Show A PECULIAR FAITH tho the beliefs of the attained 4 I 1 I 1 there are still many who dis credit newspaper the i walnut hills perfectionist i 1 ats and are inclined to believe that they have been largely mi misrepresents a lions of facts to oine the doctrine about fhe ilie absolute perfection of mrs martin and arri brook brooks appears so supremely absurd and to others eo so hideously impious that they have been slow in estimating how hosi it could be taught 0 o at it all ill by any human being among the recent convert converts to this hideous doctrine is thel the llev tev duncan L je rome who came came to this thi city recently from spurgeon Spurge oae college london Eia england gland he had made arrangements to preach at the vine street cou congregational 11 church last sunday but failed to make his appearance giving as bis his excuse that his duty called him elsewhere of course his duty summoned h him 11 to the of tho the perfection 0 ests on walnut hills that was the extent of it exactly curious to know how ayoung a young theologian thoroughly imbued with christian doctrine could go 0 far overstep the bounds of reason as aa to believe in the perfection of nother christ a commercial gazette reporter called on the reverend gentleman at the thee albion hotel yesterday for the purpose of an interview int ervie iv he found mr jerome quite amable at the same time a little confused confuted in fact he seemed unable to answer the tile questions questions that were put to him he nd had no reason at all to give jive for the strange doctrine which I 1 he hk had ba d sos so suddenly a embraced arguments upset bis big reasoning faculties completely ely he appeared only able to td state that be he believed in the absolute perfection and impeccability of mrs martin and mrs arrs brooks it was truth but he could give no beason reason for it explaining the process of his conversion he be said laid 1 I came here to visit my brother who is an adherent odthe of the new faith with all MI in ray r theological prejudices against it but I 1 wa was not unwilling to attend the meetings and I 1 went more through curiosity than from froni the he bonear eudye af in v cw gation I 1 became convinced of the truth liand and embraced it forthwith I 1 am not an englishman as was stated in the public press I 1 am an american and was formerly a it member of the vine street now central congregational I 1 changed my conviction convictions 1 afterward to the baptist denomination and for the last year have been attending spurgeons college in london I 1 returned to this city a baptist 1 but now I 1 am ani a firm believer in th the new now doctrine of perfection dodou mean cosay to say that you are sire 11 no longer a baptist or a Ofir christian istia n well was the hesitating answer we r we hold that the christian churches have been tried and found wanting they have strayed away from the tru truth th although there is still left in them a great deal of good the doctrine of sanctification and the higher life has been lost of of course it is necessary therefore that we should shoula cut loofe from the churches although we are christians and believe in the bible as the inspired word of god if you believe in the bible that teaches one atonement one christ liow how can you believe that mrs martin is another christ well I 1 do not know how bow but that is the truth and we must believe it mrs bl martin artia wo we believe is perfect even as christ was per feet she is as much a manifestation af the deitlin Deit yin the flesh as was jesus christ she and mrs brooks brook 8 ve we believe have attained to a de grec gree of absolute absolu to perfection when inning is no 1213 impossibility what at assurance as r urance have you of that absolute absolu td perfection well we know that there arc are only two beings living who are thus perfect we ave believe the them M on their word they tell as us that they are sire convinced of being perfect ab sol ol eo so and we believe them implicitly we have no reason to doubt their word in so momentous a matter none of the others who belong to us are absolutely perfect but we ar aro on the high road to perfection we hope to reach it some time what is the character of your meetings 91 they are simple christian services we sing sing hymns read red the tha scriptures and so on but why are your meetings secret MY the them 1 truth loves light ciol aar darkness kness well we prefer to be by our ours selves we exclude noone oue from the meetings who has the desire to attend them seriously and in good faith we do not exact from any stranger ranger thus attending that he should bould believe in our doctrine bat we object to exposing x osing ourselves our salves to public ai ic rid culi aind contempt tempt thep are eo so many mady popular prejudices against us that we prefer t to have our gatherings in the sacred sacred crecine precincts djoi of the te home hom 0 circle rid pid I 1 understand you oya to eay say that you believe martin has any divine attributes attribute a jesua jesus christa C ag rist we believe in the di divinity n of mra mrs martin shu lia much 6 of the divinity aa as jesus cincinnati commercial |