A NEW PROPHET.

Kumara Times, Issue 913, 3 September 1879, Page 4

A NEW PROPHET.

A t man representing himself to be the Prophet Elijah, is creating quite & furore in and about the ancient city of Chichester. Hearing the fame of this remarkable individual, I (correspondent of Telegraph) drove over from Portsmouth last week to have an interview with him. Passing through North street I observed a tall handsome man, dressed in a picturesque garb of sheepskin, with a cap of the same material, and high cowhide boots, standing in the doorway of the George and Dargon Inn. I went inside and commenced to speak to him, but he retired upstairs. After some difficulty he was persuaded to come down into the best room in the house, where he received me. His appearance is very striking, having very good clean cut features of Asiatic type, being tall in stature, and haying an ever ready smile, and his dark whiskers being set off to perfection by the light dress and cap He carries a staff and small hoin, which he blows through the streets and announces his meetings,°which are held in the Peoples' Park, and are very largely attended. He told me that he had been a landscape painter, and that eight months ago hs had seen several visions, in which he was told to call himnelf Elijah at alii meetings ; and that he was the real prophet as foretold and promised in Malachi iv., verse 5. This verse \fi the whole foundation of his doctrine" -whieh is to preach Anglo-Israeliam to the English people, who, he states, are the lost ten tribes of Israel; and if they do not listen to him and return tc Jerusalem, a great famine is prophesied. It is almost unnecessary to say that at some of his meetings he has to encounter great opposition ; sometimes he has been stoned ; and at others made quite a hero £*• , EB , wa l lately in the south east of England. He now expresses his determination to go all over London.