The herald., 1895-07-19
The Salient Points of Their Doc.
trineS Shown
MORE GLARING IMMORTALITY
Excerpts From Various Chapters Bear.
ing on Marriage
Revealing the True Condition OF the Colo.
nists' Morality
An Interesting Chapter Concerning the Land
Of Shalam as Revealed to the Inspired
Author Of the Book

For all things are held in common.
Hooray! Hooray!l
Thus everything belongs to all.
And peace abounds in Shalam.
Away, away, away out west in Shalaml
The Falthist clan 10 by no means .
stranger to the courts of American JUS
tice. In August. 1891. member of e.
similar organization, bearing the same
name but located in Dona Ana county,
New Mexico. brought suit against the
leader for $4,000. He recovered judg-
ment and the defendants appealed, the
decision of the lower court being re-
versed by reason of legal errors in con-
ducting the case.
The title of the case is Ellis vs.. New
brough ct al, and the decision is found
in the Pacific Reporter, volume 27, page
490. In his complaint Ellis charged that
Newbrough had. in organizing the COM
munity, wrongfully and corruptly con-
trived to deceive and injure him. and
that he mad published certain false, fraud
uent and deceitful writings, falsely,
fraudulently and deceitfully pretending
in said writing to describe the true ma.
ture and objects of said community and to
set forth the true state uf facts in connec-
tion with said enterprise. and thereby to
induce the plaintiff to believe that said
objects and purposes of the defeAdants
were far different from what said defend.
ant really intended they should be. The
| declaration then proceeds to charge de-
! fenoant Newbrough with acts of tyranny
and also with living life of immortality.
He claimed before the lower court that
he and his two children were members Of
the New Mexico community from Octo-
ber. 1884, till April, 1886, and that he
was entitled toi remuneration for their
labor in the same. He was accordingly
awarded damages in the sum of $40, 900.
The defendants appealed the case and the
judgment was reversed by the supreme
court of New Mexico.
The most that can be gathered from the
volume is that the Faithists had con-
celved some Utopian schemes for the
ami lioration of all the ills, both temporal
soul are heir. They then located their
new Arcadia at Placentia, near Fullerton.
in the county of Orange, in the Santa
Ana valley. They christened their new.
found Vale of Tempe the Land of Shalam,
and sent forth their siren notes in an en-
deavor to beguile the individual with
plethoric purse into joining them in their
Elysian Kingdom.
The great volume is called Oahspe, and
it is represented as q new Bible in the
words OF Jehovaf and his Ambassadors,
a sacred history "a the dominions Of the
higher and lower heavens ON the earth for
the past "a, 900 years, together with q
synopsis Of the cosmogony of the uni
verse; the creation of man; the unseen
worlds; the labor and glory of the gods
and goddesses in the etherean heavens.
In the preface of the book it is SAID of il
| that ''it blows nobody's horn; it makes
no LEADER
The inspired author of this new revela-
| tion was doubtless somewhat familiar
| with the writings of his predecessors. He
had read of the jealousies that had arisen
| between Paul and Barnabas, so that he
takes particular pains to assure his dis
! ciples that these gospels were not IN.