Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-12-07

THE ASSASSIN On IHEOLoui.
A.-That brought me down to the
yriter and spring of 1876. l tried to
pick ND the law business again, which
/ had neglected, but law bu siness was
scarce and ] found it hard to get any.
Then | went out to your pl ace, in Wis
consin | walked around the house,
studied theology and the new Testa-
ment, read the papers, soaped the trees,
and all that kind of thing. In October
1876, was in Chicago during the
Moody and Sankey meetings. | at
tended the prayer meetings and servl-
ces regularly day and night during
three months Moody was there from
October to January. During all that
time was with Moody, and bore an
active part. l was usher, and help
ed around in a general way. Spoke at
prayermeetings frequently. Some time
in November, during the Moody work.
heard DR.. Kittridge, of Chicago, pas
tor of the Third Presbyterian church,
say in reference to the text: If L WILL
he (meaning john tarry till l come,
what is that to thee, brethren | have
to confess as man Of God that l do
not know what that means AT that
time there was much expectation In
the pubIec mind that the Savior might
soon appear, and that idea has prevail
ed the peoples minds ever since
That set my brain whirling, and l be-
gan to investigate it. | went to work
in the Chicago public library, and
dug out my lecture on the second COM
ing As the result of that investlga-
ton I went to work and wrote my lee
ture. The idea of that lecture is brief
ly this: That the second coming OF
Christ occurred on the destruction OF
Jerusalem, in clouds directly over Je=
rusalem. That was an event in the
spiritual world and that destruction OF
Jerusalem was the outward sign OF his
coming. l hold that for all these eight
teen centuries the churches have all
been in error in sapposing the second
coming of Christ will be in the future.
That is the proposition on which my
lecture was written, and that was the
result of three or four years investlga-
tion on that subject.
HIS LEeTURING EXPERIENCE
The witness then went on to re ate
his various failures in delivering his
lecture in Chicago, Evanston, Racine,
Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, Detroit,
Ypsilanti, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo,
Washington, Rochester, Syracuse, AL
bany, Troy and elsewhere. He fire.
quently laughed as he repeated some
of the humorous incidents OF bis fall
ures. Various times he was put of
the railroad cars for not paying his fare,
and arrested for not paying bis board
bills. At other times he grew excited
in his assertion that in all he did he
was like Saint Paul engaged in the
service of God, and that God was
therefore responsible for bis board
bills On this latter he said: L did
not give up lecturing because of my
repeate failures. / stuck to my work.
NV idea was, as | was working for
the Lord, would do my duty and let
Him take care of me as he felt disposed.
[ went into the whole business to serve
the Lord, not to make money. Sue
cess or failures was nothing to me. L
considered that the Lords affair My
duy 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 theology all the time. On my
way from Baltimore to Washington l
avoided the conductor who had order
ed me to go off at the Relay House,
and so managed to get on to Wash
ington. The strangcst thing about it
was that after | had changed my seat
q man came along and said to me, My
friend, are you going to Washington =
| said, Yes He said, Would you
like good boarding house? | said,
Yes and he said he could take me to
one. Now | had been praying that |
could get a clearinghouse, as | did
not want to go to hotel, and | had
no sooner got the prayer out than this
mar came along and was just as free
and easy with me as if he had known
me twenty years. Now. that ! call
providence. | have had hundreds of
that kind of experiences, where a di-
rect answer to prayer has befriended
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.
AT times he showed his exhaustion by
lowering his voice, and it was in con-
sequence of one of those signs that,
some ten minutes before the usual time
of adjournment, the Court at the in
STAGE of this District Attorney, ad-
journed.
HE ADIEREs TO THE IDEA THAT HE WAS
INSPIRED TO REMOVE GARFIELD,
AND THE DEITY ALONE
Is RESPONSIBLE
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Nov. 80.
-Guiteau's recital yesterday of his
varied experience as religious tramp
and dead beat, seems 10 have whetted
interest in the case, for despite the
rain the crowd was us great as yester-
day. Upon the opening of court Gui-
teau was taken directly to the witness
box.
Witness was asked by Mr.. Scovile
to indentify some papers The first
shown him was hand-bill announcing
lecture at Evanston, Ills Yes
said Guiteau. turning it around to the
jury, and with and air of satisfaction,
that was the announcement of my
lecture Shall | read it p
Mr.. Scoville-,No, will put these
papers in evidence.
Guiteau then gave his ideas con-
cerning the religious tenets of the
Oneida Community. Witness con-
tinued to say 1868 Instead OF 1878, and,
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