The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-20
CYRUS TEED THEIR KING
A CHICAGO Scot THAT CLAIM
HEAVENLY CONNECTIONS.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
One hundred and forty and four thou
sand persons are going to sing new song
before many years. All the vocalists will
be gods and their stage will be on Mount
Zion. The new song will be the Song of
Immortality" 1t will be original and pop
ular, and, while all the members of the great
chorus have not yet been selected. about
| fifty of them are in training for the grand
concert at the College of Life, at and 4
College Place. The College of Life is the
head centre of the Koreshan sect in Chi
| cago aud in the world. 1t is q large pre-
| tentious structure built Of brown stone and
brick, at the northwest corner of Cottage
Grove avenue and College Place. op poste
the ruins of old College university. In its
! spacious rooms and halls the Koreshau
unity worships, eats and sleeps. DR.. C.
K. iced, the founder of the Koreshan
church or creed, or whatever it may be
called, is the ruler OF the college and
all its inmates. OF the latter there are a
dozen men and three times as many women,
ell sworn to celibacy and to the practice Of
a communism that brings all their nosses-
sions and earning into a common Golfer, the
key of which is, of course, held by DIR.
iced. Husbands and wives are OF the mum
Der Of inmates, but they live apart. There
|
lege, leaving out in the world husbands and
children. There are husbands who have
| left their wives, and there are unmarried
men and women, too, who have forever
forsowrn matrimony. They have been
taught to believe, by DIR. iced, that the
propagation of the human race should be
left to the wicked, until the cycle of the
| Nazareth is completed, when there will be
one hundred and forty and four thousand
gods, and new genus Of man, each god.
| A reporter said that he would like to see
the head man of the institution, and was
Informed that Cyrus was down at the
| Guiding Star office getting out tho F2um-
| ing SI0Ordn Cyrus is Dr.. Teed, who is be-
lieved by his disciples to be anointed Of the
lord and minister plenipotentiary from
the Celestial government. The Flaming
StOord Is the official organ of the Koreshan
Unity, and the Guiding Star Publication
Compauy's office, at 36l9 Cottage Grove
| avenue, is the shop from which it is issued
The type for the paper is set by men and
women from the college, and all the other
work is done by inmates of the same insti-
tuition. Nobody draws any wages. The in
mates who are not needed in the printing
shop make shirts and other garments in the
| college. Cyrus receives the pay for their
| worA, or at least the common Golfer gets it.
Some other inmates have positions outside
but they bring their wages home in untorn
envelopes every Saturday night
The scene in the Guiding Star office was
a busy one. DR.. iced was putting the
finishing touches to an editorial leader on
"The Physico- Cosmogonical Basis of Kore-
| shan Science" He had just completed a
| long dissertation designed to prove that the
earth is a hollow ball and that we are living
on the inner crust of it.
~ am DR.. Teed," he said in answer to an
| inquiry.
| "A M Won ara Cxrr,,s tor o,,arfad tbo go
porter.
The doctor acknowledged that he was
| Cyrus and said; There is no objection to an
| inspection of our institute and our creed
will live when the religions of those who are
railing at us have passed into oblivion. |
am the founder of the Koreshan church. |
have been in Chicago for three years
Koresha means the science of life, and
| hence we call our institution the College of
Life. All are welcome to join us. Appli-
| cants must put all their possessions into
common fund, and thereafter they must
work and live for common purpose. We
believe that Christ is the fullness of the
godhead bodily, and the incarnation Of the
manifestation of Jehovah. We believe
| that Jehovah was involved in humanity,
proceeding from the human race, as
the germ of q new race of man,
that is to be involved or unfolded
| from him. We believe that this theocrasies
| or translation was the dissolving of his per-
sonal form, and that the product Of the
| combustion of his body is the outpouring of
the Holy Ghost, which will bring about
new genus of man, not through maa
woman. There have been four ages-the
mineral, the vegetable, the animal and the
human. The fifth age will be that of the
regenerated genus of man. We are cell
bates, because we believe that the marriage
rite of modern churches is nothing more nor
| less than the second curse mentioned in
| Genesis. The first curse was on the serpent.
The second was on the woman, making her
the slave and victim Of the passions of man.
The third curse means the battle between
Cog and Magog, or the bloody contest that
will soon be waged between capital and
labor, Then will follow the regeneration of
man, and the grand song on Mount ZION"
| "When is all this to occur?o was asked,
"Within this generation; the cycle of
"a 900 years has almost passed away, and the
end is at hand. Teen we will have gov
eminent like unto that which now obtains
| in our College of Life. Bellamy's dream Of
Looking Backward" will be accomplished,
but not without the shedding of blood. In
our college we are preparing for all these
things. Our life there is quiet and holy,
| and we have never attracted the attention
of the police. We have never broken up
families, as has been charged, founded
| this church In 1870, and have never been in
conflict with the authorities. We have 200
professed believers In Chicago, including
many entire families, the members of which
practice all our teachings"
"Do you teach your followers that you
are possessed of divine attributes"
II do claim to be born of the Lord. The
ministers of every church claim that they
are called by the Lord. What Is born of a
baboon is a baboon. II | am born of God
AN god. Ii preachers claim to be born of
God, and say they are not gods, they are a
pack Of liars aud hypocrites."
81 understa d you have been spending
vacation over in heaven said the reporter
Chow are things over that wayT'
| II made no claim that l was there phys-
cally, but | have been in communication
with heaven for twenty years. There are
people living in this nelghborhood who
maiign and abuse and misinterpret me. So
does the pulpit, and ! have no means of
getting back at my traducers save through
| the columns of The flaming S10ord. You
may be sure / use them"
What has latterly called attention to DIR.
iced and his followers was a rumpus which
occurred there on Sunday evening, when
| Thomas Cole, of S31 North Halstead street,
attempted to see mis- wife, who, he claims,
has taken refuge in the college His story,
and there are others like it told, is as fol-
| lows:
''Seven years ago | married Miss Ana
| CrostAn whose brother is district attorney