MORE FANATICISM IN VICTORIA,

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 249, 7 November 1872, Page 5

MORE FANATICISM IN VICTORIA,

The Australasian sayi : — " If ft were not for our own Nunawading revelations of a year or two ago, it wquld appear strange to reflect that in any part of a community like Victoria there could be a sept like the ' New Lights' of Stawell and Moyston. These •people, it seems, live in the liveliest expectation of a * White Anjfel 1 coming down from heayen to taken them up with him to that happy logalifcy. There was an account so.cc months ago of a lot of these much-believing persons sitting on the top of a hill all night waiting for 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 deputy prophet, named Irving, recently assured them that the "White Angel" was coming in reality this time. They therefore assembled add waited his arrival, pass-ing-the interval in certain howlings of a hysterical character. Bat the angel again deceived them. One of the' band, a farmer named Wiley, wag \iM by Stephens tbatbe

ought to endeavour to acquire a better and more godly frame of mind. Wiley, however, thooght he ipould sea. a. short cut out of his spiritual troubles by cutting his throat.- "Be did not thoroughly manage this, and is now an inmate of the district lunatis asylum. •It is painful to learn that tbe unbelieving people : , of Moystpu pay so little regard to liberty of' conscience, ;:nd to", tne high vocatiou of the founder of a new faith, as to have meditated tar-ing and- feathering him if they could have caught him.