The Religious Life of LondonRitchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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The Religious Life of London
Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
London (England) -- Religion; Religious thought -- England -- London
The main instrument in the above precious compilation is Whatmore, one of
Joanna Southcott’s chosen apostles. The paper referred to is issued from
No. 9, Elder Walk, Essex Road, Islington, London, of Britannia Zion. It
states, as far as I can gather, that in August last year something of
importance was to take place. “A month since and the gauntlet has been
successfully run; therefore, Whatmore, now has Thy lowly instrument
Watmore Whatmore, John, to submit of and by Thy worthiness, O Lord God.
Oh, shall I submit a Song of Solomon, or a Lamentation of Thy Prophet
Jeremiah, or a sermon of Thy immortalizing mount, unto Thy flock, O, O,
O! Submit, love,” &c., &c. I gather that the mystery of God is to be
finished speedily by unveiling His Bible word, and His codicil thereto by
His spouse, “the wonderful Queen of prophets, Joanna Southcott, that thus
sons and daughters by her womanhood may greatly replenish the earth, and
that the poor now suffering from the murdering love of money in
consequence of unjust stewardship may fare better in time to come.” This
seems to be the only idea I can extract from the Southcottians. All
mammon laws are to be abolished, money currency is to be destroyed, there
is to be no more selling, martyring, and bartering of humanity and their
requirements, “thus saith the Lord Jehovah, by J. Watmore Whatmore, and
J. G. Grant, of Zion.”
As these prophets speak of the spouse of God, Eve the second, called
Joanna Southcott, Queen of the prophets, who in 1802 opened her
commission, and declared herself to be the woman spoken of in
Revelation—“the Bride, the Lamb’s wife, and clothed with the sun”—let me
briefly tell her story:—
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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