A MORMON PROPHET.
“An Auckland Mormon has been placed,” says the “ New Zealand Herald” “in a somewhat similar fix to that in which Dr Camming once fell, when he predicted the end of the world in 1866, and at the same time took a 21 years lease of his London residence. The prophet is enthusiastia on the dogma that the world is to be wound up in 1890. He has also a property in the market for sale. A timber merchant of a theological turn of mind in the city, oifered to buy the property at a price equivalent to ten years’ purchase. The Mormon asked the would-be purchaser ‘if he was a fool ?’ The latter retorted, ‘No but he hoped he was not a rogue,’ and if the vendor knew that the world was coming to an end in 1890, the price was a fair one. It is needless to say that the sale has not been effected, and that the Mormon prefers possession of the property to having the courage of his opinions.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2505, 31 March 1881, Page 4
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175A MORMON PROPHET. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2505, 31 March 1881, Page 4
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