Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-30

some first newspaper men and they said
it was a brilliant idea, and thought it
| feasible. II I had got hold of the money
1t would have been feasible. I consulted
several parties about it and they all thought
it grand scheme, but would not put money
into it and so it fell through. Among others
Iapplied to Mr.. Adams, president of the Sec
ond National bank, of Freeport, supposed to
be worth half million dollars. / told him
would make him governor of Illinois and he
SAID he did not want to be governor. He had
been state senator and was man of reputation
and character, but he did not pan out very
we'll after my interview with him. He did not
have any political aspirations. I wanted to
| get hold of those fellows who had both asplr-
| ations and money. They were the kind of
fellows to help me. Adams did not seem to
care anything about being governor. He
was a man of about GO years, and he
preferred his old simple way of
politics. I also consulted my old friend
Charlie Reed, in the matter. believe be put
S25 into it which he has not got back yet.
| (Laughter). I went into theology after that
and that was worse than the newspaper busi-
ness The idea of publishing the New York
Herald simultaneously il Chicago was part Of
the Inter Ocean scheme: l looked
presses. consulted the manager of the
| Western Union Telegraph company and also
the manager of the Atlantic & Pacific Tele-
graph company. The Atlantic s. Pacific was
| just starting at that time, aud its manager was
| an active young fellow who wanted to get
business. I said proposed to duplicate the
| New York HeraId's dispatches, and he
| thought it an immense thing, and SO Ii was
I wrote James Gordon Bennett about the dis
patches. think I told him that if he helped
me out in the matter I would consider the
Herald suit at an end
Q.-After you gave up the newspaper enter
| prise in Chicago what did you do next? A
| That brought me down to the winter, and in
| the spring of 1876 tried to pick up some law
business again, which 1 had negle. ted,
but law business was scarce, and l
I went out TO your place in Wisconsin. I
worked round the house, studied thology and
the new testament, read the papers, soaped
trees and all that sort of thing. On October
7th was in Chicago During the Moody and
Sankey meetings attended the prayer meet
tngs and services regularly every night during
the three mouths Moody was there, from
was with Moody and bore an
active part. was usher and
helped around in general way, and spoke
at prayer meetings frequently. Sometime in
November during the Moody work heard DR..
Klttridge, of Chicago, pastor Of the Third
Presbyterian churcn say in regard to the text
IF I will he meaning John 'tarry till I come,
what is that to theeT "Brethern have to
confess as man of God that do not know
what that means" At that time
there was much expectation in the public
mind that the Saviour might appear, and that
idea has prevailed in peoples minds ever since.
That set my brain whirling, and began to
investigate it. went to work in the Chicago
public library, and I dug out my lecture
on the second coming. As a result OF
that investigation / went to town and wrote
my lecture. The idea of the letter is briefly
this: That the second coming of Christ oc-
CURED on the destruction of Jerusalem; that
it was an event lin the spiritual world;
that the destruction of Jerusalem
was the outward sign of his
coming I hold that for all these eighteen
centuries the churches have all been in error
in supposing the second coming of Christ will
which my lecture was the result of three or
four years investigation of the subject"
The witness then went on to re.
late his various failures in de-
livering the lecture at Chicago, Evanston,
Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor. Detroit, Ypsilanti,
Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Washington,
Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Troy and else
some humorous incident of his failures. At
various times he was put off railroad cars for
not paying board bills. At other times he
grew excited in the assertion that in all
he did he was like Saint Paul,
engaged in the service of God, and that God
was therefore responsible for his board bills.
On this latter point he said, 81 did not give
up lecturing because of my repeated failures;
stuck to my work. My IDEA was that as
was working for the Lord would do my duty
and let him take care of me as he felt disposed.
went into that whole business to serve the
Lord, not to make money. Success or failure
was nothing to me. / considered that the
Lords affair. My duty was to continue with
my work. Paul had no success because he
had new ideas on theology. kept thinking
of Paul all the time, and he stuck to his the
ology all the time. On my way from Balti-
! more to Washington I avoided the con-
ductor, who had ordered me to get off
at the Relay house and so managed to get on
| to Washington. The strangest thing about it
| was that after had changed my seat man
| came along, said to me, my friend, are You
going to Washington l said, yes he
said, would you like good boarding house?'
one. Now had b9en praying that i could
get boarding house, as l did
| and had no sooner got my prayer out, then
| the man came along and was just as free and
| easy with me as if he had known me twenty
years. NOW, tnaI 1 call providence. nave
had hundreds of that kind of experiences
where direct answer to prayer has been
rendered me-"
While the prisoner was giving his testi-
! mony he was watched most attentively
by all medical experts present and with great
curiosity by every person in the crowded court
| room. At times he showed his exhaustion by
lowering his voice, and it was in consequence
of one of those signs that some ten minutes
before the usual time of adjournment the court
at the instance of the district attorney ad.
journed.
Condition of the Pacific National Bank of
Boston.
BosroN, Nov. 29.-At meeting of the di.
rectors and principal stockholders of the Pa
ciflc bank the condition ofthe banks affairs
was explained by Examiner Needham. In
order to resume bueiness, the bank must be
able to meet liabilities of about SIS, ,00O, 900.
These include 81 900, 900 due other banks, the
remainder being divived between depositers
and holders of certificates of deposit. The