The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-10
ORDERED
FOR LOVE CULT
Death Of Amy Tanner Brings
About Investigation Ofa
Religious Sect.
SPIRIT MARRIAGES A PART

CANTON, Ohio, April lOA grand
jury investigation is being made here
OF the love cult at Alliance Ohio,
which was exposed with all Its unique
details when Miss Amy Tanner, a
member Of the cult Of the Kingdom
o. God died mysteriously on March
"a.
Apostle Percy A George, head Of
the cult, who has been pending few
days In jail awaiting the Investigation
OF the medical authorities into the
causes Of the girls death has revealed
10 the authorities the strange remedy
for the alienation Of depressed spirits
OF women members aud the unique
ideas " the cult, which include the
theory that virtue ana vice are con
trary to the principles ot real life.
When Miss Tanner died at the
brotherhood Home of the cult near
Alliance, the police arrested Apostle
George and ten other members who
were living at the Industrial center
established by the colony Five OF
those arrested were women The mem
bers were later released but the
apostle" was held In lail until the
girls remains were examined for poi
son
They Roll on the Floor
George came to Alliance about Il
year ago, and the cult Was founded
last fall A large luxurious house
was the meeting place Amy Tanner
Joined the love cult during the winter
According to the nlo,tle' she was
run down spiritually She told me
-he had trouble at home" said George
I'VE have established this home to
huild up Christian life no she came
10 MS to be built up spiritually Do
According 10 the father NJ the Tan
ner girl her parents believed she had
x, ne TO a boarding house and the girls
there were her friends
Brother Phlpps who was one of
the cult members has testified that
hc went TO the Kingdom 10 do lit
tie literary work he admitted the
inmates kissed each other "ut the call
NJ the spirit" but said the sect does
not practice immora ifr That the 10
cal seCt is similar I'm rites TO the Holy
Roller cult was developed by Phlpps'
testimony Men and women get down
ON the floor and turn over once or
twice to use his phrase. when the
| spirit X upon them N the clothing
NJ the women becomes disarmugrd
during this ceremony 10 was uulntpu.
tional, and IL done boy God he said
Apostle George hus made sworn
statement to the authorities In which
he has outlined SOM Of his unique
beliefs He declares that the world is
neither round nor fMt. that virtue. as
well as vice, is contrary TO the prin
ciples OF real life and that thought,
emanate from spiritual self located
In the stomach
The Only Perfect Man
Another member " the cult ha,
made statement 10 the police, II
which the Apostle IL thus described
He was recognized as the flns auth
GRITTY and the only perfect man Hi,
wife WAS to become the mother Of al
living He was commonly called pa
and his wife ma They together wer,
to guide the first perfect home auC
were 10 be the chief rulers during tn,
millennium"
That a spirit marriage" had beef
arranged between young woman II
Rerlin Heights, Ohio, and W. r
Phipps, the John the Baptist OF tn,
cult was the assertion Of the persoI
making this statement. This younI
woman was referred 10 as the specla
spirit daughter " the apostle" anC
his spouse She IL said 10 he an at
tractive and deeply religious yUunI
woman While she was supposed I,
place explicit confidence IN Georg,
and to obey hls every command, sh,
WAS, however hard 10 manage an,
would not come tp the cult headuuar
ters She did NOT Ike Phipps, II wa,
stated and continued to refuse IN,
proposition ~ marriage.
The purpose NJ the brotherhood
continues the statement, was to hell
the members I'm the spiritual develop
} ment so that they might be NJ 10 h,
Georges associated when the worll
fnllS At his feet He expected thi
soon
George llrs around. often hsvlnl
croanlng spells, which he calls bur
dens.' and IN which he claims 10 h
suffering death and hell 40 that MI
enemies may be- finally conquered
When under these burdens he Oftel
gets his revelations
He often said he could hear TN
laughter of his spirit In his stOmacl
as distinctly Ms ne could hear m
laughter m person He explained
however that n was with his spirit
ual stomach md not his matpria
stomach that hp thought. FROM thl
point the words NJ the spirit went T.
his head and ont NJ his mouth
George is immune from disease I'm,
death A hulloi hole would have n
effect upon him The pain that h
/ docs suffer NJ times is an attack q
tho lmpcrfrrtly ,uhdued devil whlc
/ he must conquer
A man alvO,s tell his wife h
doesn't care what the nelghhors say
hut he does