The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-01


throughout this community. They are
known in commonplace life as M
Nielsen. Nina Nielsen and Annie Neil
sen. but among an increasing band OF
disciples they are reverenced as Little
King David, the Mother of Christ the
Lord, and the Virgin Mary. A sort Oh
fenple or spiritual headquarters has
been established at 221 West First
South, and thither many people flock
daily to hear the new dispensatlon
which the Neilsens aver they nave
from a prenatal existence.
The number of converts to the new
religion is not so astonishing when
once if becomes known that the Neil
sens are fluent in the Danish ana
scandinavian tongues and count their
newly made followers almost entirely
among those nationalities. w me
neither Little King David nor ms WlIe
claim anything supernatural for their
own personalities, they do preach thdl
they have been relncarnated three
times. This is the third and last time
they will ever appear upon the eartn,
the millennium being due before they
vanish forever from terrestrial me M
Nielsen is only a name conferred Dy
earthly parentage for present pur-
poses. Nina Nielsen, the wife, was
the creation of Adam and Eve and the
Garden of Eden. She was the mother
of God and bases a portion of her IN
depreciation of this obscure title upon
the following passage from the revela-
tions of st. John, wherein the prophet
says xii: ]. 2 and 3: And there ap-
peared a great wonder in heaven;
woman clothed with the sun and the
moon under her feet, and upon her
head a crown of Y stars; and she be-
ing with child, cried, Travelling in
birth and pain to be delivered. And
she brought forth man child, who
was to rule all nations with rod OF
iron; and her child was caught up
unto God and TO his throne"
BORN THE SECOND TIME.
The second time Mrs Nielsen was
born was before the birth of David,
who slew Goliath NJ. Nielsen, or Lit
same time as his wife. They were
both fed to animals in an eastern
arena, these animals being the spirits
Of those who afterward put Christ to
death.
Annie Nielsen, who is called the
daughter of Little King David and the
mother Of God, is not their offspring,
reincarnation of Mary, mother of
Christ, and was found by the Neilsens
in some mysterious manner She has
always been and will ever remain pure
and undefiled, and the ultimate mis-
sion Of both the women is to purge the
world at the last day This is her see
ond- appearance on searth. Miss Neil
sen should be, judging from appear
ances, about IS years of age. She is
dull and very plant in the hands OF
her god-parents.
Both Of the women are attired in
costumes the like of which no person
has ever seen before These garments
have been worn about the streets of
Salt Lake ever since the family came
here last October and have aroused
no end of comment and wonder Queer
bell-crown turbans adorn their heads
and short, heavy waists with no cor
sages, which end at the hips. are be-
strewn with singular necklaces and an
inscription in English stretches across
the breast Of each. 1t says, "KnowI-
edge is power" The skirts are plain.
Around the necks of each are three
strings of amber-colored beads.
There is not a yestige of the dress
but has its peculiar significance Each
woman also carries while walking upon
the streets a small broom, symbolicaI
of their mission to sweep the world |
Both of them are absolutely free of /
any communicating sin.
QUEEN OF THE WORLD AT PRES
ENT.
Mrs. Nielsen is queen of the world at
present, but her husband may not share /
in this exaltation. He has partaken
of the accused thing and must earn
MS own livelihood by the sweat of his |
brow and eat of the dust of the earth.
as well as provide for the holier por-
ton of his family. Little King David
traces his heredity back to many ex-
he
them being chapter xxi:12th. 18th and
14th verses of jeremiah, which say:
20 house of David, thus saith the Lord
Execute judgment in the morning and
deliver him that is spoiled out of the
hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go
out like fire and burn that none can
quench 1t because of the evil of your
doings. Behold l am against thee. O /
inhabitant of the valley and rock of
the plain, saith the Lord; which say.
Who shall come down against US? or
who shall enter into our habitations?
But 1 will punish you according to
the fruit of your doings saith the Lord
and ] viii kirdle a fire in the forest
thereof and II shall devour all things
round about it."
This little King David takes it to
signify that he has sinned in his pre-
natal existence as the original sin
committed by the heretofore supposed
par ems VI llAG idCS- MI nielsen saws
that he was made first aware of his
real personality when between his
9th and 9TH years, and while still liv-
ing in Copenhagen.
In a meeting one day a Mormon mis-
arose and called upon little
King David to arise.
LITTLE KING DAVID STOOD UP.
There was a profound sensation. but
the spirit entered into little Nielsen and
he climbed upon a bench to show him
self as when the spirit called TO Sam
uel. The physical popularity of the
Nielsen family is that all of them are
very much below the average heighth.
Little King David is not more than (
five feet and both of the women are a
Irifie less in stature. They are not
of Danish extraction All of
them were of course Hebrews, as Mr. |
Nielsen declares, and this assertion is
borne out by the traces of the Semitic
nation in their faces. They We're born {
n Denmark and emigrated to Utah as
of the Mormon church during
he SOS. After settling al Logan the :
iamily remained obscure until 1890
when their third dispensation began. s
1t was occasioned. says Mr. Nielsen. '
0y the division of the Mormon people $
N political lines. Whereupon it was
'evealed to him that all of that peoDIe +
lad fallen from grace and were no t
onger the chosen ones of God He ]
claims that not one true Mormon re-
mains but the three who are now en- [
ragged in spreading the purer religion.
INST what IL fOrpciCp C11a1ifioo f;o,,-