The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-02-10

mouthpece of the Almighty, and subsists
on a diet of body and blood" while lead
ing her followers through the wilder
ness"
That is the phase by which the purifica.
tion Of the body by fasting 40 days is called.
Half dozen persons have already starved
to death in attempting this feat, possible
only to a person with vigorous constitu-
tion. OF such as these, the high priestess
of this new cult says that they did not
keep faith with God, and he killed them.
The police have inquired into these cases
several times, but only where parents have
undertaken TO starve their children have
they iuterfered.
Like Professor Totten, Mrs. Williams
predicts the carly end Of the earth. She
claims that God has told her that dire ca
lamities are to precede the final event, of
which the present hard times" are mild
beginning Before the close of winter there
will be a bloody war between labor aud
capital. Anarchy viii triumph Society
will be overthrown and evil will succeed
evil until the end comes in the spring.
She makes the luCkless city of Portland
the starting point for these mutifarious
evils. Great conflagrations will destroy it
and plague will fill its streets with rot
ting corpscs, whose stencil will fill the air.
To shut out from the eyes of the holy few
such sights she has had window blinds
made for her house, in which the select
band will gather in their pure robes and be
prepared to ascend when the final cata-
clysm shall come. Meanwhile all must pu-
rify themselves by 'going through the will
deness" on the body and blood " From
now on all fieshly longings must be sub
dued and not gratified.
Already there is one divorce case in the
courts because of this injunction, while
several other families have been broken up.
Mrs. Williams has just finished her sec
ond sojourn of 40 days in the wilderness,
having undertaken it because she feared she
was losing her power with God because of
fleshly qualification. She has announced
that she has been in long personal commu-
nication with him and will have most i'm
portant revelations to make. The fact that
she has not yet made these, one of which is
supposed to be the exact time and nature
of the end of the world, has led timid people
to fear that she will confde only in her ia.
natical followers and that they may be-
come the active Instruments of the Lord in
producing the contagatious and other evils
she predicts.
The most remarkable claim Of Mrs Will.
liams is that the devil is resident in the
human body in the vermifurm appendix.
This is a tiny organ of the stomach, con-
cerning whose functions scientists have
ever been mystitied.
"The form is very much that of a snake
the original tempter," says Mrs. Will
liams. "When the body dies, this snake is
compelled to crawl through hell, the dark
and dreary caverns of the center of the
earth, through all eternity,
Now, the scientists say this portion of
the body is superhuous and injurious, and
that it should be removed, This is a master
stroke on the devils part. Was such sub,
tlety ever equaleds The devil says 20 his
people, I, the devil, have directed the doc,
tors how to cut the devil out of YOU My
medical friends, don't you do i'll You would
have nothing more todo.
My friends, they may cut the devil out OF
you, but he will come back when you die
Do as have done, and as the 800 people in
this city who have passed through the will
derness have done. Starve the devil out of
you. He cannot live on the body and blood
Of Christ for 20 days as | have done. You
can starve him to deaah. "