River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-08

jail W lilFc6LlEdtE ~. BGnl w WOik
in the Chicago public library and | dug
out my lecture Oh the second coming
AS result of that investigation / went
to work and wrote my lecture. Ny lee
ture is briefly this: That the Fecond
coming of Christ occurred in the de-
struction of Jerusalem, in the clouds.
over Jerusalem; that it was an
event in the spiritual world, and
that the destruction of Jerusalem
was an outward sign of His
coming. / hold that for all these
eighteen centuries the churches have
all been in error ia surprising the
second coming of Christ to be in the
future. That is the proposition on
which my lecture was written, and that
was the result of three or four years
investigation on the subject. Witness
then went on to relate his various fail
ures in delivering the lecture in Chi
cago, Evanston, Kalamazoo, Ann
Arbor, Detroit, Ypsilanti. Toledo,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Washington, Roch-
ester, Syracuse, Albany, Troy and
elsewhere. He frequently laughed
as he repeated some humorous
incident of his failure. At various
times he was put off the cars for not
paying his fare, and arrested for not
paying his board bills. At other times
be grew excited and asserted that in all
he did he was like ST. Paul, engaged in
the services of God, and that God was
therefore responsible fol all his board
bills. On this latter point he said,
did not give up lecturing because my
repeated failure, | stuck to my work
my idea was that | was working for tn.
Lord. / would do my duty and lei
Him take care of me as he fell dis.
posed. / went into that whole business
to serve the Lord, to make money, sue.
cess or failure was nothing to me.
considered that was the Lords affair
my duty was to continue with my
work. | have had no success because
/ had new ideas on theology. | kept
thinking of Paul all the time, and
stuck to my theology all the time. Or
my way from Baltimore to Washington
/ avoided the conductor, who had or.
dered me to get off at the relay house
and so managed to get to Washington
The strangest thing about it was, after
had eluded the conductor, mar
came along and said to me: "Mv friend
are you going to Washington" I said
Eyes" He said. "Would you like a
good boarding houseY l said eyes,
and he said he could take me to one
Now had been praying / could get 8
boarding house, as | did not want tc
go to a hotel, and had no sooner goI
the prayer out when this man came
along, and was just as free and easy
with me as l. he had known me twenty
years. Now that / call providence.
have had hundreds of that kind of ex
periences, where direct answer te
prayer has been rendered me-
While the prisoner was giving his
testimony he was watched most atten
lively by all the medical experts pres
ent, and with great curiosity by every
person in the crowded court room. A
times he showed exhaustion by lower
ing his voice, and it was in consequence
of these signs that some 10 minutes
before the usual time of adjournmen
the court at the instance of the distric
attorney, adjourned.
FOURTEENTH DAY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Guiteau' re
cital, yesterday, of his varied expert
ences as a religious tramp and deao
beat, seems to have whetted public in
terest, for despite the rain, the crowC
was as great as yesterday.
Upon the opening of the court Gui
teau was taken directly to the witness
box. The witness was asked by SEQ
vile to identify some papers. The frs
shown him was hand bill announcing
lecture at Evanston, Ill.
eyes," said Guiteau, turning it rounC
to the jury with an air of satisfaction
"that was an announcement of one o
my lectures; shall / read it?"
Scoville-"No; will put these pa
pers in evidence"
Guiteau then gave his ideas concern
ing the religious tenets of the Oneids
community. The witness continued tC
say 1868 instead of 1878, and his atten
ton being called to it, explained: g
don't feel very we'll to-day; my brair
don't work just right; probably owing
to the rain
Guiteau then resumed the narrative
of his experience at
TRYING TO LECTURE.
He once tried to lecture against Boz
Ingersoll, who was to deliver lecture
against hell, while he witness propos
ed to lecture On the existence of he'll
While he found, however, "peoplt
very ready to pay fifty cents to heal
that there was no hell, they would MOI
pay a cent to hear that there was 6
he'll
The witness was asked to identity 8
book handed him, he said: "Oh, yes
it is my revised work, called "A Com
panion Book to the Bible. have no.
seen it since it was taken from me wher
| was arrested"
the witness then desired to read s
passage, and read page or two de
scriptive of the trials os the apostles il
endeayoring to introduce Christianity
"That was just my case" said Guiteau
striking his fist on the desk; 81
sTRovE TO ENLlGHTEN THE WORLD,
just as Paul did had no money and
no friends, and l had just about a,
rough time as the apostle had"
The witness then related his expert.
ences IN the state department, and his
interviews with Secretary Blaine, de.
scribing as he termed it, the m1odas ope.
randi of getting at the secretary of state
Witness described his last interview
with Blaine, who rather hurt his
feelings by his abrupt manner
which was in contrast with his
previous cordially. The witness then
determined to see the president, and
with considerable exhibition of excite
nent related his efforts to see the pres
ident. Witness continued "that the
party was at lager head and | got very
much worried over it. | wrote that
something must be done, but he paid
no attention to it." ~ kept worrying,
he continued, lover the political situa-
ton, and knew that this nation was
coming to grief"
Witness was then asked as to the in
spiration which he said impelled him
to remove the president, and he re-
piled:
"The inspiration, as | understand it,
is where mans mind is in possession
of and by the Supreme power, anere
he acts outside of himself.
Witness then desired TO read
from printed pamphlet, pur-
porting to be an interview with prison
er, giving his theology subject.
Counsel for prosecution objected to
the reading or the use of it by witness
to refresh his memory.
A discussion ensued, prisoner insist
ing that he was not feeling well. that he