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...undersigned, and 28,757 others, do petition the Bishops of the Church of England, that 24 of their number do send for and open Joanna Southcott's Box of Sealed Manuscripts, as we are of the opinion that anything purporting to be a Divine Revelation laid up for the world at this critical period should be examined by the Heads of the Church...
This document, a full-page advertisement in the London Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, was the latest manifestation of a religious eccentricity which has mildly amused the Church of England for 150 years. Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a pious British servant woman who, like many another simple mind, came a cropper in the mysteries of the Book of Revelation...
...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...
...week hence, the box of Prophetess Southcott will be publicly opened by the Psychical Research Society in Albert Hall, one of the largest auditoriums in London. Whether it will be an occasion of national stress and whether 24 bishops will be present, was not announced. Sir Arthur Conan...