The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-05
TO REFORM HYMEN
ONE PROPHET WHO Is DISSATISFIED
WITH PRESENT MARRIAGES
Claims That He Has Seen God and in
Revelation Has Been Command
ed 10 Marry His own Daughter
Some of the Queer Arguments
Which are Advanced.

The EAGLE has great reputation for
finding new prophets aud he minute any
thing If that kind appears in the south
west the EAGLE is at once notified.
A new prophet has been found and he is
decidedly strange. He claims to have seen
aud talked with God and gives descrip-
tion of the Supreme Being, even to the
color of His eyes aud the fact that He has
10 beard. The particular doctrine that
this prophet teaches is that it is all right
for kin to marry kin. and he puts forth an
argument for this heretical claim that
like produces like, and the seed of tree
produces after its own kind.
The new prophet is named John Fetzer
aud he lives at Larimer, Montgomery
county, Kansas which is somewhere near
Independence. The documents which he
sends to the EAGLE are very queer. In his
note lie says:
Gods doctrine has been mailed for pub
lication to about eighteen hundred differ
rnt newspaper publishing companies in
Europe aud America. Gods rulings per
tanning to marriage; Gods banners in in
scriptions, etc.. are numbered as mailed.
Each of them enclosed and signed as they
may hereafter become separated. Copies
of enclosed have been sent by registered
letter TO governors of forty states-also
Gods doctrine included. God doctrine is
to replace Christ's doctrine. God said un-
10 ME: Christ was only man. Christ
was one of the 10000 elect. Christ was
as many times less (In power) than God, as
moment of time Is less than eternity.
Christ may have been good healer but if
be taught AS is now being given In the bi-
bic. then surely be WAS not good doc
trine teacher, because his teaching or his
supposed teaching does not cOiucde with
Gods revelations, Wis ons. etc, therefore
such teaching was OF no value whatever.
Moses. or supposed Moses the liar taught
that God created man aud took part of
the man and made woman thereof, and
they became husband and wife, and vet
he taught thai God said TO him that kin
1red shall not become husband AMI wife.
See bible. Leviticus, chapter IS L teach
The same as God taught me-"
John FETZER, GODS Commander
Here follows tie enclosed doctrines. The
first is numbered S95 aud is entitled Gods
Rulings Pertaining to Marri age"
QUEER TALK FOR PROPHET.
1t reaus: "All laws enacted 10y man
prohibiting the marriage (the becoming of
husband aud wife) of kindred, regardless
of the nearness of their being related By
blood or birth, are contrary to Gods rul-
ings People having become man aud
wife near kindred, all hongh they are the
very nearest, have not violated Gods rul
ings The laws of man dare not he in con-
flict with God's rulings, because if we i'll
force them and bring suffering of any ma
ture whatever upon kindred for having
become husband and wife God will surely
avenge them of their wrongs because the
ACT is marriage, or the becoming of hus-
band and wife Gods commander excepted
Nn Gn6 SaiH TD- 4,
rlay OF November, 1890, about five TO SIX
O'c.o ock p m. meaning my daughter Hui
da, she Is your wife,
The second document is numbered 262
and it Is entitled AN Explanation" II
reads: Gods object for marriage (the
becoming of husband and wife) surely is
TO produce people so that when one class
(9eneratlon) of people l. dead another class
is living the living class produces future
class and die and so continue to produce
and die possibly forever. To breathe, to
eat, the becoming husband aud wife, etc,
are necessities III order that the world may
remain peopled-tberefore ceremony is un-
necessary. | know nOrhng Of divorces
(separatioDs) because divorces are not a
necessity, for if no husbands and wives
were ever divorced the world would still
continue to be peopled. The marriage of
kindred is an institution of God, but
whether the marri"gr Of ?, ople who are
not kindred is "a violation Of Gods rulings
am unable to say.
CLAIMS HE SAW GOD.
The prophet ADDS postscript TO this, in
which lie says: IF there were no thieves
10 locks would be necessary, anf if there
were no bau people no marriage records
would be kept II people in marriage
make bad choice, or supposed bad
choice, and remain not husband aud wife,
but separate, one from the other. whether
it be soon after marriage or IN long time
"A year) thereafter. they viii do so (sepa-
rate) at their own risk of its being great
wrong, because the act of marriage ami the
becoming of husband and wife mean the
same thing BY the marriage IF kindred
the people produced will he pure (un-
mixed) because similar produce similar
and dissimilar produce dissimilar (miXec)
According to Gods rulings (rrr, neou~iy
called natures lnw-) the seed of "A tree viii
pro luce The same kind OF Il tree as the tree
Is that bore the seed"
In The rhird document which is num-
o red 800, Fe' Ter giv-s his description OF
Sod. He Says: Gods counteuance Is
calm aud open. His eyes are full opeu,
and think that they are of a DARK brown
color, but there are fine yellow or yellow
sh siresks contained in The dark brown
color which give them some'r hat yellow
sh color. He has no beard"
EeiZer then GOES on to give the Suoject
matter OF a vision received b. his son, j
Milo F-izsr, age - years. lie says there
IS going 90 be great war, This i what
ne SAYS: "God's WAY. There will he a
CREST war in Europe and America in the
year 1895. beginning probably during the
month OF May. TIE light men will stand
and the dark men will fall. The Nor, h
Atlantic ocean will thereafter divide the
nation and the city OF New York will be
The capits. (mes,iing that paIt Of the ma
lion formed will be on each side Of the
Atlantic oc-au)n
All the documents are signed: John
FeIZer. God's Commander" FeiZer in
supp rmentary note says that he has read
the Koran and be does not think that
Mob mined was the chosen of God.
The documents are very queer and
strange forms Of punctuation are used
which are unknown in the EAGLE Office.