Prussian Evangelical Templers in Carmel
Posted on April 28, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
On CBS News I saw a Jew kill a Palestinian famer. He came with a group from an illigal Israeli settlement that is against International Law. I then did some research and found George Jones Adams who colonized the Palestine alongside the German Templers. Adams was a Mormon. I almost became a member when several sister took interest in my German grandfathers who colonized Belmont. I showed them the Stuttmeister tomb and statue of Jesus!
It’s all coming together! I claim the Palestinian land that was owned by the Templer Colonists who were departed to Australia, I assume by the British! The odds that I AM THE MESSIH has increased! I declare myself the head of American Christian Zionism./ Am I a true Prophet of the LDS church?
John Presco ‘The Nazarite’
Kingdom of The Twin Pines
Posted on September 23, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Templer Jesus Fish
by
John Presco
Copyright 2023
George J. Adams
For other people named George Adams, see George Adams (disambiguation).
George Jones Adams (c. 1811 – May 11, 1880) was the leader of a schismatic Latter Day Saint sect who led an ill-fated effort to establish a colony of Americans in Palestine. Adams was also briefly a member of the First Presidency in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite). In preparation for colonizing Palestine, he changed his name to George Washington Joshua Adams, to tie himself to two well-known country builders: George Washington of the United States and Joshua, from the Hebrew Bible.
| George J. Adams | |
|---|---|
| Adams c. 1841 | |
| Founder of the Church of the Messiah | |
| 1861 | |
| Member of the First Presidency in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite). | |
| 1846 – 1851 | |
| Called by | James Strang |
| End reason | Excommunicated from the Strangite church |
| Member of the Council of Fifty | |
| Between Mar. 14 and Apr. 11, 1844 – February 4, 1845 | |
| Called by | Joseph Smith |
| End reason | Excommunicated from LDS Church |
| Personal details | |
| Born | George Jones Adams c. 1811 Oxford, New Jersey |
| Died | May 11, 1880 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Cause of death | “typhoid pneumonia“ |
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Conversion and early church serviceedit
George Jones Adams was born in Oxford, New Jersey of Welsh descent. By the 1830s, he had been trained as a Methodist preacher and was a merchant tailor. He was also an aspiring Shakespearean actor, but had little success in being cast in roles.
While traveling from Boston to New York City in February 1840, George, and his wife Caroline (née Youngs) Adams, heard the preaching of Latter Day Saint apostle Heber C. Kimball, and were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the same week. Within a month he had become an elder in the church. In the spring/summer of 1840, the Brooklyn Branch was organized with him as branch president in New York City, NY (HC, 4:22). In 1841, Adams traveled to England as a missionary for the church; he was successful in winning numerous converts and stayed in England for eighteen months. Adams returned from England with a one-year-old son, George Oscar; his wife Caroline would raise the boy as her own.
In October 1843, church president Joseph Smith asked Adams to travel with apostle Orson Hyde as a missionary to Russia. In 1844, Smith invited Adams to join the exclusive Council of Fifty. On June 7, 1844, Smith set apart Adams “to be an apostle and special witness … to the empire of Russia”, in preparation for the Mormon political kingdom.[1] However, just prior to Adams’ planned departure later that month, all church political efforts were suspended after Smith was killed and the church was thrown into turmoil. Adams returned to New England as a regular missionary, and, along with William Smith, Joseph Smith’s surviving brother,[1] created much turmoil among the branches there, claiming to be the “Thirteenth Apostle” and “greater than Paul,” and therefore having more authority than any of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. On April 10, 1845, Adams was excommunicated by the Quorum of Twelve Apostles for proposing that the church be led by Joseph Smith III (Joseph Smith’s eldest son) under the guardianship of William Smith.[1]
Back in Boston in 1847, Adams was the main witness in the trial of Cobb v. Cobb, in which Henry Cobb sued his wife, Augusta Adams Cobb, for divorce, for having committed adultery with Joseph Smith’s successor, Brigham Young; she had married Young in November 1843 without first divorcing Henry. The court case went to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, presided over by Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, and was widely reported in newspapers nationwide.[citation needed]
Strangite leaderedit
After his excommunication, Adams came to accept the spiritual leadership of James J. Strang, and in December 1846 became editor of Star in the East, a Strangite publication printed in Boston. He then was ordained Strang’s counselor in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite). In 1850, Adams crowned Strang with a metal crown as a spiritual “king of Israel”, and Adams was appointed to be Strang’s “prime minister” and “viceroy“. However, by 1851, Adams had been excommunicated from the Strangite church on recurring charges of embezzlement, adultery, apostasy, and drunkenness. Adams and his second wife, Louisa Isabella Pray, moved to Maine where they had two children, son Clarence and daughter Georgina Augustine.
Church of the Messiahedit
By the late 1850s, Adams had established a church in New England called the Church of the Messiah. Adams claimed to be a prophet of Jesus Christ to the world and began publication of a periodical called The Sword of Truth and Harbinger of Peace. In 1864, Adams established the headquarters of his church in Washington County, Maine, near the Canada–US border. Later that year, Adams announced a great mission whereby he and his followers would travel to and settle in Palestine. Adams taught that their colony could prepare the land for the return of the Jews, which in turn would hasten the Second Coming of Jesus. The members of the church donated much of their money to the church in an effort to realize Adam’s proposal.
Settlement in Palestineedit
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Adams’ friendship with Orson Hyde heavily influenced his decision to move to Palestine. Hyde was the first Mormon envoy to Jerusalem, and Adams “dreamed of replicating Hyde’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land.”[2] After migrating around the Northeast for some years, Adams settled in Indian River, Maine, and prophesied that the prerequisite the Second Coming was “the Jews’ restoration to Palestine.”[2]
In 1865, Adams and Indian River’s postmaster, Abraham McKenszie, traveled to Palestine and arranged for the purchase of a tract of land near Jaffa.[2] Upon returning to the United States, Adams organized the Palestine Emigration Association to coordinate his church’s move. In February 1866, Adams was received by U.S. President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward at the White House.[citation needed] Seward agreed to expedite a petition from Adams and his church members to the government of the Ottoman Empire to ensure that the American settlers’ title to the land Adams arranged to purchase was respected.
One hundred and fifty-six members of the Church of the Messiah sailed from Boston to Jaffa on the Nellie Chapin, arriving on September 22, 1866. The colony began by camping on the beach, relying on local Arabs for food and water. Within a month, six children and three adults had died. By November, the colony had erected a number of simple frame houses.
The pilgrims secured a 10-acre (40,000 m2) plot of land outside of Jaffa, where they founded the American Colony, named Amelican in Arabic, or Adams City in English, between today’s Rechov Eilat and Rechov haRabbi mi-Bacherach in Tel Aviv-Yafo. However, the settlers quickly encountered problems. Scavengers ravaged their crops and the community faced famine heading into the winter of 1866-67.[3] This and the climate, the insecure and arbitrary treatment by the Ottoman authorities, made many colonists willing to return to Maine.
But their leader Adams withheld their money, which the colonists had earlier conveyed to him. So the missionary Peter Metzler of the Protestant mission in Jaffa bought the land of five colonists, providing them the funds to leave.[4] Adams was drinking heavily at the time and had lost his control over the colonists. In April, a group of colonists appealed to the American consul to the Ottoman Empire for assistance in returning to America. By the end of the month, the U.S. government had arranged for 26 settlers to return. By the end of summer, after the colony’s crop harvest was a disastrous failure, only Adams and 40 other settlers remained. By October 1867, the U.S. State Department had appropriated $3000 for the return of any of the remaining colonists who wished to leave Palestine, while by December 1867, the colony had run out of money and resources.
Some of the colonists traveled back to America on the ship Quaker City; Mark Twain was a passenger on the same journey and he wrote about the failed settlers in his 1869 book The Innocents Abroad.[5] Upon returning to the United States, many of Adams’ former followers joined the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In June 1868, Adams and his wife left Palestine and sailed to England. Twenty of the original colonists remained in Palestine, some of them permanently.
The colonists who left would sell much of their real estate in the colony to newly arriving settlers, called Templers, coming from Württemberg in 1869. On 5 March 1869 also Metzler sold most of his real estate to the new colonists, thus Adams City became later known as the German Colony of Jaffa.[6]
Return to America and deathedit
Although Adams preached briefly in Liverpool and tried to raise followers for a second attempt at settling Palestine, he had returned to America by 1870. He preached in Philadelphia and in 1873 opened a “Church of the Messiah” building for Sunday sermons. When confronted on his past exploits by former followers or others, Adams would deny his identity and past. He died in Philadelphia of “typhoid pneumonia”.[7] His son, Clarence A. Adams, was a Baptist clergyman in Pennsylvania until his death in the 1920s.
No White Jesus – Please!
Posted on February 10, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Strange. Did the Sisters who came to visit me know of this pending change? They were very interested in my Suttmeister grandfathers.
John
Nearly three years ago, the governing First Presidency declared that artwork of Jesus — and only of Jesus — should adorn the foyers and entryways of the church’s meetinghouses.
Leaders even provided a list of nearly two dozen paintings approved for such use and reportedly are working to expand those offerings for a more diverse representation of Christ.
Aiming to give that effort a nudge, women and artists from a range of races and cultural backgrounds have banded together in hopes of filling Latter-day Saint buildings with a “Meetinghouse Mosaic” of pieces that depict Jesus more accurately.
“Christ historically had brown skin,” the group’s website states, “and that is the depiction we believe needs to be shared on our walls, in our manuals, on our bulletin boards, in our lessons and be the standard amongst all of us.”
A gallery showcasing new artwork of Jesus is planned for a year from now, in February 2024, at Provo’s Writ & Vision, according to a By Common Consent blog.
“Jurors will not accept white depictions of Christ for this show,” the post adds. “The goal of this show is to broaden the vision of how Christ, the Savior of the world, can be depicted and spotlight the religious artworks of people of color.”
The Mormon Americanization of Cristus
Posted on May 26, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
A life-size image of Christus watches over my Stuttmeister kin in Berlin…..forever?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christus_(statue)
5 things you never knew about the Christus statue – LDS Living
After the three Mormon Sisters left my home, I mediated on the claim that Jesus came to America. Is there any real substantial proof of this? You could say whoever presents the BEST answer to this claim, and presents the more thorough doctrine backing up this unbelievable idea – becomes the head of the Mormon church. If Mormon Founders did anything special, they Americanized Jesus Christ. They put an image of him standing next to a covered wagon – and a team of oxen? Why staddle the fence any longer. Consider…..The Art.
The greatest artist to come out of Nebraska – by far – is Gutzon Borglum, who created Mount Rushmore and the Confederate monument that is in the news. Gutzon and his family lived in Omaha and Fremont City. When they moved to Los Angeles, my kindred, Jessie Benton-Fremont, became his patron. She sent Gutzon to famous art schools in Europe. Gutzon did a bust of Jessie, and a portrait of John Fremont.
Bertel Thorvaldsen claimed he descends claimed descent from Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first European born in America. My ex-wife Mary Ann Tharaldsen claims descent from Eric the Red. She was a artist. If religious artwork replaced religious doctrine, then, everyone would be well-pleased, except for the Jews and Muslims who claim they are not allowed t make “graven images”. How many religious books contain genealogies? I took over Herbert Armstrong’s Radio Church of God. I tried to save KORE which was an American Temple for British Israelism and the Family Trees it promotes. This morning I awoke with the idea I may have found an integral religion that will be a Repository for Royal Rosamond Press ‘A Newspaper For The Art’ and perhaps the longest genealogical search – in American History! I will post on GRANITE MOUNTAIN.
John Presco
Four hours after I posted, I read this…
Documents Shed Light on Secret U.S. Plans for Apocalyptic Scenarios (msn.com)
WASHINGTON — Newly disclosed documents have shed a crack of light on secret executive branch plans for apocalyptic scenarios — like the aftermath of a nuclear attack — when the president may activate wartime powers for national security emergencies.
Bertel Thorvaldsen – Wikipedia
Granite Mountain Records Vault – Mormonism, The Mormon Church, Beliefs, & Religion – MormonWiki
This teaching argues that the Ten Tribes of Israel are currently represented by those of Anglo-Saxon heritage (particularly those in Great Britain). Armstrong believed that true Christianity ceased to exist after the death of the apostles and that Christ’s church did not appear again until the institution of the WCG.
Could the Mormon Church end up like the Worldwide Church of God?
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Though I can’t recall addressing this publicly, I am often asked whether or not I envision the Mormon Church making a radical departure from heresy like the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) did back in the 1980s. For those unfamiliar with the history of the WCG, allow me to give a very brief overview.
The WCG was founded in 1934 by Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) primarily as a radio ministry and was originally known as The Radio Church of God. The WCG name came about in 1968. Armstrong was probably best known for the controversial teaching of Anglo-Israelism (or British-Israelism). This teaching argues that the Ten Tribes of Israel are currently represented by those of Anglo-Saxon heritage (particularly those in Great Britain). Armstrong believed that true Christianity ceased to exist after the death of the apostles and that Christ’s church did not appear again until the institution of the WCG. He rejected the Trinity and became a Sabbatarian. He also taught that keeping the commandments was necessary as a means of salvation.
When Armstrong died in 1986, the WCG saw radical doctrinal changes under successor Joseph W. Tkach (1927-1995). When Tkach died in 1995, the leadership was left to his son, Joseph Tkach, Jr., who continued with his father’s reforms. So great were the changes that the WCG shed the label of cult and is now accepted in the Evangelical fold. As changes were being implemented, membership and revenue continued to drop. Some have estimated that the membership peaked at just under 150,000. In 2009, the WCG changed its name to Grace Communion International; its current membership stands at around 42,000.
I agree that what happened with the WCG was unprecedented. Never before have we seen such an incredible doctrinal transformation. Can this happen with the LDS Church? Of course, with God anything is possible, but I personally think the checks and balances inherent in Mormonism make this extremely unlikely. Remember, the WCG was ruled by only a few men. The LDS Church has a minimum of 15 men in the First Presidency and Council of the Twelve, all of whom would have to agree to abandon a host of heretical teachings.
Some have pointed to scattered comments from Mormon academics that give hope to imminent change; however, while such lay members may have their opinions (inconsistent as they often are), they have no authority to make doctrinal changes for the church.
Do those who think the LDS Church is changing ever listen to general conference and/or read church publications? Those of us who do have yet to see anything that hints of such a change. In fact, I myself have been a little surprised at how much traditional Mormonism has been dusted off recently and reintroduced publicly to the membership. Who would have imagined that two separate speakers at the general conference last October would highlight Ezra Taft Benson’s “Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet” speech? This is hardly a move towards orthodoxy!
President Gordon Hinckley stated in general conference,
“Those who observe us say that we are moving into the mainstream of religion. We are not changing. The world’s perception of us is changing. We teach the same doctrine” (Ensign, November 2001, p.5).
If the Mormons insist they are not modifying their doctrines, why are Christians claiming they are?
Even if President Monson did announce that Mormonism was just a bad joke, consider how many splinter groups would immediately form. Some have estimated that there are literally hundreds of splinter groups now claiming to teach true WCG doctrine, and that from among a peak membership of 150,000. Imagine the number from a church that currently represents 14 million members.
Knight Stuttmeister (Stallmeister)
Posted on January 26, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Come unto me”
Berlin-Mitte (Stadtbezirk Mitte von Berlin, Ortsteil Mitte), Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof, Chausseestraße 126 (siehe oben); Grabanlage der Familie Stuttmeister, Rittergutsbesitzer aus Charlottenburg, errichtet 1890 aus Granit, Grabwand mit rundbogiger Wandnische in einer Säulenädikula (Ädikula-Nische) und Christusfigur aus Bronze nach Entwurf des Berliner Bildhauers Julius Moser (1832-1916) in Anlehnung an die berühmte Christusfigur von 1839 des Bildhauers Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) in der Frauenkirche von Kopenhagen; zuletzt das rechts angrenzende Grab des Hermann Heinrich Alexander Wentzel (1820-1889), Architekt und königlicher Baurat, ebenfalls eine aufwendige Anlage aus Granit mit einer Bildnisbüste aus Bronze des Bildhauers Fritz Schaper (1841-1919); Aufnahmedatum: 20.5.2019
Thorvaldsen was commissioned to sculpt statues of Jesus and the apostles for the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen. The statue of Jesus was completed in 1821.The statue is 345 centimeter high.[1] The inscription at the base of the sculpture reads “Kommer til mig” (“Come to me”) with a reference to the Bible verse: Matthew 11:28.
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