The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1881-12-08
Gulteau,s own Accouns of HHzmsele.g q

using patronage OF the lfl0uf1P. He StlQ
.gested it to some first-class rleWspape
men and they said it was brilliant ide
and that it was feasible. fsI consulted sey
eral parties about it and they all thought
a grand scheme, but would not put none
into it; so it fell through. Amon
others. [ applied to MI. Adams, presiden
of the Second National Bank of Freeport
supposed to be worth half a million dollars
| told him [ would make him Governor Q
Illinois; and he said he did not want t,
be Governor. He had been State Senate
and was a man Of reputation and characte
but did not pan out very well after my i'll
tervieW with him. He did not have any
political aspirations. I counted to get hole
Of those fellows who had both money
and aspirations. They were the kind O
fellows to help me. Adams did not seen
tocare anything about being Governor
He was a man about sixty years Of age
and he preferred his old simple way o.
living and did not care to go into politics
| also consulted my old friend Charlie
Reed, on the matter. | believe ho put 50;
into it, which he has not got back YET
(laughing). [ went into theology after that
and that was worse than the newspaper
business. The idea Of publishing the New
York Herald simultaneously in Chicago
was part OF the Inter- Ocean scheme.
looked about the building and presses and
[ consulted the manager Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company and also the
manager of the Atlantic & Pacific Tele-
graph Company. The Atlantic & Pacific
was just starting at that time and its man
! ager who was an active fellow, also want
ed to get business. said I proposed to
duplicate the New York Herald dispatches
and he thought it an immense thing, and
Bennett about the dispatches. Think !
told him il he helped me out III the matter
I would consider the Herald suit az an
end"
"After you gave up the newspaper en-
terprise in Chicago, what did you do?''
'That brought me down to the winter
and spring Of rs. I tried to pick up the
law business again which had neglected,
but the law business was scarce and I
found it hard to get any. Then / went out
to your place in Wisconsin, / worked
around the house, studied theology and
the New Testament, read the papers and
soaped the trees and that kind Of thing.
ssIn October, 1876, was III Chicago dur
ing Moody and Sankey's meetings. / at
tended prayer meetings and services regu-
larly day and night during the three
months Moody was e1ere-fron October
to January. During all that time [ was
with Moody and bore al active part. |
was assisting and helped around ina gem
eral way. Ispoke at prayer meetings FREE
quently. Some time III November, during
the Moody work, / heard Kittridge, of
Chicago, pastor Of the Third Presbyterian
Church, say in reference TO the text, If
will that he (meaning john 'tarry till
come, what is that to thee?' Brethren, /
have to confess, as a man Of God, that |
know not what that means. At that time
there was much expectation in the public
mind that the Savior might soon appear,
and the idea has peryaded the peoples
minds ever since. That set my brain
Whirling, and began investigating it. /
went to work in the Chicago Public Libra
ry and dug out
MY LECTURE ON THE SECOND COMING
as a result Of that investigation. / went
to work and wrote my lecture. MY idea
Of that lecture is simply this: That the
second coming Of Christ occurred on the
destruction Of Jerusalem in the clouds di-
rectly over Jerusalem. That it was in ev-
cry spirit world and that the destruction of
Jerusalem was the outward sign of his
coming. hold that for all these eighteen
centuries the churches have all been in er-
ror in supposing the second coming of
Christ to be in the future. That is the |
ON which my lecture was writ
ten and that was the result of three or four
years Of investigation on that subject
The witness then related his various fail
ures in delivering his lectures III Chicago,
Jackson, Racine, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, |
Y Ypsilanta, Toledo, and Buffalo; at Wash
ington, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Troy |
and elsewhere. He frequently laughed as
be repeated some Of the humorous Incl
dents of his failures.
WASHINGTON, November 3o.-Guitean
continued his testimony as follows: At va
rious times he was put off railroad trains
for not paying his fare and arrested for not
paying his board bills. At other times he
grew excited il claiming that il al he did |
he was like Paul, engaged in the service Of
The Lord, and that God was responsible for
lis board bills. On this latter point he
said:
4 did not.give up Ieeturing because Of
my repeated failures. stuck to my work;
NY idea was that as was working for the I
Lord would do my duty and let him take
care of me as He felt disposed. [ Nen5in-
to that whole business to serve the Lord
not to make money. Success or failure
was all the same to me, considered that /
he Lord 5 affair; my duty was to continue
with my work Paul had no success be
cause he had noideas On theology / kept /
thinking Of Paul all the time and how he
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