Thence they issue
documents worthy of Bedlam. I have now before me their "Midnight Cry,
Behold the Bridegroom cometh." And this august warning and bruising and
inviting announcement is "to and for whomsoever it may concern of
Mammon-crushed Israel." One extract I fancy will suffice--one at any
rate I must give, otherwise such religious lunacy will be held
incredible.

"Oh, dutifully observe now, O all Israel, (namely) O Judah and
Ephraim, that this Universal Marriage overture unto you, together
with these Proxy Marriage lines and record, are made and offered you
entirely because 'I am' and Jesus Christ is Life, Love, and Light
everlasting, and because of His power and right to give, and the Son
of Man's to receive, and the worthy Woman to bring Him forth, and
Israel's to inherit,--viz., the promises unto Adam, Eve, Noah,
Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, and all their seed, who were originally
the void waters and dark-faced deep until God said, Let there be
Light and there was Light. And from henceforth there shall be Light,
and both Light and Love abundantly in Heaven, here below as in Heaven
above, for in the beginning God created Heaven and Earth, and did,
and is, and will finish on the sixth day the same and all the host of
them."

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
mamm