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ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES
JOANNA'S BOX
Society
. and the 24 reluctant bishops
By Michael Gannon
SIGNIFICANT duentu buurtbanded. The bishops the Lord Chancellor in view of change Jus vome
cond
abond in the Tactics Prophertex"
with her written the
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them 1+1 Panacea utherstell of her missio
Ten They Bedford.
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papers
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arranges
writings
Fri
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the trite=ptsr」 }n Pun Doctor Reeve Wils The imprudent enough To support
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persons
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This Love nothing in UnresponUAE
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Jenzarz remained L Man chester Street. She had taken The Best of these, at Exeter
bod 1 ter
Fri March. with the m
1803
with followed by WTIN
symptoms unconnected! childbearing. seennel at Necklöger House, Ber-
On October 19. 1864 stod sev
Two yeNES crowds gathered outside tho after Joanna arrived to reside house and
disperso rowdily Pikington.
when
no announcement of Vio birth was forthecining.
A month later Joanna Reeve tint she was dying. was utterly dejected and loubis whether pressed
been mussion had not
She Justen activity
died of "brain the in London. A chapel was bullt fever on December 27 and us House and the Landon Press produced Bishops open Joanne South near Neckinger cott's Box." they proclaimed Joantin lived for a while at the special editions in type to large to be ig- nored.
"Engra
Perplexities
Troubles and
it met, that mattervals will increase examined the life, character and tastis the Bishops open writings of Joanna and solemnly
of monteed that she Joanna Southcott's Bux
Bermondsey centre of Southeottian
Sealed Writings." "London gd
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Abbey Street.
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PATHETIC
Such annanewrants Press usually foreboded trumble.
At ils time she was plently
chocexaty
faithful Maling What to ch WILL น Intext communication from Bext who were to be saved ford?
offers
lift the bet
with
TART REPLIES
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ant
vated.
at
bully Those the
Joanna.
about house mockery.
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told She
ex- her
**
Ure crowd yelled their
The Southeottians were
s-
Farmer's daughter and tanatic, o- апла South- cott at one time had ad- 14.000
heronti.
from this Jund They set great declared to be Joanna's and per- store by this Interpretation of sunded one bishop only-Dr her prophecy but it is the un- Aine of Grantham to published "sculed writings" of present at its opening in Church they hold to contain nothing more helpful buse, Westminster. It proved
shoukl
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Joserate that greatest regard.
These are the contents of the than a pair of horse pistols, box which she directed
late 18th-century novel. and A be opened by 24 bishops in time few trinkets. of national perit. They are, say the Southcottans, the testoient of God as revealed to Joanna.... His punaces for the ills of the British. His chosen people: the means of salvation for immortal map.
PROSPEROUS
The Panneca Society there- upon denied that Mr Price's was the real box and insisted on ita demand that the full set of 24 bishops should assemble to open The one In its custody.
It
But, as mentioned before, the society has how altered its methods.
I no longer appeals 1 all seems rather blasphe directly to the episcopate.
It is mous, and yut there is a pathetle direct sincerity about the present-day pending less on propaganda,
is my belief that it has less to Southcottians, even though they maintain a wholly unreasonable spend and that Southcottiem 19
style. to air of secrecy about Joanna's of 11s box.
mayed. but only monnually. With magnificent aploint they pointed out at the child of the Woman of the Book of Revela
ion had been snatched up heaven at the moment
and
an
on
Joanne's
Bermondsey chape! became a leather warehouse and The Panaves Society has spent For the society msistext millennium were provided, for a
a certificate birth to escape Satan's clutches. fec, with FOT. YOPYLO Inste
name the is now demolished Her in lengthy and
They declared that Joanna to thousands of pounds by mutlukdual gned and scaledí
ས་་་
had died."
but Press advertising its demands
this jesporasie-zives
is scarcely remembered in appearances The business proceeded pros
should open centre of her activity 150 years hushops, demanding that 24
piously until it was discovers that they expected the return of that the bishops
Panacea The the box, and will wgether
the body and to this them should get
was her soul to
not you
Society. say ago. that Mury Bateman, who
'The where it is located today.
which
pays rates on 23 proper- banged for murder
mul endeavoured to maintain is at York it
Inquirer is
printing politely told that it ties including 10019. wats atong those cerlit warmth with hot-water bottles.
But
member house) in Bedford, makes prac- the is in the custody of a decay set in fourth day Dr Fleece performed
the movement, but the Leally no impact on that town Jounna
little no society will not name the cus- and, one supposes, which
very Neves theless,
showed Most of the bishops eventually
todian. solved the problem by boring tinued to attract followers, and evidence of pregnancy.
A photograph purport- impression outride of it. In be Nevertheless, Southcottians to
of the box adorns But for newspaper articles I it, or sending tart replies. The bishops complained that their
Kavo Iny believe that Joanna
some of its literature, however. result has fewn that the soctely sheep were being led stray.
think the nation in spite of the In 1927, that remarkable man society's efforts would long ago has abandoned the direct
birth to the new Messiah who ap- is reckoned that she took about
to ceased psychical adherents.
about less 14,000
The It advertising.
wiw snatched up to heaven and
research, Harry have proach.
Joanna Southcott, expansive and frequent and com- Prince
Regent, who was game is yet to come to rule the world Price, produced a box which he Anel chiefly to magazines, now for anything. visited Joanna, invites attention to
Caf and, It is saidf. afterwards con-
The
for Deliverance from Satanic tributed to her cause. Evil
in
Angelie Bor. No Anci mention of The Box. But the box is still firmly in mind: it crops up the literature that goes out to those curious enough to write for it and the society is convinced that by this pubile opinion will, Inter,
1957) -
an mulopay
1E
fit
As early as 1802 Joanna had designated herself "the Bride of Eleven years later, the lamb." when she was 64, she announced that she was about to give birüli
Shilohi
Messiah. the new Clearly she was identifying her- Clothed self with the Waman
Book of with the Sun of the Revelation.
means to
to
sooner conditioned become
the re- trom
demand action
calcitrant episcopate.
It is difcult to treat South-
Ing
of
THE PRINCE TO SELL
This proclamation of the Im-TN
coldsm objectively. For my part, mine.ce of a second immaculate
I aun astonished that its follow conception divertext London CTB, who seem to be good and the
year
Joannu's
at
mews
carc
HIS WHITE ELEPHANT
From SAM WHITE
with melt enforced electricity "It will be good to have
home of our own again," he The hessian-covered walls dir- explains. "But not the chateau play a few yellowing, unframed we have lost our taste for family capshots, two battered chateaux." banjos relies of the Prince's What happened to the £25,000 gay youth as a Tsarist officer: a his wife won in 18947 That, no small, tinsel-framed photo of the explains, was invested in а
touched. They receive an annual The furniture is old and non- income from it now of
under the muts on the
£1,000 a year. Both the Princo descript and sitting-room floor
thread and oto
his wife
have become deeply religious with the years. Prince Youssoupoft has twice
Into this setting strkies the They have become converts to been involved in lawsuits. Ani Prince, marvellously erect, hand-faithhealing, their major interest twice he has won handsomely, some, dressed like an English
in life is to find patients for a The first time was in 1934. A country gentleman, with British court awarded his wife checks rosy as though he had faith healer. £25,000 damages against Metro just come from an early morning
galop.
a corner,
Paris. El three-room mews culs, and there is in nothing "smart" about before Waterloo.
flat gentle people, can accept its ugly for the lying-in to
followers moved her Parislan
house in found Prince Felix Yous perversion of Christian teaching; its predestined division of man- Manchester Street, Marylebone. soupoff. He is 68 now; kind between
and To satisfy the incredulous public the they sought medical proof that a young officer in Tsarist Tsar and the Tsarina stands in trust and the capital carmot be damned. The history movement is perhaps, one of tho she was indeed with child, and Russia he took part in the bom to Dr Richard Recce, a distin- plot that disposed of that strangest stories of social
guished medical man of the time, sinister monk, Rasputin. haviour.
Joanna put the blunt question, Joanna Southcott's picture, in "Would you suppose I was the National Portralt Gallery, the family way?" shows her
have
2 been pleasant-faced, buxom country- woman, it does not suggest the
to
immortals
of
fanaticul religous reformer.
She was a farmer's daughter,
我
£200 CRADLE
in
domestic declared her alleged pregnancy
bare.
Reece to his eventual regret Goldwyn-Mayer for libels in the
They see few people, and only and five other doctors sup-alm, Rasputin, The Mod Monk.” We talk first about his newly go out occasionally to a small born at Gettisham, Devon, in posed that she was. Three others
wớn chateau. He explains that Russian restaurant. They are 1740, who became
The good occasion wan. It appears to be something of a deeply touched by the interest servant to a family in Exeter. to be so much tommyrok But recently, in Paris. A court ruled white elephant, First, the Freeth the Duke of Windsor displays in
From being o pirited and the pros silenced the contrde by
that the
the Chateau de Kerialet in Government may appeal against them when he is in Paris. cheerful person she turned, in confidently announcing the date
Prince's the verdict, thereby prolonging Recently the Duche of middle age, to melancholy, and of the birth-October 19, 1814, Brittany, which
has already Windsor wrote Inviting them to great-grandmother, Countess de litigation which believing herself divinely in and ordering a cradle belting Chauver, had left to the nation, insted six years. Then, even if la lunch at their country home spired began the first scribbling the Prince of Peace, at a cost of should revert to the Youssoupeft Einally becomes his dates wil of her rumbling, allegorical and £200, from Seddons of Alders family because the conditions of be heavy denth-dulica bo pay near Parls. "What gendus, what
tenacity!!
said the to many incomprehensible
the will had not been carriod an accumulation of legal speaking of the Duchess, "It is phecies.
The Archbishop of Cantor=[pati A main theme she forefold bury was summoned through the The chateau and its many What he aims to do, he tells wrong to judge poople," he added. "Login, Trotsky, Stalin the second coming of the Lord now famillar technique of news treasures are valued at £400,000. me, is to sell the chatmu to a and warned all to prepare for paper advertisements, to provide Tveited the Britice to find out French charitable dostibution they all had their role to They were all puppels of it. On the side, shelforecast a sulle at Lambeth Palace for how he had pared bolwom there and to live with his 50-year-old
dostlay (reasonably safely) flooding and the accouchement Whan" his two legal actions and what plans wife in the caretaker lodeven Hasputin?" I other minor estamities. Even Grace declined, the faithful de- he had for the future, bir alabar thosaght her, rather manded that Joanna should be
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