New-York tribune., 1901-05-28
HEBRON UEDS HISS RAND.
HE PLANS A NEW COOPERATIVE COM
MONWEALTH
USED FOR AN INSTITUTION TO FIGHT
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

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USED FOR AN INSTITUTION TO FIGHT
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Professor George D. Heron and Miss Carrie
! Rand were announced as married yesterday by
a ceremony in which there were neither vows
nor ring, nor even the slightest outward token
of the form of marriage. Professor Heron for
| merly occupied a chair in the University of
/ Iowa, and was member of the Congregational
/ Church. He is now the leader of a new cult
! known as the Social Crusade, and which be-
! lieves lin the emancipation of man from all
| law, either religious or civil"
/ Miss Rand is the daughter of Mrs f. d. Rand.
who endowed the chair which Professor Heron
| once held. Mr. Heron deserted his first wife
/ and she recently obtained legal separation.
The ceremony at which Professor Heron and
Miss Rand were pronounced man and wife took
! place at the Schuyler apartment house, No 80
! West Forty-ffth- at o'clock last Saturday
| evening About twenty guests were present.
! The party had assembled in the rooms of Dr.
! Charles Brodie Patterson the Editor of Mind,
and also an ardent believer in the social crusade
Mr.. Heron and Miss Rand faced the gathering
and said. one after the other
/ We announce TO all present that We intend
to take each other man and wife"
>Tney did not even exchange look, while they
\spoke. The Rev William T. Brown pastor of
The Plymouth Church, of Rochester, y. Y, then
pronounced the couple man and wife in the
following words.
Inasmpch, therefore as George D. Heron Tor ,i and
of reciprocal love. I that they are hus-
band and wife by every law OF right ana truth.
all true souls and the abiding gladness that dwells
in the heart of God forever
The marriage has excited widespread comment
| in church circles. The ceremony is said 10 come
at time when the Social Crusade has just
begun missionary work in this city. Its efforts
are chiefly directed against the orthodox
churches. It's ultimate plan is to establish, in
stead of the present social system Of civil and
religious law, a cooperative commonwealth.
The commonwealth idea put into practice
Immediately after the ceremony when Mrs.
Rand presented the couple with thirty-fve
acre farm near Metuchen n. ]. Here the two
are to live. Others who are interested in the
new brotherhood are invited TO live with them.
The different members Of this cooperate COM
monwealth' are 10 call each other comrades
AT the marriage Mr. Heron and Miss Rand
were announced as comrades" The idea Of
marriage held by this cult is best shown by the
following words from the speech of Mr.. Brown
after the announcement;
Nowhere has the religious institution so nearly
approached the frontiers of vital truth as in con-
has it departed so far from all that is divine and
enno6ag as IN SupPos:ns taat any W45d OF priest
official, civil or religious. can ever create this
70 give to that which is sacred if at ALL by the
supreme hat OF pure and perfect love The di-
state II ah!des forever In human; Human life
tolerable only In the measure Of their recognt-
These friends OF ours announce today their mar
rase They do So not primarily because our faulty
deeper and diviner reason they do not assume
that their life belongs to them alone nor even that
ali his esgtby fe win His shining footprinis is
theirs 10 hoard and hide In asserting the limit
less freedom and the boundlesss authority of love
OF God and anticipate a worlds emancipation.
Those present were Mrs. f. d, Rand, the
brides mother; Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Waldo
Urine, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Markham. DR..
Charles Brodie Patterson. Bolton Hail. Leonard
D. Abbott. William Mailly. William Thursten
Brown Margaret Wien. Mabel MacCoy Irwin.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Wentworth. Mr.. and
Mrs Darwin ]. Meseroe. Arthur Farwell, Rich
ard lie Galiienne, Miss Kendall and Miss Melck.
Prior to the ceremony MIR Heron told those
present why he had taken this step. He made
no reference. however, so it is said. TO his
former membership in the Congregational
In the last pamphlet issued by the Social
Crusade Mr.. Brown, who performed the cere-
mony. is mentioned as a new brother. He is
further spoken of as follows:
His socialist writings read wherever the
fame of socialism, among the purest express
sion of thought regarding the cooperative COM
monwealth have been put in type.
The fierce enmity of the cult TO the orthodox
churches is evidenced in the following passages
from the pamphlet:
Our work in New-York has met with great OBJ
stacles. This is because New-York is tremendously
churchrdden. Its ecclesiastical parasitsm is posi-
lively stupefyng, and the more economic life prod
the Church absorbs the greater is the result in
spiritual poverty. The Easter collection Grace
Church aggregated 100000. and despite the fact
that two-thrdS of the population of Manhattan is
living in degraded and soul destroying poverty this
money is to be spent in building an addition for
housing the choir boys; tribute to pomp and dis
play aesthetic sensualism ungodly as it is vase
full.
1t is said that colony of the sect has al
ready been estab blished in apartment house
uptown