The Jewish outlook., 1905-09-08

by frugality and industry gained possession
of a large tract of fertile farming land on
which they employed 500 laborers. Their
property has always been in the hands OF
their leaders. Honesty and conscience nave
been the only safeguards they have mad
aaginst being robbed AS the wealth OF the
society has increased the number of its mem
bers has decreased. Ten years ago there
were alive thirty. Two three years ago,
ten To-day, perhaps, death has still FUR
Their decimated their ranks. The aged sur
vivors now see at their head worldly man,
who not only has disregarded the rule requir-
ing celibacy, but goes about the country di-
recting a band and managing plays. The
seventy years of toll and fasting OF an en-
tire community have been for thls!'
Katherine A. Tingley, once hailed by the
Theosophists the successor OF Madame
Blavatsky, has established colony OF her
followers at Point Iona, California. Says
Mr.. Kirby:
Mrs. Tingley calls her colony the School
for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries OF
Antiquity. To establish it, she bought no
tel beautifully situated on an eminence com
handing wide view of the surrounding land
and water and spent $780, 900 in embelllSh-
ing the ground. This money was contributed
by three or four individuals, one of them be-
ing A. G. Spalding, the New York manufac-
turer of sporting goods.
I'm the Greek temple which she has built
she presides as high prestess, and has in
vented ritual which has proved so offens-
i've to many of the Theosophsts that they
have rebeled from her authority.
Mr. Kirby goes on to tell OF other queer
religious societies.:
"At Bar Harbor, Michigan, is the settle
ment of the Lost Tribes of Israel. They
believe that Satan will be driven from the
world forever in 1916 and that from that year
mankind will be snless The society is un.
der the leadership of Benjamin Purnell He
has absolute control of the property OF all
the members. 1t is type of many similar
communities.
"The Sun Worshipers may be called
metropolitan cult, because little Roadway has
been made in PROSECUTING outside of Greater
New York The leader Of these people is
DR.. Hanish, very young-looking old man
whose splendid physical condition is not
credited to the care he has taken of himself
but to the rejuvenating effects of his philOs-
ophy Among his followers is Louis Potter,
cousin of Bishop Henry G. Potter of New
York. . The Sun Worshipers represent
what may be called the fad type of religions,
of which there are many They are usually
based upon Oriental Occultism.''
"A different type, but quite common,
is the Society of Angel Dancers of Lords
Farm, Woodcliff, New Jersey. This is rem
devious for miscellaneous fanatics. These
men are earnest and sincere but uncouth
and vulgar. AS yet they not rich but
their thrift is piling up a morsel which will
in time tempt some prophet-fnancier.
"The Holy Ghost and Us Society, at Shi-
lob, Maine, is a community which has gained
so much notoriety during the past few years
that list of queer religions would not be
complete without some reference to it. The
society was founded by Frank w. Sanford,
it's present head. This man yields absolute
petty despotism upon the doubling members
IF tho families Of converts. AGAINST which