Strange Russian Sect.

Thames Star, Volume XXXX, Issue 10500, 22 November 1902, Page 4

Strange Russian Sect.

TENETS OF THE ENOCHITES. Ai BOOM IN DEVILS. A new religious sect lias arisen in the Government of Zarizyn, and :is spreading so rapidly that the Govern-' men* hasi begun to! take energetic steps to check its (progress. The Miknveris of the! sec* «ia|ljll . itlhlemselves Enodiites, and are men of ordinary' intelligence, but through, their disdLpJlesi they dissetminatje among t)he pea-ants a terrible fear of the approia>ching end; of the; world. As signs of the speedy destruction of the world they adduce all the lat-ter-day manifestationiNsuch as .railways, telegraphs, and telepihlonies. They declare: that in every; gramophone i*it several little devils and one large devil on :the totp. : The number of devils on the eairth, they say, has increasedl enormously, and that may be seen by the way in which they go* about in. the formi of! men and wear.,glove's to cover their claws. They teaohi that the end of the world is bo'nsan*. that the stars are already beginning to fall! from] heaven, and a man may convince himself of that by spending a night in the open

The Prophet Elijah, who 1, like the Prophet Enoch, was taken up to Heaven alive-, has again appeared! om the earth, and lives in the form, of Father John of 'Kronstadt, near St. Petersburg. The agents of the Anti-Christ are scattered over the wiW.e world and imprint their seal upon, men, though not upon the body, but upon a paper which they must always carry with them, andi which.i* called their pass. ; These teachings make thei EnodMtes distasteful to the Government, and the peasants are beginning to burn, their passes. Finally, the Enochites teach that the Prophet Enoch is'already upon/ the earth, thought as yet he has not been seen by anybody. As soon as he has appeared tot his disciples the world will be destroyed. so far .as the Eboohitea are able to see, bub two years yet remain, before the destruction of the world. In order to, check the pernicious activity of the sect thie Government has 9esipatohed forty Russian travelling priests to the ; . Government of Zarizyn. ' .