Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-08

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furnishes every thing for mans sub
sistence. Notning passes their lips
except that which grows from the
ground, and It must be eaten just
as It grows. They hold thatrit is as
sinful to diet on dried frui. as 1t
would be to lunsh on roast beef,
plum pudding. and Limb urger
cheese. They yien to the. very ex-
treme OF vegetariullism. They run
to the extreme in everything. The
ordinary vegetarian, we believe,
cooks his cabbage and potatoes,
aud uses salt on his radish, but the
Societas FTaternia trke theirs un-
tainted by fire or condiments. They
contend that 'all substances in ma
ture contain q spiritual essence
which goes to build up the body,
and which Is the clothitg of the
soul after leaving mortal life.n
Anything which needed cooking,
nature never intended should be
eaten. Cooking destroys that spir-
itual essence which pervad IS every
thing in nature. Not only does the
consumption of gross things tend TO
mans de ebasement, but it is neces-
sary, in order to obtain the luxuries
craved by his perverted system, TO
toll like slave from morn till
night. But as nature provides
everything actually necessary to
mans existence, the necessity for
continual toll does not exist; and
man, II he so wills it, has ample op-
portunities for rest, recreation and
mental improvement.
To the question as TO how mem. i.
bers OF the Society could live up to
their professions In cold countries,
where fruit and vegetables were at
some seasons not to be had, the
Doctor replied that only In coun-
tries favorably situated, like this,
could perfection in their religion
be reached. 1t would therefore be
necessary for believers to either
join the Society at Anaheim or es-
tablish another at some point
equally favorable for the produc-
tion of these staple articles OF diet.
All the property OF the Society is
held In trust by Mr.. Carpenter.
There is no separate property,
everything being held in com mmon.
Neither does the Society desire to
accu umulafe wealth; nature fur
| nislies them with food and they
have little need of money. Anyone
vino desires to ioin their Society is
| welcome, wh+iher they have
wealth or not, if they will agree to
live in accordance with the estab.
lished rules. Mr.. Carpenter is now
III New York, aud it is Understood
that he will soon return here with
u large accession OF me m bers.
1t is perhaps Needless 70 say that
they hold The marriage ceremony
IN contempt. Their views on this
subject are not greatly dissim;lar
10 IN 81 held by the o ,.ida COM
muli y. They say hat If this
I world is to ba redee med 1t has to be
by Il purer system IN III at present
-xis's OF Introducing human being.
into the world. They hold 1t to be
s'ufue for the sexes 20 criabit mot
ev~n excepting married person-) J
: kept for thu single purpose of
bro-ereation, aud tnat the diet of
the society makes IL impossible
for members to siu In that respect.
We have thus given u brief
sketch of these peculiar people,
know ing that there was a growing
desire among our readers to obtain
some authentic Information con
cerning them. 1t only remains for
rs TO chronicle the proof given us
| by DR.. Schlesinger Of his spiritual
power. He asked Mr.. Trew tn
write on slips of paper u number of
names, one of them to he Of snme
dead friend These slips Mr.. Trew
folded up carefully, placed them in
q hat aud shook them up. They
were then handed to the Doctor,
one by one, aud when he was hand
ed the slip bearing the name of the
dead person. he announced the fact.
He then wrote the name, Archi-
bald Nc Lean, "back-hand,n on a
piece of paper, aud asked our rev.
erend companion to explain the
mysterious power, Of the possession
OF which he had Just given evil
dence. Mr.. Trew was forced to take
refuge in the Shakespearian quota
ton: "There are more things In
heaven and earth, HoratiO, than
are dreamt of in our philosophy
A similar, but in some respects
more difficult. test was given to the
writer. 4r. a., eat t1t =. .
We have refrained from touching
upon the purely theological ques.
tons connected with the beliefs of
the Society, contenling ourselves
with the mere presentation OF facts
and leaving everyone to form his
own opinion. 1t is not difficult to
forssee what that opinion will be;
but the members of the Society are
not in the slightest degree sensi-
tive in regard to public opinion,
and are perfectly Indifferent as to
any expressions concerning them.
In reading an English paper the
other day, we came across the fol-
lowing short article, which shows
that some of the. peculiar notions
OF the Society are entertained in
the Old World: - g'.s
A German physician has started
new theory with regard to food.
He maintains that both the vege ;
tarlans and the meat-eaters are on
the wrong track. Vegetables are
not more wholesome than n meat, or
meat than vegetables, aid nothing
Is gained by consuming a COM
pound of both. Whatever nutri-
tive qualities they may possess, he
says, are destroyed. In great meas
ure and often entirely, by the pro-
cess Of cooking. All food should be
eaten raw. II this practice were
adopted, there would be lite or no
illness among human beings. They
would live their apportioned time
and simply fade away, like AMI
mails in wild state, from old age.
Let those affilc with gout, rheu-
matism and Indigestion try for a
time the effect of simple uncook-
ed diet, such as oysters and fruit,
for instance, and they will find all