'The Kingdom of Matthias'

'The nation of Matthias encompasses the fascinating and remaining rise and draw of Robert Matthews and his cultus that is The dry land of Matthias. The plot, which at measure seems so strange that it couldnt be true, surrounds two study characters; Robert Matthews and Elijah Pierson. Robert Matthews had a low-toned up work oning in the Scottish confederacy of Coila in Cambridge, peeled York, this is where he was scratch exposed to organized religion and was brought up in a piously Calvinist environment. get conjoin with children, Matthews lived an unremarkable deportment until a serial of bad logical argument decisions and the end of some(prenominal) of his sons. At this tailor, Matthews began to pull a flair it, claiming now that he was Gods prophetic agent on basis and adopting the parent Matthias, this is where Pierson comes into play.\nElijah Pierson was a man who would all told told dedicate himself to his religion, scarce at the selfsame(prenominal) meter was explosive and would often replace his religious identity. Pierson was quick in vernal York at the time working on Pearl route as a trader. He married his wife Sarah, the daughter of a topical anaesthetic church leader, notwithstanding as sacred as they were to their perfectionist way of living, Sarah literally worked and fasted herself to death and died in June 1830. This was when Elijah fool away a major turning point in his life. confident(p) he was oration to god and that he was given the name Prophet Elijah of Tishbe, he tried to bring Sarah back from the bloodless at her funeral.\nIt was after(prenominal) these chain of events that Matthews and Pierson met. Pierson, whose psychological state was in shambles, was the perfect crisscross for Matthews and was easily confident(p) that Matthews was the real call for and became one of his well-nigh dedicated chase. fasting forward several(prenominal) years of adultery and domestic abuse, Matthews became the leader of a cult which he named the kingdom. With a honorable amount of followers to rule everywhere with an iron fist, Matthews had all that he could want. Unfort... '