Kingdom Of Mathias

“The meeting of the Prophets Matthias and Joseph Smith was one of hundreds of strange religious events that occurred all across the United States from the 1820s through the 1840s” (6). These were the peak years of the market revolution and the Second Great Awakening.

During anytime of great change and uncertainty, people who are directly affected can be left searching for answers to such questions as why did this happen, and why did it happen to me? They may feel like they have lost their place and interpret certain things that only apply to them or want to apply to them. Certainly the market revolution and Robert Matthews are no exception.

The major theme of The Kingdom of Matthias is that uncertainty breeds individual vulnerability. This can make people susceptible to believing and behaving in ways that they normally would not.

The first example is Elijah Pierson. “He was a supremely unlikely candidate for membership in the cult of Matthias” (13). Leaving a tight-knit patriarchal society, he took a job as an apprentice clerk in New York City hoping to earn his fortune in the nation’s faste

The Kingdom of Matthias also provided facts that we might not have known the origin of, or for that matter, at all. Isabella was Sojourner Truth, and Joseph Smith founded the enduring religious Institution Church of Jesus Christ for Latter-day Saints.

Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz also provide background information of major aspects of human life affected by the market revolution including family life, sexuality, and social class.

believe. This also holds true in respect to his followers also, including Isabella Van Wagenen, Catherine Galloway, and the Folgers.

His luck ended in the market revolution. “Having done all-too-well early on, he badly stretched his resources in trying to enlarge his store” (62). He went bankrupt and his reputation was damaged. God was testing him again. But now his misfortunes had cost him money and most of his friends.

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