The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-19

mouthpiece 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 purifca-
tion Of the body by fasting 20 days is called.
Half a dozen persons have already starved
10 death in attempting this feat, possible
only TO a person with a 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 interfered.
Like Professor Totten, Mrs Williams
predicts the early end of the earth. She
claims that God has told her that dire Gu
lamities arc to precede the final event, Of
which the present hard times are mild
beginning. Before the close OF winter there
will be bloody war between labor aud
capital Anarchy will triumph. Society
will be overthrown and evil will succeed
evil until the end comes in the spring.
She makes the luckiess city of Portland
the starting point for these multifarious
evils. Great conhagrations will destroy it
and plague will fin its streets with rot
ting corpses. whose stencil will ill 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
derness" on the body and blood" From
now on all heshly longings must be sub
dued and not gratihed.
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courts because OF this injunction, while
several other families have been broken up.
Mrs Williams has just finished her sec
ond soiourn Of 40 days in the wilderness,
having undertak en- il because she feared She
was losing her power with God because Of
fieshly qualification. She has announced
that she has been in long personal commu-
nication with him and will have most inn
portant revelations 10 make. The fact that
che has not yet made these, one Of which is
supposed 10 be the exact time and nature
Of the end Of the world, has led timid people
TO fear that she will confide only In her IA
natical followers and that they may be-
come the active instruments Of the Lord in
producing the confagations and other evils
she predicts
The most remarkable claim Of Mrs Viii
liams IL that the devil Is resident in the
human BODY IN the Nefinllofm appendix.
This Is tiny organ Of the stomach, con
corning whose functions scientists have
ever been mystifed
THE form is very much that Of a snake
the original tempter." says Mrs. Viii
llams. when the body dies. this snake is
compelled TO crawl through hell the dark
and drcary caverns Of the center Of the
earth, through all eternity.
"Now, the scientists say this portion Of
the body il superiluous and injurious, and
that IL should be removed. This is a master
stroke on the DEVILS part. Was such sub
tlety ever equalelg The devil says TO his
people, 4, the devil. have directed the doc
tors how 10 cut the devil out Of YOU Nv
medical friends. don't you do iti You would
have nothing more TODD.
my friends. they may cut the devil out Of
you, but be will come back when you die.
Do a. have done, aud a. the 800 people in
this city who have passed through the will
derncss have done. Starve the devil out Of
you. lie cannot live on the body and blood
OF Christ for 20 days. a. have done. You
can starve him 10 death"