The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-04
THE MESSIAH COME.
The Queer History of an Illinois
Family Of Fanatics.
A Man Who Believes He is a Pro-
phet, and that His Mother
GaVe Birth to Christ
Ceme-HiS Proof.

cemetery near the grave of his mother
VINO had been buried bat few hours
announced tha. he was the prophe
OF GOD, devoted to complete the WorE
OF Elijah, joshua and Zerubabel
he said he was commissioned by God
from whom he had received manl
inspirations and proof multiplied siI
thousand times.
But" asked q reporter, "what
Lave you done toward fulfilling your
missiop?"
"All that could. About eighteen
months ago l wrote 600 lines o
blank verse in about four days il
token Of the 900 years Christ is t
rule the earth after his second com.
ing"
And you believed your mother
buried to-day. had conceived the
second Christi"
eyes. I firmly believed it and
believe it STILL"
"But the post norton examination
utterly abolishes even the remotes
possibility OF such thing" suggested
the astonished correspondent.
1.-The act was Gods, and no earthly
science could disproVe it. The child
Christ was conceived by my mother
within two weeks. She has been ex
amined by a party we'll posted 10
such matters. and the result of the
examination was most definitely ascer.
tanned. The child was there, and il
was a male child and Christ"
"How do you account for sll traces
having disappeared when the doctors
held the post-mortem?"
"The dragon was present at the
death of the body, ready to devour
the child, and it was borne up to
heaven. My mothers belief, main
tanned by myself was based OF the
twelfth chapter of Revelations. It is
recorded there that a great wonder
appeared in heaven. A woman
clothed with the SUD, a moon under
her feet and twelve CROWDS upon her
head. She was about to be delivered
of q child when a great red dragon
having seven heads and ten horns
appeared, snd after casting upon The
earth one-third part of the stars he
stood before the woman ready to de-
YOUR the child. She brought forth q
msn-child, who was to rule all ma.
tons with
ARoD OF IRON,
and the child was brought up unto
God and to His throne. The woman
then fled to the wilderness, and there
God fed her $3.50 days. The dragon
was the devil. and be was cast out of
heaven by Michael and his angels.
The woman was given the wings OF an
eagle, and in vain the devil attempted
to devour her."
''Do you believe your mother met
the fate of the woman mentioned in
the Bible?
81 do believe that within ten days,
or about June let, my mother and
her sister Maria, dead many years.
will be resurrected. and then Christ
will appear. have had Instructions
from God on this point, and 1 have
faith that all will come out as have
prophesied. 1 shall stay in the vicin-
isy of the cemetery until June 1st,
and If nothing transpireR l shall give
up the work and settle down to
preaching or 60 in to commercial bue-
mess. / am q graduate of the Adrian
(Michigan) Protestant Methodist
Church. and may adopt the pulpit a.
my profession"
"How did you get started on this
well, it is q long story. About
twelve years ago my mother had a
prophetic dream, in which she was
directed to dedicate herself and her
children to God, and she did 90. /
had a similar dream when / began
writing the 1000 lines referred to,
and when l began receiving my pro-
phecies from God"
"Have you ever had any tangible
evidence of your faithf"
PLENTY. For instance: l have
been cured of chronic diseases by
God; and am to day in fall possession
OF health and all my faculties. My
mother had evidence piled mountain
high"
SHOW did she come to fast?'
''she was directed by God to fast
forty days and at the end of that time
she was told that Christ would be
born to her,"
"Who told her sol"
"God."
but she died on Thursday, at the
end Of twenty-eight days, of starva-
tion?"
''she died, it is true, bat not Of
starvation, because she maintained
her precise weight through her i'll
ness. A pain in her left side caused
death, but there is another cause.
She had instructions from God to fast
forty days, and warned that friends
would come to her and
MAKE HER EAT,
and that if she did eat she would die.
1t came true on Thursday. Ny
mothers brother, W. w. SedgWick,
went to her and compelled her to
take some beef tea and she died that
same night. During the first three
days of the fast, when her heavenly
instructions to others Were,not carried
out, she became very hungry, but ae
soon as the acts commanded by God
were performed, her hunger ceased.
She received instructions to send ieE