Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-12-29

MOST T6IudikooA -
ligious leaders In the
world. The colonists are called rne
Saints. or the Holy Ghost and Us.
The leader is called Elijah the Sec
ond. To his followers he is the direct
representative OF God on earth; 10
his detractors he is a hypnotist; 70
the casually interested. a fanatic
Always more or less in the WORLDS
eye through the adventures ana mis-
adventures of its energetic leader ana
his disciples, who rove the seas ana
carry the word OF God to all coun-
tries of the EARTH" the Holy Ghosters
seem to have come to the zenith OF
their notoriety.
The yacht Coronet. one OF Beet OF
several craft belonging to the colony.
arrived at Portland recently. battered
and sea-fouled, her topmasts gone,
her sails torn to ribbons, and her
worm-eaten hull riddled with the bor-
ings of the dread teredo worm OF the
tropics, leaking 1000 strokes an hour
On board were Sanford. his family.
and fifty other members Of the Holy
Ghost sect, most OF them living skei-
etons from the ravages OF scurvy and
weakened to the point Of exhaustion
from many days work at the pumps
Soon after their arrival three men
were sent to the hospital by port Of
fcials. Sanford himself was arrest
ed on a civil suit brought by woman.
who claimed that she had been illegal
ly detained two years previously when
she wanted to leave the Holy Ghost
barkentine Kingdom. and after the
Holy Ghost leader had given slO.oVO
bail on this charge he was soon AFTER
arrested again by the Federal author
tiles. charged with being responsible
for the death of one of his flock VINO
had been buried at sea, and Tor the
illness OF the others, both charges be-
ing based on the fact that he had kept
them at sea In boat improperly pro
visioned when he might have made
port.
II was fifteen years ago. in one OF
the quaintest and quietest Quaker
vi NA0AnCs AOA t-@C AH~@e~0
itants of Durham. outside OF Shiloh.
are largely Quakers. that Rev. Frank
w. Sanford and his Saints OF the
Holy Ghost and Us" crusade estab-
lished the headquarters of their re-
markable creed and started the cree
ton of their Temple
When the first spadeful of earth was
turned Sandford's sole capital and
equipment was three cents. a wheel
barrow, and a shovel John Henry
Douglass, whose name is now immor-
talIzed amongst Shiiohites. gave the
land of his home farm for the site.
Other farmers became converted by
the young leader. then only eleven
years out OF college They gave their
time. their labor and their land. and,
finally, themselves to the move
ment," as the Shilohites speak OF their
work.
Slowly a great white Temple. the
wings serving the purpose OF a dor.
mitory, was erected. four-story brick
hospital was added. and several cot
tages sprang up
Sandford's original three cents. in
vested in the bank OF Cod as the
Holy Ghosters would say. bore heavy
interest. and now an outlay OF $500.
600 or more is represented in the
buildings on the hill top
The way In which money has al
times poured into the Golfers OF the
Shilohites has astounded the curious
outside world Sandford's method OF
securing funds is to pray He declares
that Coo has never yet failed hin
with money when 1t was needed
THE Saints OF Shiloh. say that God
himself ordered the erection OF this
Temple and selected its site: that he
furnished the money with which tC
build; that each successive stage Of
construction has bean marked by Z
miracle in order that II might b
shown that God was directing: that Il
to say, when 1t seemed. time aftel
time, that money and material wer,
nowhere to be had, when II appeared
that the work had stopped for good
supplies we're promptly furnished
through supernatural agencies
The Saints also assert that ShiIoi
has been commended from on high IL
many other ways. They claim tina
one person. Mrs. Olive Mills. died IL
the Temple and was afterward raise,
from the dead through the agency o
Chief Evangelist SANFORD; that nun
dreds of persons have been healed II
Shiloh's hospital Bethesda" OF al
manner OF bodily infirmities tina
demons have been cast out by tn,
score; that. in short. every miracb
recorded IN the New Testament ha
been repeated and wrought there as
sign that God approves this secon,
evangelization of the world
And as further proof of the sincerit
of the faith all the good works o
Shiloh are done without money an,