The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-07
aDODE sun NOVEL,
Rev. John Jasper's Great Lecture
at Washington-His Famous
Theory Proved From the Bible
Beyond all Contention.

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Beyond all Contention.
From the Washington POat, April 80.
Principally at 8 o'clock last night the
Rev. John Jasper livery black asceuded
the stage OF Lincoln hall and was intro
duced to rather slim audience by Mr..
W. johnson (brown.black). This celebra.
ted Baptist clergyman, who has grown in
notorieiy with the rapid growth Of
Jonah's gourd, is about Eve feet ten inches
high, sinewy and we'll made, with a round
bullet.head set firmly on strong, square
shoulders. His black and glossy fore
head slopes abruptly and steeply from the
eyebrows which are shaggy, prominent
and jutting, above deep set eyes that
the preacher gets well down to his work,
fairly burn with luminous light. His face
Is oval, with the advancing chin Of the
negro, but his features are quite shapely
and strongly marked. A shaggy beard
and moustache cover his face. His feet
are short but very broad with q high In.
step and no arch. He was dressed in 8
black cutaway coat and dark clothes, and
wore gold studs in his shirt front and
gold bowed spectacles on his nose. His
voice is strong, musical tenor Of much
power, but in its ordinary tones thick and
muftled. There is great deal Of magne.
,ism about the man; he Is thoroughly in
earnest, and at colored camp.meeting
would gather in the converts at a rate TO
gladden. the souls Of Wesley or White6eld.
His style is eminently adapted to the
wants Of his congregation, and only lacks
cultivation to be singularly powerful and
effective. He Is essentially dramatic, and
his descriptive powers are pictorial and
graphic 10 high degree. he is an un-
conscious hnmorist. Withal, be is q logi.
clan Of no mean rank, and reasons from
his premises TO his conclusions with a
force and directness that only need cult.
yation and information to be Of conyinc-
| ing weight and influence. Opening his
meeting with an old.fashioned hymn, in
which the audience joined, he read the
l14th Psalm, and called on Mr.. johnson
TO pray. Then he arose and said he"would
prove that the sun do stand still, prove il
from the leds OF the Bible" He didn't
know nothin' about ousiders; and dealt
only with Gods word which war writ by
holy men inspired by the spirit Of God,
moved upon by the Holy Ghost and au.
thorized by Gods authority to light q
lamp for the feet and prepare 4 guide for
the path" He was not q grammarian,
and had "never been TO school in his life,
except seven months thumbing Of New
York spelling book, but had been direct.
ed to STUDYING the Bible, and asked God
| for Jesus Chrisee's sake TO tighten hin"
he then described his conversion, his en-.
trance into the ministry, and the manner
in which be was brought into this argu.
ment. He had preached il BY request four
times, on each occasion his white hearers
| Increasing in number. Then warming
with his subject, and rising equal to the
emergency, he plunged into the famous
sermon which has carried the name Of
Jasper all over the country.
ladies and gentlemen said he, before
| proving, as l have been formerly do, that
The sun do move, | shall go into Egypt
extensively, and after devouring my sub.
iect will then travel into Canaan and
show by the Lords own mouth that the
sun gifts up in the morning, in the the east,
whar you can see him If you want to,
and goes over houses and trees and ter
ritories ane co't.houses till he goes down
in the west whar he hasteneth back again
10 the starting place. Now that the Lord
Ia man Of war, Just take notice Of Exo-
dus w., 8 and iscuse me TOR meandering
around In Egypt, for | shall not under:
take to prove that the sun do move until
/ get over into Canaan. From the
creation until the food when the Lord
drowned everybody but Noah and his
family was sixteen hundred and ffty.six
years. Then four hundred years after.
When the world had got de.multiplied
with people pretty thick like, the Lord
took Abraham out OF the land OF Haran
Way from his kindred and relations who
was idolaters, and after giving him q son
he made up his mind TO try Abrams
faith. It was so'ce Of pleasure for
Abraham-excuse me for calling him
| Abraham, his name was Abram, bat it
comes kinder pat but don't mean ito
look at young Isaac, but the Lord said,
say he, ADRIAN, take de boy up TO Morias'
| mounting, and strap to 4 pile Of logs for :
burnt sacrifice Now, il Abram had
been 3 philosopher and hadn't had
unshooken confidence he'd have said
Lord, II 1 stick my knife in young Isaac.
troAt whar ye gwine 10 get another boy oil
mine through whom to bless the human
race ? But Abram wasn't philosopher
he heard the Lord, he sAddled his ass, he
rode 10 MoriaS' mounting, and was iesi
ready 10 make burnt sacrifice Of Isaac
when an angel Of de Lord-I don't know
his other name-called ont TO Abram
See here, old man, that's enough; dom
kill the boy. Thar's an old ram got
caught by The horns in the thicket over
thar, make burnt sacrifice out othim
And Abraham he begot Lease, and Isaat
he beSot Jacob, and Jacob he begot twelve
.ou,, and they all went down into Egypt
land, whar I've been meandering all this
time. Thar they stayed four hudred years
and thar God said 10 Moses one day
Moses have heard the prayers and seer
he tears watched the cares and pittd tht
| fears Of my people down 10 Egypt, so yoJ
10 down to the royal town, tell Pharoat
bound with the lust Of the crown, that
saw let my people git But Moses hem
med and hSwed, and said, Sir, I amt vel
enough acquainted doWa there AnC
The Lord says, you amt amt you
We'll, take Aaron the Leyitic and he shal
be my speechman, to tell Pharoah to lei
my people co. So Moses he went down
and told P6aroah, and Pharoah, nothing
would do for him till they let the frog
on him. Then be got scared, | tell you
but II took the lice and the darkness anC
the destroying angel to work him up Z
the sticking point. And then when h!
did let them 90 he was sorry, ant
went alter them With sir hundred chariot
flied with colonies and captains. And
the Lord said 70 Moses. Jess tell you peo
RE to stand on one side and look Il me, FOL
I'm gWine 70 do the fighting this morn
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