The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-15

together by the hope Of a speedy nil
lenni1m. This golden age is sup
posed to be due in 1917.
Everything on earth is to be put
straight by a legion Of angels, and then
n earth is to be ruled FOR 1000 years
by a congress of 1000 "immOrtals.'
All true believers now living will be
permitted to retain their bodies through
all eternity, if they survive until the
millennium arrives
This sect is to be found in twenty
states Of the Union.
One of the oldest of the new religions
is the Persian Babism. which numbers
400 believers in New York, 500 in Ken
osha. Wis, and LOCO in Chicago.
The headquarters of this faith is the
eastern city OF Acre, which became Ia
nous during the rusades. The founder
OF the Babists was a young Persian
named Mira Ali MohammaG, who was
shot by the soldiers of the shah in 1850.
In the Persian language the word
Bah means the 7ate,' or the way.
Mohammad proclaimed himself to be
the Bah" and his followers increased
until today they number a million in
Persia and Asia Minor.
The present leader of the Babists is
named Abbas fendi He has a coun-
Gil of eighteen disciples, who are called
Letters" Nineteen is regarded by the
Babists as a sacred number. They di-
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nineteen days each. Their Bible is a
book written by the Bah" and called
the Bayou"
The Babists believe in equality and
simplicity of life. They prohibit beg
ging, celibacy and intemperance.
1t was at the Chicago worlds con-
7 greSs of religions that Babism was first
introduced into the United States. A
Persian named Ibrahaim Kheiraliah de-
livered a course of fifteen lectures, and
in this way obtained a nucleus of con-
verts.
Similar to Babism is the new religion
which is being preached by the Bud
dhist Swamis in New York. Swami
Abedhananda breaches every Sunday in
a hall on Fifty-ninth street to about
/ 800 believers.
The Swamis are a class of philosoph-
ical Buddhist who have developed a
form of pantheism which attracts those
who are inclined to mysticism and oc-
cult speculations.
Perhaps the very latest of the new re-
Iigions is tina which is being preached
by ex-Professor George D.. Heron. In
spite of the recent exposures Of the
divorce court, d. Heron has a fol-
lowing of at least $500 in New York
City and Of over 5000 in Chicago.
The Herronites are a class of people
who have localized social reform into
a ANl6Abll- 1UEN d1t oil llUIOuS
socialists and believe in public owner
ship of everything in sight.
They believe that the servant should
move in the same social circles as her
employer; that Mr.. Rockefeller, for in
stance, and his table boy should walk
arm in arm to the Union club and
sit in the same pew at church: that it
is half a crime to be rich and half a
virtue to be poor. 1t is one of their
. sayings that None but earners are
honest"
Among the smaller religions which
have scarcely secured a foothold as yet
are Solar Biology" which says that
all human actions are regulated by the
movements of the planets; the Church
OF the Silent Desire, founded by Prem
tice milford, whose members believe
h a everything they patiently wish for
! they will obtain; 'Substantialism.'
originated by DR.. Hall, who maintained
that the soul has the same form and
shape as the body. and "ZorOastrian-
ISM" which proclaims an eternal uni
verse.