The Kingdom of Matthias

The kingdom of Matthias encompasses the fascinating and peculiar turn and fall of Robert Matthews and his frenzy that is The state of Matthias. The plot, which at times seems so bizarre that it couldnt be true, surrounds two major characters; Robert Matthews and Elijah Pierson. Robert Matthews had a modest upbringing in the Scottish community of Coila in Cambridge, innovative York, this is where he was premier exposed to religion and was brought up in a devoutly Calvinist env urge onment. Married with children, Matthews lived an terrestrial life until a serial of bad business decisions and the dying of some(prenominal) of his sons. At this point, Matthews began to neglect it, claiming now that he was paragons prophetic gene on earth and adopting the heel Matthias, this is where Pierson comes into play.\nElijah Pierson was a man who would wholly dedicate himself to his religion, but at the same time was inconstant and would often change his ghostly identity. Pierson was living in New York at the time functional on Pearl roadway as a trader. He married his wife Sarah, the girl of a local church service leader, however as apply 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 clear a major move point in his life. convinced he was speaking to matinee idol and that he was given the take Prophet Elijah of Tishbe, he seek to bring Sarah back from the brain dead at her funeral.\nIt was after these fibril of events that Matthews and Pierson met. Pierson, whose psychological state was in shambles, was the perfect patsy for Matthews and was intimately convinced that Matthews was the real serve up and became one of his most dedicated pursuit. Fast forward several years of adultery and domestic abuse, Matthews became the leader of a cult which he named the Kingdom. With a respectable amount of followers to rule over with an iron fist, Matthews had all that he could want. Unfort...