WEIRD "RELIGIONS."

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17429, 13 April 1922, Page 2

WEIRD "RELIGIONS."

We are told that Mormon propaganda is again rife in England. Mormonism is a permcious '■religion" manufactured in the United States. of America, Wd the "Elders" axe here, on their mission (say? a writer in ; the '3>aily Graphic''), because England has What a." Erroneously styled "sui-plus" | women.' i'/'is to be hoped that younger and ■uninformed women will withstand their wiles. The Millennial Dawn r ites are.: a later bodyi and but a few bf;'themij Ibave reached England so far; l Their Big Medicine-Man.ia oner Pastor BvtaseiL iand it is very diffioult to. uhderstana what thejfe prqfess. EzekieT is their text-book, and Pastor Russell has taught them, how to interpret all; the dreams of that prophet, and the hidden: meaning of the White Horse.; tropa-. ganda by the motion pictures is; a feature of the Russeilitee, and some of .tlhe films are weirdi . Noah is shown busy j building his ark, while a ballet, corps j of young ladies < endeavour •* to distract the patriarch by The deluge I begins, assisted by' a' 40 gramophone in one of the stage boxes, which crashes out —of all thingay-'.'The Last Rose of Summer"! Tlhe offering up of Isaac, also pictured, is spoiled; by the fact that the angel who appears to Abraham has clearly had hia hair cut in Boston, v JSJassaw3usett3which has a -styloof. its oirn—aiid that .■ the lamb wttiidn sabstitutes property one. :; Heaven is depicted? as in. • wonderfully -built city, with streets 6? enorinous breadth, full, of motorcars, and not;-a comhioh foot-passenger •' to be seen. ■ The at*;another body which has branches in the United Kingdom, or, at least, exponents of a similar belief. Speaking with tongues and, physical, contortions; are the main things in the Holy RoEer service, and fits of all-kinds are looked upon reverently as spiritual manifestations. A man 1 will rise in the congre--gation • and vibrate .6&i minutes. ' All "6veV : the }'.'■ fTooiS the J disciples-rook,.Tsway} arid'vtumblieV; It is £iie of ijrhe weirdest and most foot "ish demonstrations that ever masqueraded'under the cloak of religion.