Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-04-14
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ANOTHER TANNER.
The Gentleman Who Proposes "a For.
ty-HVe-day Fast.
Chicago Tribune.

NnlCagu iTouuS'
Mr.. John Griscom, the faster, arrived
in Chicago from New the other night,
and is now stopping at the Palmer house.
About May / he will enter upon a forty
five days fast in this city, and it was in
regard to this approaching trial that
Mr.. Griscom was visited and inter.
viewed by Tribune reporter. The
"faster" was found to be tall and
heavily-built man, with full, pleasant
face, and dark mustache, and appar-
emily about 45 years old. He proved
himself fluent talker, and showed
himself the be entirely wrapped up
heart and soul, in theory which is
simply wonderful and to prove the cor
RICHNESS of which he is devoting his
life. Briefly this is what was gained
from the interview:
Up to the time Mr. Griscom was 20
wears OLD he was called a school Ounce.
that is, he could not read two lines
and remember them the same number
of minutes; could not add up a column
of three figures, and so on BY some
accident be was induced to fast for for
weight hours, and instantly his mental
faculties became supreme. All he had
ever seen, heard or read Of came to
him instantly. More than all that he
was possessed Of divine ins.incts-was
born again-the humiliation of death
and the Immortality of the soul be-
came revealed to him. This happy
state of affairs continued three weeks.
when the old lethargic state was
brought about voluntarily, as an en-
pertinent, by gluttony. After three
months more of lethargy the ascend
ency Of the spiritual over the bodily
organism was produced by another fast
of forty-eight hours. Again, after three
weeks of divine instincts and knowl-
edge, the gluttony was once more re-
sorted to and once more came the old
stage Of lethargy. But when the man
endeavored 10y third fast of forty
eight hours to create Il third spiritual
ascendency the result would not be
brought about. Then he discovered
that the failure was due to the fact that,
after his second fast, and after its re-
suits had been dispelled by gluttony, he
had broken life of contiuency. This
satisfied him of one tning--that man
who had been continent all his lfe
could, by fasting forty-eight hours, be
born again. He could secure divine
mental and spiritual faculty, could read
the future, and would never experience
death. 70 use Mr.. Griscom's own
words, at would beat Christ"
For the past eighteen years Mr.. Girls
com has been endeavoring to regain
the conditions resulting from life Of
CONTINGENCY in order that he might, by n
fast of forty-eight hours, bring about
this spiritual ascendency; but he has
not yet succeeded. On n number of
occasions he has tasted twenty DAYS,
and on very many occasions from eight
to ten days. Although he came from
each trial with clear mental faculties
he could never see the original divinely
happy state. He does not expect to by
this fast of forty-tive days, but he hopes
to create link in the chain by which
he proposes to lead the public to his be-
lief
Mr.. Griscom looks upon the matter
solely from z scientific standpoint, and
will not enter into any money-making
scheme. Accordingly he has brought
the matter before the members Of the
Rush medical college faculty, and ar
ranged with Prof Lyman and Prof.
Haines of that institution to superin-
tend the fast in all its details. Mr.
Griscom will start for New York Mon
day, but will return 70 the city few
days later, and is soon to address the
faculty of Rush medical college on the
subject of fasting.