The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-19
Te find our E Oh. Perhaps We will

join the Holy Rollers O.
tt Q Northwest.
"In a vision I havs seen the Holy
Rollers with outstretohed han Is sp-
pealiug to tho East for help. They
wait for us and we come, but for q
time We will tarry in the mountain Of
Colorado. God Almighty, who ut timey
enters into me and speaks from my
lips, hss said that we must not sit In
Oklahoma. do not know where we
shall finally sit, but I feel that 1t will
be 1T some point whore We can SET
the rolling billows Of the Pacific.
THAT will be soon, and from that
moment peace will begin to settle
upon the troubled heart. All the
world is looking toward me. When !
establish the haven Of rest, the people
who have cast the scales of sin from
their eyes will come to me from the
uttermost parts OF the earth. I an
the only way to the life everlasting,
and there can be no salvation except
through ne.
when we have reached the point
whore the haven of rest Is to be es
tablished the sun will cease to shine.
and there will be an eternal pale pur
pie twilight. There will be no bgh
save that of the Holy Spirit, whicl
will be bright enough and moro beau
tiful than the solar rays. 1t will be
the light OF asterium which shall bt
harmless to those who are pure II
spirit, but annihilating to them who
are sinful or uncleau."
Among the GOLDEN Rulers are per
sons of education, even Of exceeding
GU ltivation aud refinement, while
Others arc illiterato. One woman,
who has been renamed by the Colder
Rulers Martha is the leader among
the women, dominating them by sheer
force Of native intelligence and abil
tY, although she cannot read OF
write. She is an Indian half breec
Of the Ohsrokee tribe. Mary, half
mad woman of seventy, says that she
was dying Of tuberculosis, but John
Sharp, or Adam, had cast out the
devil from her body and cured her. A
cooper, q madcap, John Brett b
name, said he had once lived at Fort
Smith, where hs was . practicine
physician, but that there was no neeo
# medicine and surgery where Adam
Is.
A young man followed the Colder
Rulers from Austin, Texas, and oharg.
ed them with having kidnapped hi'
beautiful young sister. The leader
4as arrested for disturbing the peace.
Again Mr.. and Mrs. Sharp, Msste,
Sharp and John Aiken, whom the
Golden Rulers call the savior OF the
eorld, were arrested for marching
asked through the principal streets
II Oklahoma. Adam paid large fnt
md said it was small price to pa.
or the propaganda Of the one religion
# the world, one of whose tenets Ii
he nudeness of bis followers.
la the new Ellen Of the West" hi
aid, I'VE shall 60 naked and no,
shamed."
ELL times, it is predicted, await
jhe advent of the Golden Rulers or
he PAc fio Coast.
A rival Adam has already appeared
and been upkindly treated at Bath
drum, Idaho. John B. Mattley, found
Or of the Sanctified Church Of Adam
and Eve, and who is known as the
Nude E 'angelist, appeared in state
of nature on the streets Of Rathdrum,
PROC aiming bis belief that G ID never
intended that men and women SHOULD
wear clothirg. When he attempted
to preach on the streets with no pro
lection but the mantle OF night po
licemtn interrupted his discourse. d
was sent to the town jail, charged
with insanity, and the Commission TO,
tho Insane Is investigating his condi
tion.