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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

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abond in the Tactics Prophertex"

with her written the

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papers

sfre valeniated to take the taste out of

breakfast episcopal muninde and the layman's, LIH.

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

herents Times. of h

Jenzarz remained L Man chester Street. She had taken The Best of these, at Exeter

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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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the

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of Jamaica

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

418

ant

vated.

at

bully Those the

Joanna.

about house mockery.

16

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

£

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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