Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-15

tapped his arms and tried to fly; but
he only fell heavily to the ground, in,
juring woman in his fall. A great
uproar followed and his disappointed
disciples handed him over to the DO
lice, who sent him to prison for a
time. After his release he recovered
some of his influence over the Molo-
kani, to whom he preached the COM
ing end of the world to the day of his
death. Eventually his flock migrated
to Georgia, where they settled down
within view of Ararat and united with
a colony of Lutherans from Wurtem-
burg. When Napoleon was in Rus
sia the Molokani imagined that Ae
was "the Lion of the Valley of Je-
hoshaphat described in their old
Psalms, who was destined to over
throw the false Emperor, and restore
the throne of the white Gar" So
the Tamb of Molokani appointed a
deputation from their body 'to go
clothed in white and present an ad-
dress to him" in the year 1912. The
deputies made their way through Lit
tie Russia and Poland, as far as the
listula, but they were made prison
ers. One of them escaped and got
safely home; but the rest were never
heard Of again. Liprandi, in the re-
port he drew up (in RusSian) for the
government in the year 1858, says
that "the Napoleon-ovshOhina. or sect
of worShippers of Napoleon, reap
peared in 1920 at Byelostok, and at
PSkof, aud again in 1874, at Mos
cow" The worshippers of Napoleon
at Moscow meet with the utmost Sc,
crecy in private stone house in the
middle of the town. There, after
performing other rites, they PROSTATE
themselves before bust of Napoleon
as before divinity. For them Ma
poleon is still living, and they believe
that some day he will return from ST.
IBERIA, together with Peter III. Then
Peter will mount the throne of the
world, and Napoleon will command
the legions Of the faithful under him.
Liprandi goes on to tell how the po-
lice contrived in November, 1845. to
get hold of certain secret pictures oe-
longing to this sect; one of which he
laid before the Minister of the Interi-
or. These pictures were printed on
very thin paper, in order that, being
slipped between the leaves of books
and aliases, they might get passed
unseen from hand to hand. And
these pictures represent Napoleon
ascending to heaven" Liprandi ends
his report (Which was never intended
to be other than strictly private and
conidential) by remarking o W
strange it is that "in Moscow there
should have sprung up a religious
sect of Napoleon worshippers."
THE "sOUL- WRESTLERS. :
From among the Molokani have
arisen the Dukhobortsi or southwest.
lers, who hold that the Dukhoborets
is God, and cannot sin, but the non
Dukhoborets is radically wicked--all
that he does, even what appears tc
be good, is SIM" One of their char
acteristics is 1.-The remarkably hand
some forms both of men and women
and the health and strength they dis
play This is partly to be account
ed Tor by the fact that they put tC
} death every child that is delicate OF
deformed. "The soul" they say, "be
: ing the likeness of God, must dwell il
} worthy, noble and vigorous body
Ii We find it in a weak and poor one
; we are bound to free it from its lgnO
. bic prison; it then chooses for itself,
: according to the law of the transmi
grafton OF souls, another and a bettel
body" Such child-murders gives lit
tie pain to their parents, for their the
/ ory is that "the soul, the image ol
God, recognizes no earthly father O.
mother" and that "there is only on
: father, the totality of God, who live
r in every individual; and one mother
: universal matter or nature, the earth
/ Consequently, the Dukhobortsi neve
! call their parents '1ather" or 'mother
= but only ''old man. and "old woman !;
t and parent does not speak OF "my
:, children, but of ''ours," meaning tn
+ community's. The career of the grea
e chief of the Dukhobortsi, kapustin b
a name, had something In common wit
e that OF John Of Leyden. He mus
e have been no common man, who, a
S though "merely an uncultivated Ru'
y sian peasant" was able to create, an
maintain for several years, "a con
plete theocratic State, comprising 4
), 600 persons-a platonic Utopia four
e ded upon religious, Christian, an
e Gnostic principles" 1t was near tt
e Sea of Azof that the Dukhobortsi, Sc
k tied, and there Kapustin, who ha
IL persuaded them that the soul of Chris
e dwelt in his body. ruled despoticall,
r In 1914 he was imprisoned, but
l. was soon liberated on BAIL After
5, time he disappeared, and it was NJ
f till long after he was dead that til
y cave in which he had spent the las
t. years of his life became known to tt
l. public. After his death the colon
e fell into disorder. The Council @
d Elders which ruled it "became
e terri b lie inquisitional tribunal
It Torture and death followed close u
y on the slightest sign of an intentio
N to 60 over to the Russian Church
l. "Within few years about two hui
r dred people disappeared, leavir
20 scarcely trace behind; an investig
- tion by the authorities, too late {
IT prevent the mischief, revealed drea
N full state of things; bodies were foun
K buried alive, and many mutilated."-
g In 1912 and the following year mo
N of the Dukhobortsi were transplante
K to the Caucasus. Such are few c
E. the strangest offshoots from the ma
q hodv of Rpooiop di,cant Oe n