The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-11-30

Manager OF the Western Union Telegraph
Company, and also the Manager OF tn
Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company
, The Atlantic & Pacific was Just starting u
the time, and It's manager WAS IN actlvI
young fellow who. wanted to get business
! said proposed to duplicate the New Yorl
Herald dispatches, and he thought 1t an i'm
mense thing, and it was, lwrote to Jamel
Gordon Bennett about the dispatches
think told him II he helped me ont in thu
matter would consider the Herald suit a
an end.
Question-After you gave up newspaper
enterprise in Chicago what did you next doi
AnSwer-That brought me down to the
winter and spring Of 1876, tried to pick
up my law business again, which had neg
lected; but law business was scarce, and
found It tditIiCult 10 get any. Then went
out to your place in Wisconsin. worked
around the house, studied theology and
the New Testament, read the papers, soap
ed trees and all that kind OF thing, In Oc-
tober OF 1875 was in Chicago, Duringthe
Moody and Sankey meetings | attended
prayer meetings and services regularly,
day and night, during the three months
that Moody was there-from October to
January. During all that time was with
Moody, and bore an active part, ! was IN
usher, and helped around in q general
way. spoke atprayer meetings frequent
ly, Some time in November, during the
Moody work, heard Dr. Kittridge, OF Chi
cago, 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, rs 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
soon appear, and that idea has per-
Yaded the people'sminds ever since. That
set my brain whirling, and began to In
yestigate II, | went to work in the Chicago
Public Library, and dug out every lecture
on the Second Coming" AS result Of
that Investigation went to work k and
wrote my lecture. The idea OF that lecture
is briefly this; That the second coming Of
Christ occurred on the destruction OF Jeru-
salem, In u cloud, directly over Jerusalem.
That 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 in supposing
that the second coming OF Christ will be in
the future. That Is tho proposition on
which my lecture was written, and that
was the result OF three or four years inyes-
tigation on that subject,
The witness then went on 10 relate his
various failures in delivering his lectures
In Chicago, Evansville, Racine, kalama-
zoo, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ypsilantl, Toledo,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Washington, Rochester,
Syracuse, Albany, Troyand elsewhere. He
frequently laughed Us he repeated some OF
the humorous incidents OF his failures.
Various times he was put off the railroad
cars for not paying his fare, and arrested
for not paying his board bills At other
times he grew excited in the assertion that
in all he did he was "like Saint Paul, en-.
gagged in the services Of God and that God
was therefore responsiblefor his board bills.
On this latter point he said; II did not
give up lcctnring because of my repeated
failures. Istuck TO my work; my idea was
that was working for the Lord, and |
would do my duty and let him take care OF
me rs He felt disposed, | went into the
whole business to serve the Lord and not to
make money; success or failure was moth
ing to me. | considered II the Lords
affair, and that my duty was to
continue with my work. Paul had
no success because he had no new
ideas on theology. ! kept thinking Of Paul
all the time, and he stuck to his theology
oil the time. On my way from Baltimore
to Washington l avoided the conductor,
who had ordered me to get oil at the Relay
House, and so managed to get on to Wash
ington. The strangest thing about It was,
that after had changed my seat man
came along and said to me, "My friend,
are you going to Washington" | said yes.
He said, "Would you like good board.
ing.hOuse" said yes, and he said he
could take TO me to one. Now, had been
praying that could get clearinghouse,
as did not want TO so to u hotel and had
no sooner got the prayer put than this man
came along and was Just as free and easy
with me as II he had known me for twenty
years. Now, that ! call Providence. /
have had hundreds OF that kind OF expert
enCes where direct answer to my prayer
has befriended Inc.
s. While the prisoner was giving his testi-
mony he was watched most attentively by
all the 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
II was in consequence of one oil those
signs that some ten minutes before the
usual time for adjournment, the court, ut
the instance Of the District Attorney, nd
| iOurncd.