Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-01
A NEW MILLENNIUM.

NEW MILLENNIUM.
The keynote Of the entire work seems to be
struck In the following passage, taken from the
opening Chapter
Behold. the seventh lie at hand. Thy Creator
maneth thy change from c.rnivorous man Of conten-
Of the Beast (Brahman, Buddhist, Christian and Mo-
upon sA Thy hs BE- dsbanaea Rna
from this time forth whoever desireth thou
Creator NetSer shall. thou have amy God nor Lord.
R Son but eS thy Ge5o s e
unto ne own creating And to as many as may sera-
Covenants np 1ae ~ the
OF My kingdom on earth.
A faithful examination of the work as a whole
shows that it is opposed to all creeds and sys-
tens OF religion, but that it is mainly an elabo-
rate argument in favor Of vegetarianism. and
every other ism by means of which animalism
may be eliminated from human nature.
DIR. NEWBR0UGH, DENTIST AND REvELATOR."
The author OF this peculiar book is DR.. New
brough, dentist, of this city. 1t was natural
that an interviewer should seek out the author
of SO remarkable production. DR.. Newbrough
is tall. well built man. OF over six feet. His
head, his face particularly. reminded us much of
that of Gen. Joseph Hooker. His manner is
calm, placid, gentle. His hand Is coda char
acteristic to which he himself calls attention,
and which he believes to he related to its pecu-
liar power of independent action. He is about
55 years of age. and is a native of Ashland. Ohio
He learned his business at Cleveland. He was
never attached to any church organization. In
early manhood he drifted into infidelity. but he
had always a thirsting eagerness after a knowl-
edge Of his Maker, and later, thought he found
something in spiritualism. The conduct of the
spiritualists did not satisfy him. Too many Of
them went astray. The result was that he sep
arated from them. For the last eight or ten
years he has been living. he says, Gin covenant
relationship with his God" During that period
he has abstained from all animal food and from
all Intoxicating beverages; and his desire has
been to live to and for his Heavenly Father.
He takes great interest in the education of the
young, and he is personally identified with a
kindergarten for young orphan boys and girls
in Brooklyn.
REVELATION ON TYPEWRITER.
The book, :" said the Doctor, ''was begun and
finished inside Of two years-twO years less two
weeks. 1t was composed and put ON paper in
half-hour spells every morning, Immediately or
soon after sunrise. with the use of typewriter"
1t is claimed by the Doctor that he is personally
irresponsible for the book; that he wrote as he
was commanded and what he was commanded
He was simply the instrument, and his hands.
he says seemed to act Of their own accord, and
as If independent of any mental vUlitiOn on his
part. At the close Of the halt hour the commu-
nication ceased, and morning after morning he
put away the sheets without examination until
the end of the above mentioned period. At the
end OF two years, all but two weeks, the COM
munication ceased altogether and he was COM
manded to collect the sheets and make book
and give it to the world. He did not know he
said, what he had written till he began to pre-
pare the work for the press.
HIS GREAT SURPRISE.
He was astOnished at his own work. He finds
himself in the very peculiar position Of coming
into contact with names and facts and state
ments and opinions for the first time in the
pages of his own book. People call to ask him
OH
gods and goddesses; and he can give them no
information. He can only refer them to the
book itself. Learned men call to compliment
him On his knowledge of Sanscrit and on his
profound acquaintance with, as well as the new
light he has thrown on. cosmogOny and astrOl-
Ogy; but he knows as little of Sanscrit as he
knows Of Latin and Greek, which is nothing at
all, and he claims to have never made a study OF
cosmogOny or astrOlOgy. In the new Bible,
"Oahspe," the stories of Abraham, of Moses OF
Jesus, are told with variations. and there are
special points in the variations, points which
seem to have been made with purpose and for
the sake of harmony in the general structure OF
the work. Ishmael. for example, is not the son
of Abraham. and the scriptural style of the
work is conspicuous features but the Doctor
processes to have been made aware of these diff.
| ferences in the variations since "0ahspe" was
completed: and he admits that until recent years
he had been comparatively Ignorant of the Bible
| and its contents.
QUEER THINGS.
There are many things in the book, however
which the statement about the typewriter does
not explain. There are prepOsterous allegOrica
pictures, and a glossary of terms with alleged
corresponding hierOglyphics of the sign writing
| class. 1t would seem from these as though the
first idea was to put the book forth as transa-
ton of plates after the manner of Joe Smith
and his "Book of Mormon" but that this plan
was abandoned, although, for the sake of mys-
tification, the herOglyphic nonsense was re-
tanned. DR.. NewbrOugh does not let the world
candidly into the extent of the assistance he
received in getting up his book and publish
ing it.
The whole affair suggests that we shall soon
hear of an Oahspian sect, and then the mystery
will resolve itself into small dimensions as the
cOpartners of the dentist come forward.
NAVVEN DREVSUNUA