The Evening critic., 1881-12-28

| in having insufficient counsel, but nOtwith-
standing this expect justice will DO done
me and my motive and inspiration vindi.
Gated. People are saying: We'll, IL the
Lord did it, lee it co. expect this spirit
will grow.
81 am highly pleased with Gen. Arthur.
He Is doing splendidly in his new position.
Had Gen. Garfield done as we'll he probably
would have been alive to-day. He was
good man, but weak politician. am es-
pccially pleased with Gen. Arthur's concii-
atory spirit and wisdom toward the opposi-
ton. 1t is exactly what / wished him to
do, viz: Unite the factions of the Republic
can party to the end that the nation may
be happy and prosperous.
"My life has been rather sad one. My
mother died when | was seven. My father
was good man and an able one, but n IA
matte on religion. Under his influence got
into the Oneida Community at 10 and re-
NAMED six years. Three years after this /
was unfortunately married, and so con-
tinued four years. Soon after L was di-
vorced / went on to theology three years.
| My life in the Oneida Community was one
of constant suffering. My married life the
same. My theological life one of anxiety,
but was happier at that than anything
else because | was serving tho Lord. My
| life has been isolated. During my six years
in the Oneida Community got estrangcd
| from my relatives. l might as well have
been in prison or u lunatic asylum. / never
was able to forgive my father for running
me into that Community. fit had not been
for this should have had far happier life.
But let it go. Forgetting the thing be-
hind, press forward. l have no doubt as
to my spiritual destiny. l have always
been q lover of the Lord, and whether
lixa nun t,aar htrtxy I an,
matter of fact, Ipresume shall live toIbe
President. To-day eighteen hundred and
eightyone years ago, the Saviour of man
kind was born in poverty and obscurity.
He moved up and down Judea, and spoke
as one having authority. Vast multitudes
followed him He cast out devils, healed
the sick, restored the blind and diseased,
| told the multitude who He was, and what
He came for; "that God the Father, had
sent Him to point the races the way to
eternal life. This wonderful being had no.
where to lay His head. He had no money.
He had no friends. He never travelled. He
never wrote book. He was hated, de-
spised, and finally crucifed as vile i'm
poster. Then back He went to the bosom
ofthe Father During His ministry He
drew around Himself n few despised indi-
viduals, who were us poor rs Himself.
They had no money and no standing in
society, and were mostly fishermen.
| "Outwardly, like most other great events
in human history, the origin of Christian
ity was an absolute failure. 1t was like a
seed planted, and it had to grow little by
little Time has developed it into gigan-
tic tree, overhanging the habitable globe.
The mob crucifed the Saviour of mankind,
and Paul, his great Apostle, went to an
| ignominious death. This happened many
| par ttia For ai0lt ao,, ,tia M
men have excrted such tremendous influ-
ence on the civilization of the race as the
despised Galilean and his great Apostle.
They did their work and left the result
with the Almighty Father. And so must
all inspired men. They must do their work
and leave the result with the Deity, what.
ever becomes of them personally. The
worst that men can do is to kill you, but
they cannot prevent your name and work
from going laundering down the ages. God
always avenges those who injure His men,
Christ's contemporaries crucifled the AL
mighty's only son, but He got even with
the Jewish race at the destruction of Jeru.
salem, A. d. 20, when Titus Roman gen.
eral, RACED that city to the ground and
slaughtered over eleven hundred thousand
Jews, and from that day to this the Jews
have been despised and down-trodden
race. The mills of the gods grind slow, but
they grind sure. Woe unto any man OF
men that prosecute Gods man. The AL.
mighty will follow them in this world and
in the next.
"Take my own case. When the pressure
to remove the President came on me
spent two weeks in prayer to make sure Of
the Deity's will. At the end of two weeks
my mind was fixed as to the political neces
sity for his removal, and / never have had
the slightest doubt since about the divinity
for the act and tho necessity for it. Thus
far the Deity has furthered the act to my
entire satisfaction. He knows / simply ex
ccuted His will and know it, and a great
many people are beginning to sec it, and
they will see it more and more as time ad
vanccs. put up my life on the Deity's in
SEPARATION, and l have not come to grief yet,
and have no idea will, because do moi
think / am destined to be shot or hung
But that is q matter for the Deity to pas:
on and not me. Whatever the mode of my
exit from this world have no doubt but
my name and work will go laundering
down the ages, but woe unto the men that
kill me privately or !iudcially."
Omitted States Jail, Washington, ID. G..
Christmas, 1881.