspaper format was volume 99, number 26, dated 18 August 1906. This issue held an announcement that the journal would now appear monthly, and called for subscriptions. Volume 100, number 1, appeared as a 54-page monthly in January 1907, and proved to be the last issue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Banner of Light」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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