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FORMER "MESSIAHS" OF ENGLAND
PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS DELUSIONS
MEN AND WOMEN WHO THOUGHT THEMSELVES DIVINE
hospitals, as well as burial of Court mourning and the period re- O
The America.
(By Dean Matthews)
{the_Writer's "Name and Addressținitial funds of the organisation King. He succeeds at the (not necessarły for insertion, but were procured by levying fmeð for)ment of his father's death. - as a guarwates of good' faith, swearing or profanity, of the The length of time which
porters.
jelapses nowadays between the The original "purpose of the death of a Sovereign and his suc- fraternity was the transportation.{cessor's coronation is governed of plague victims to and from purely by such considerations as NE of the most fascinating! The ecstatic women who accom byways of historical study panied him, shouted "Holy, Holy, labandowed corpses. They have quired to make all the arrange is that of the queer little sects, Holy" before him as he rode on a
often, in history, incurred the en-iments for a great pageant of and the pretended, prophets who horse into the city. mity of tyrants and despots, but state.
The story have provided them, which have of his trial for "blasphemy" be The Future Conquest they have flourished, and survive In the Middle Ages the Corun been so numerous in England and fore
to the present day. They stillation was more important."
Parliament and of his Of Everest
wear the hood and shoulder pad first step. of the heir of an
savage punishment is a tragic one. En- It is a sad and rather disturb-The intolerance and cruelty of some of the ancient porters, but now glish King was to secure the Roying sphere of research, because it of the Puritan members make us Everest has triumphed once their membership is recruited al Hoard in Norman times kept brings us into contact with men wonder whether they more over the intrepid men from
the highest at Winchester. The next was to and women who were themselves suffering from religious delusions. who have sought to scale the Italian nobility, including the get hold of the Archbishops to se- the victims of the most fantastic not less pernicious than Nayler's. mountain's ultimate heights. King and Crown Prince of Italy-cure the Church's blessing on his delusions, and even more because Yet even as Mr. Hugh Ruttledge They are the only society in Italy accession.
The culprit was reasonable, it illustrates the way in which the courteous and gentle. and his companions admit de permitted. to appear masked in These two precautions provided lives of honest, and
No doubt not always Mr. Matthews is right in thinking feat and turn for the descent public.
him with both the financial and stupid, people may be spoiled and that he was largely the victim of they look forward to some The House Built Under the moral means of discouraging wasted by falling under the spell the enthusiasm of his followers, future effort that may be help-
of what our forefathers would have who suggested Ideas to bim which bluntly called "false, prophets.” his mind was not strong enough
Mr. Ronald, Matthews, who, so to repudiate. When he was
ed by their labours. In a break
An Umbrella
rivals.
finished THE
house 3-room
HERALDIC COINCIDENCE
at 11.166 Sunset
Tocated
were
not
far as I now, is no relation of leased from prison, a broken man,
in the storms of the monsoon they have had a vision of con- Iditions on the west side of the Boulevard, Westwood Hills, Los Mr. Archibald Russell, Lancastine, has written a book "English he renounced his delusion, and be North CoL Though ascent by Angeles, was under an umbrella ter Herald, who read the Corona-Messiahs which anyone would came once more a that route has hitherto been re-all the time it was under construction Proclamation last month at find amusing reading, and which Quaker. He is a striking example very worthy garded as impracticable they tion. The purposes of this huge Charing Cross, did so at the foot must be of quite exceptional in-of the danger to a religious teacher express their belief after this umbrella, 100 x 104 feet in size, of the statue of Charles L, a spot terest to those who care for the of listening to the voices of adula- reconnaissance that in certain was to accelerate building opera-which had for him both genealo-religious history of this country. tion conditions climbing the west tions through the rainy season.gical and chronological associs- To me it seems specially valuable side would be safer and more since the contract insured com-tions.
Joanna Southcott direct. Their discovery may belpletion of the house in 45 days.
because it is written by a of value for a future occasion-instead of the usual 120. During his veins. His mother's grand-ledge
The blood of Charles I. runs in who has evidently a good knowgirl of Exeter, who turned pro- Joanna Southcott, the servant By it men will be tempted to try the first two weeks of February, mother was, before her marriage content to dismiss the unfortunate and there are people to-day who of psychology and is not phetess, still has her followers, again. This year, as Mr. Eut-more than 6 inches of rain fell into Sir Peregrine Maitland, tledge's message said, further Los Angeles, and building opera commanded the Greys at Water-"madmen"
who persons of whom he writes 35 agitate for the opening of ber effort is useless, but the waytions were at a standstill on every loo, Lady Sarah Lennox, daughter makes us sympathise with them done only by 24 bishops. She or Impostora." He Imysterious box which Can be has possibly been found to house except The Umbrella of the 4th Duke of Richmond, who and even in some cases love them seems to have been a simple and
future conquest.
House.*
COOK-BOY TURNS THIEF
EUROPEAN LADY VICTIMISED
Restoration.
a self-
Novices Non-Golfer: "Apparently cooling golf ball is a crying need.”
Golfer: "Why?"
B
bas
pathos and The last of the
Faith that the highest moun-
gave the famous Waterloo Ball
Astonishing Set tain of the world will yet be
The first Duke of Richmond)
harmless creature, who suffered at climbed will not die. The pre-
Many will be surprised to learn the end of her life from the delu- was the son of Charles II Last that at least six English "Mes- sion that she was to give birth sent expedition, unique in the
month the descendant of Charles siahs" have made sufficient stir in to the new Messiah. She had past experience of its members,
IL proclaimed the date of the the world to be of some historical capacity for turning out doggerel in the perfection of its equip
Coronation of Edward VIIL on importance
verse which must be unrivalled. ment, and in the number of its
the anniversary of Charles II's
What an astonishing set of pec- Richard Brothers, the Prince of trained porters, had been une
¡ple they are! The most attractive the Hebrews, and John Nichols fortunate beyond all its pre-
of them is the earliest in date.Tom, the "peasants' saviour,” are decessors in the matter of wea-i ther. Since the fourth camp. Shing Street, appeared as com- Mrs. J. Russell, of No. 8, Tak
Your Daily Smile! the Quaker, James Nayler. In less attractive figures, though
the time of the Commonwealth their story 24,000 feet up, was reached, the plainant at the Kowloon Magis-
this printer, who had turned tragedy enough. climbers had been turned back tracy on Saturday and thwarted in renewed ad-wan-yau, formerly employed by when Leang
Quaker, missionary, gathered English messiahs, J. H. Smyth- following, consisting chiefly of Pigott, died as recently as 1927, vances by cyclonic winds, heavy ter as cook-boy, was charged with his ball for a long time before start-in circumstances which plainly claims is well remembered.
"Well I've seen many a golfer an women, and marched into Bristol and the sensation caused by his snowfalls and the crashing avalanches that accompany such (a) larceny by servant o two ing to play." conditions. Reluctant to be Platinum and diamond rings, the baffled they took hazardous Property of complainant, between risks after the early break of June 20 and July 9 this year, (b) the monsoon discounted all like illegal pawning of two platinum lihood of success. As in anand diamond rings between June other connection, we may say 21 and July 3, and (c) larceny by "the men were splendid," but servant of $8 between June 1 and human power struggles in vain July 9. against the higher Himalayas Defendant pleaded guilty to all; when Nature is in turbulent the charges. mood.
The rings were
pawned at To conquer Everest is one of various times by the defendant, the very few great adventures who used the proceeds to gamble still left to man. There must at Shum Chan.
be sympathy with Mr. Rut- Asked by the Magistrate if he tledge, who has organised two could raise any money, defendant, attempts, and with the climb said he hoped to draw a "wow" ers who had hoped to make the (lottery) on July 15 but it was final assault. Yet they can feel purely a question of luck and he that, though they never reach-was not at all certain that hej ed the higher and most formid-would draw the lucky number.“ able slopes, the preliminary work done by Mr. Eric Ship-ed that it was very hard luck on The presecuting officer remark- ton's party last year has added the complainant, much to knowledge of the lower have to pay a large sum to get as she would Himalayan peaks. No effort can her own
property back out
be held to be wasted that builds)
up little by little the experience
pawn.
of
The Magistrate thought that
that will enable some future further efforts should be made »t» party to set foot on the highest ise some of the money, and re- point of all That will not bel done until the demons that manded defendant for one week guard the mountain, as
to enable him to do so. the Thibetans believe, are in more favouring mood than they have needs co-ordination been this year.
Empire Unity
To unite self-governing States in common policy, and action is, as regards constitutional ma- chinery, not an easy task Mr. MacDonald did not profess to How is the British Common- see his way to its accomplish- wealth of Nations to maintainment He asked the peoples of unity of purpose and harmony the Empire to do a great deal of action now that each of its of hard thinking on new prac six Member States has. legal tices and new forms. It must sovereignty and a completely be remarked that the period autonomous Government? The since the war, in which the Secretary for the Dominions, Dominions have, as he put it, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, did "gained their national freedom," wisely to state that problem at has also seen the building up of) the Empire Press Umon meet-much closer economic co-opera ing last month. In the circumtion. The change which was stances of the time. It is of made by the Statute of West urgent importance to every sub-minster was the legal recogni ject of the British Crown. tion of a status which had long There is significant proof to existed in fact. Before it, as hand. The visit to England of well as after it, city of Im- Mr. Pirow, the South African perial action was only possible Minister for Defence, must be by the free will of unity of interpreted as implying recogni-spirit In the economic field tion in his Dominion and forms and practices have grown none has claimed more clearly up under that impulse. The its sovereign authority that same force will operate to give the defence of the Empire the Empire political machinery.
ཟླ་ * Too Exhausting "You didn't take a holiday this year, did you?"
"No, I thought I needed a rest.”
**
*
suggested that he was imitating the entry of Christ into Jeruzalem.
synonym?"
“A synonym," said Tommy wisely, Handy Substitute".
"is a word 'you use when you can't Tommy's Sister: "Tommy, what-isspell the other "one"
*
Human Stories
Human stories, such as those which Mr. Matthews has collected, raise many questions. He gives us his own explanation of the phenoment, which is, so far 83 it goes, illuminating. He relies (Continued on Page 10)
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
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