MORE FANATICISM IN VICTORIA.

Evening Star, Issue 3024, 29 October 1872, Page 3

MORE FANATICISM IN VICTORIA.

The AvstralanUm says “ Ifßb were not for our own Nuna wading revelations of a year or two ago, it would appear strange to reflect that in any part of a community like Victoria there could be a sect like the ‘ iNew Lights’ of Stawell and ;doy ston. These people, it seems, live in the liveliest expectation of a ‘ White Ang'.l’ coming down from heaven to taken them up with him to that happy locality. There was an account 50. 1,0 months ago uf_ a lot of these much-believing persona sitting on the top of a hill all night waiting lor the angel to come and fetch them. However, he did not come, and it is painful to read that

they have lately met with another disappointment. Their prophet, one Stephens, who seems to have a peculiar control over the minds of these ignorant fanatics, and a sort of <lep\ity prophet, named Tvving, recently assured them that the “White Angel” was coming in reality this time. They therefore assembled and waited his arrival, passing the interval in certain bowlings of a hysterical character. But the angel again deceived them. One of the band, a farmer named Wiley, was tdd hy Stephens that he ought to endeavour to acquire a better and more godly frame of mind. Wiley, however, thought he could see a short cut out of his spiritual troubles by cutting his throat. He did not thoroughly manage this, and is now an inmate of the district lunatic asylum. It is painful to learn that the unbelieving people of Moyatou pay so little regard to liberty of conscience, and to tne high vocation of the founder of a new faith, as to have meditated tarring and feathering him if they could have caught him.