The Kingdom of Matthias

The body politic of Matthias encompasses the fascinating and peculiar emanation and fall of Robert Matthews and his furore that is The region 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, in the buff York, this is where he was scratch exposed to religion and was brought up in a devoutly Calvinist env weighment. Married with children, Matthews lived an daily life until a serial publication of bad business decisions and the expiration of some(prenominal) of his sons. At this point, Matthews began to escape it, claiming now that he was perfections prophetic constituent on earth and adopting the diagnose Matthias, this is where Pierson comes into play.\nElijah Pierson was a man who would exclusively dedicate himself to his religion, but at the same time was volatile and would often chan ge his spiritual identity. Pierson was living in New York at the time working on Pearl passageway as a trader. He married his wife Sarah, the young lady of a local church service leader, however as devote 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 overhead a major routine point in his life. persuade he was speaking to god and that he was given the soma Prophet Elijah of Tishbe, he tried to bring Sarah back from the d.o.a. at her funeral.\nIt was after these kitchen range of events that Matthews and Pierson met. Pierson, whose psychological state was in shambles, was the perfect patsy for Matthews and was comfortably convinced that Matthews was the real can and became one of his most utilise following. Fast forward several years of adultery and interior(prenominal) abuse, Matthews became the leader of a cult which he named the Kingdom. With a respectable amount of f ollowers to rule over with an iron fist, Matthews had all that he could want. Unfort...