The San Francisco call., 1906-06-17
ANOTHER
PROPHET
APPEARS
New Chief Comes for the
Jezreelites in
England
He Promises to Save All
His Followers From
Disaster.
Claims Ability to Cure All
Diseases and Says He
Is Immortal.
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.

SPEClAL CABLE TO THE CALL.
LONDON, June 16.--One of the preg-
nant utterances of the late P. T Bar
mum, who knew a great deal more of
human nature than one can ever learn
from books, was to the effect that the
world would come to an end before the
supply of fools ran short There was
fresh sucker" he said, born every
minute. So there can be no doubt that
Michael Keyfor Mills, erstwhile of De-
troit. Michigan, United States of
America, who has proclaimed himself
the Prince Michael foretold by the
Prophet Daniel and the heaven-ap-
pointed successor of James Jershom
Jezreel. founder of the Jezreelites. will
obtain following in England.
The real name of u. j. j." as he was
called by his disciples. was James
White. He served some years as a pri-
vate soldier in the British army before
the idea struck him that he could ac-
quire much more glory and have a far
easier time of it by starting d new
religion. After he had obtained his
discharge papers he turned up one day
with a document which he called the
Flying ROLL because, @he declared. it
had flown to him from heaven.
1t contained lot of gibberish to the
effect that u. j. j. was the one and
Israel and anybody who wanted to
stand any show of being numbered
among the $4,000 elect, spoken of in
Revelation, who are not TO see death,
would have to tie up to James Jershom
Jezreel.
lot of people did it, and Jezreel
made the prophet business pay hand
somely. He bought some property at
Chatham on the summit of high hill
and started in to build there a rival to
the tower of Babylon. When completed
il was to house the $4,000 elect. AS
designed by Jezreel ii would never have
contained more than a fraction OF that
number, but, of course, the greater the
claims he made on the credulity of his
followers the more profoundly did they
believe in him.
Before he finished the sixth story he
died. Inasmuch as he had proclaimed
that by means of the flying rolf he
had been rendered deathproof, his de-
cease staggered the faith of many of
his followers in that precious docu-
ment. Then his widow stepped into
the breach. She explained that u. j.
j." had made little mistake. 1t was
she, as Queen Esther, who had received
a commission from on high to save the
remnant of mankind from destruction.
She ran the diminished band of Jez-
reelites for time. but she did not
make any attempt to finish the tower
of JcZreel. Then she, too, gave the
lie to her own pretensions by dying.
Her father, Robert Rogers, next
tackled the job. But with the Jez-
reelites reduced to less than thirty in
~, 1l1e,- tsra
in it to provide him with living, and
he has had to toll for his daily bread
just like ordinary mortals.
Some years ago Michael Keyfor Mills
came over from America, where he had
established a band of Jezreelites, and
intimated that he was the right man
to boss the job at headquarters But
Rogers refused to abdicate in his fa-
vor, and the small remnant of the
faithful left at Chatham jeered at him.
Mills returned to America and devoted
himself to making money. Cash counts
in fanaticism, as in other things. The
lack of it compelled the Jezreelites to
part with their tower The new own
ers demolished a good deal of it and
tried to convert it into factory, but
couldn't make it work
That was Prince Michael's oppor-
tunity. He he's bought what is left of
the tower of Jezree.- He has dubbed
the hill on which it stands Mount Zion.
And he declares that it is the only
spot on earth where there is a
chance of escaping the fire and brim-
stone and other dreadful things that
are soon to fill this world
They rejected me when 1 came to
England before" he told me. "and you
see the result" he added with a sweep
ing gesture of his stick, indicating the
half demolished structure. They have
fallen from the faith, and they have
been punished. But /, Prince Michael.
foretold by the prophet Daniel, have
returned to them. The day of their
salvation is at hand. They shall be
delivered. have come to gather unto
me those whose names are written in
the book"
The new prophet claims immortality.