The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-17

was made plain to her that she was to be
inas woman spoken of in the scriptures
u1o she tell you that you were to be
ner spiritual sonf''
Yes, when the conviction that was to
De the Savoir came upon her she impaired
u TO me and TO her followers. .
We're Won prepared 70 believe IL 2"
realized that what she said meant
much, and / left it to time to develop
wnether or not her revelation was to be
,uInlied. The intensity Of light and truth
kept increasing IN me. and in few
months after Mrs. Beekman's death
called fellowship meeting in Byron.
gave TO the people substantially Mrs.
beeKrman's statement of her doctrine and
ner position. At that time my people
looked upon me a. . pre-eminent minis
Ter. Soon afterwards there arose necessi-
YES YES and those in whom they became man.
Hest looked to me. At the expiration of
three or four years after Mrs. Beekman's
death the people of whom / was at the
head began to believe that I represented
Christ in full. In . short time there was
stu further advance made. and IL was
boldly asserted that was Christ: that His
light. His saving power. were all in me-
uprooting of good deal of the old theol-
ogy and the lmplanting of some new. The
reason why the people believed 1 was
Christ was the effect which had been pro-
duced upon their lives bv my teaching.
They believed that the promise Of Scripture
were localized in the character which l
Was proving 70 be.
Was yo6 divinity made manifest to
your"
Eyes. my understanding was illuminated
and perceived that what God promised
had come TO pass"
Has your church been growing since
you were proclaimed the Christ who was to
conner"
Yes, the church has been growing
steadily, bu, like all reforms, this, too, is
meeting with many rebuffs."
Speaking of the company which dwells
IN his house, Schweinfurth said:
at has been said that / had twice as
many women as men here, but that is not
SC"
Has it not been charged. too, that the
life here was one of free lover"
Yes, tina. and such similar villainous
allegations have been made against us.
Such an idea started, no doubt, from the
fact that there have been no marriages
among u.s.
You don't believe in marriage, then? ?"
On The contrary, we believe that it is
the hottest state man or woman can enter
into. We do not believe that q man or
woman should enter into it because of
mere affinity. If there is an alliance We
believe it ought to be one in which the
souls of the persons are brought together
in holy way; all other considerations be-
i'm absent from the mind. You know that
under those conditions there would be very
few marriages. Thus far none have oc-
CURED among US. but one may occur at
any time. Speaking about what measures
he was taking TO make himself known as
the promised Messiah, Schweinfurth said
that he ha bis ministers and messengers
in a number OF places. He also said that he
was constantly in receipt of correspondence
from all parts of the country. Many per-
sons, too, came to see him from distance.
The time would come, he said, before long,
when he would be generally recognized as
the Son of God, and the Church Trium-
plant would prevail.