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

pose; She was sent for and became the
followers are sometimes called Beekman.
,ees. They do not call themselves such.
neWeyer. The name of the new church n
ne church Triumphant soon discoy-
ereo that Mrs. Beekman's doctrine was diff
Ielent rom that Of any other evangelist Of
swnom nad ever heard or read. The tiif-
ference Was that Mrs. Beekman believed in
ana advocated the attainment OF the ideal
ISIS. her idea Of heaven was not that OBJ
saineo generally from the Scriptures, that
Is place beyond the skies. or some
where IN the universe where the good will
ENJOY celestial happiness after death. she
Deiieved that heaven was right here on
earth and could be realized by following
the seif-sacrifice of Jesus, and initiating
nim IN all things. She did not believe that
man would be physically immortal, but
that there would be continuation of the
celestial state
On leaving said: i shall thank God
LOT all eternity that have met you.'
Meantime had been in constant cor
respondence with Mrs. Beekman, who was
stili at Byron. The ideas held from child
hood are not easily dispossessed. and il
Was not until the summer of 1879 that
had entirely and completely rejected those
TO Byron about that lime TO see Mrs. Beck
man and lived in her home for while.
She grew upon my mind. believed her
70 De character OF divine mag nJtude and
fuliness. believed this, too. inteIligentIy.
was conversant with the lives OF sucb
women as Nine: Guion, Ann Lee. Hester
Ann Rogers and others. but 1 knew there
was more of goodness in her than there
was in the ideas of any of those. The de-
velopment OF the physical being up 10 such
mental belief as l now had was neces-
sarily SLOW. | could, however. recognize
the workings of life and strength in me.
In youth / had been fraIl--so frail that /
often thought experienced the feeling Of
death coming over me. | also had q
chronic catarrh. But felt myself throw.
ing OF my physical failings; / was rising
Gut OF the infirm conditions which had sur.
rounded my youth: my horizon was now
illuminated: there was more of an object
Ior me IN NE; l was growing stronger in
soul and body.
" joy was in me. The years went by
rapidly. Companies were established at
byron, Chicago. Ross Grove, Plum River
and st. Charles in Illinois, Kansas City.
NO., and buena Vista. Col. Mrs. Beekman
cisabused her followers of the idea that the
body OF Jesus OF Nazareth was away off in
the sky somewhere. She taught them that
the body had been disposed of by God and
not been astronomicaly translated as
Christians believe. Her followers soon
ceased 60 believe In the temperance of
the physical man of Nazareth. she iaugnt
mat there would be no physical resurrec-
uot. Sne Claimed that tie distance be-
tween lie and aeain, however could pe
greatly heightened by moral betlerment
She adduced ample evidence that The life
OF man was much shorter than IL nee was
from the Scriptures. The decrease in the
term OF existence she attributed soleiy to
the increase of immortality. If man were
better he would live longer Increase in
goodness would be followed by a cores
ponding longevity. In the spring OF 1888
Mrs. Beekman died in Buena Vista, Col.
when Mrs. Beekman died. the eyes of
all the members of the church which she
had founded were directed toward me-
What she had told them had prepared
them for what was to come. She had often
told them that God had revealed to her
that she should be the spiritual mother OF
him who would be the worlds savior. The
Scripturai passage in which this event was
,etoid IS The twelf chapter of Revela-
tons: And there appeared great WON
der IN heaven; woman clothed with the
sun and the moon unuer her feet, and upon
her head = crown OF twelve stars. And
she brought forth a man chi d who was to
rule all nations with rod of iron, and her
child Was caught up TO God upon his
throne
This bringing forth she interpreted en-
tirely in the spiritual sense. 1t was so re-
vealed to her. She spoke to various per-
sons about her revelation and made me &C
quainted with 1t.
I'm what way did that revelation come
to her ?" asked the correspondent.
ut came TO her about ten years before
her death, and Was simply an eternal open.
ing OF her understanding. While about
her household duties one day she was sud
deniv srizesi with an ecstacv OF so ]. and IL