Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-30
GOING TO LECTURE ANYWAY,

great deal OF harm and hurt my feelings pretty
badly at that time. went to the city editor
the next day-it was Sunday-and tried 10 get him
to correct IT, Well, he said, It was a fair report
wanted what considered a decent report ana
fair report OF my attempt to enlighten the public
on the Second Coming instead OF having it put In
such ridiculous way. 1t made fun OF me. That
laughing stock OF the whole city. We cannot
spoil that He was not going TO spoil that. he
said. Then went to Mr.. Medill, the managing
editor. i knew him very We'll He said it was a
correct report and he would not interfere. Then
went to the city editor, and after considerable
lines of correction, viii put it in wrote a
very short and pointed article, and he put it In
the next morning. That relieved me some. This
only shows how hard IL IL is TO get newspaper to
make correction. They will say whatever they
have mind TO against man, but won't correct ft
u they can avoid it. l thought would drop the
ology then, and went to work at my law business;
got a nice office and got my cards y ,and pushed
out all over the city, as / always D about any
matter, very enthusiastically / do every thing
with my Whole soul and my whole mind, and
JUST EXHAUST aYsELF
In whatever undertake. was remarkably lively
In getting business in the spring OF 1877. pre-
sumo could have made 5000 very easily. had
good luck, and clients came to me- and everything
was going well, but could not get the theology
out OF my head, and so along In May or June-I
think 1t as in May-I went out to Evanstown,
lecture On the Second Coming there 1t was a free
lecture, and had three or four hundred people,
That was a suburb OF Chicago, q place OF ten or
twelve thousand Inhabitants. The Northwestern
university is there, and 1t is a great Methodist
town; very religious people; they don't sell any
liquor there. or course they are more or less in
ser S ted I, the Second Coming got the church
siderable force, guess they prieEed up their
ears pretty lively. 1t was q new doctrine; they
nd NOT tla
it 1t kind OF upset their notion about the second
Coming. Most OF them heard me patiently.
running law Office at that time, but my mind
was running on theology and not law. They did
not interrupt me during the lecture particularly
they were quite respectful; but they did not like
my views, should say, from the way they looked
and acted and whispered. There was no violence
at at a dc Ihey thought was very cranky; there Is
thought about my views on the Second Coming,
because 1t upset their old ideas. They have been
future for the Second Coming. Hold y say, sit
occurred eighteen hundred years ago. That idea
upsets their theology, and they don't like It. As a
matter or fact never got much
MONEY OR SYMPATHY
out OF my theology, because my theology did not
MT the theology OF most people: but have stuck
70 IL like a brave man, and have sacrificed every
thing for 1t. left good law Office and led
vagabond life for several years. but did not care
Tor L said, Il am sure the Lord Is back OF me- at
least think that he Is, and will exhaust myself
on this work. 1 thought the Lord was back OF
me, because hold that have the truth on the
subject, and claim inspiration on it just as much
as the Apostle Paul did. There was no money In
It for him. He lived a vagabond life also for the
Saviour: do not think he had as much success as
dld say That my book forever settles the uueS-
ton or the Second Coming OF Christ, and the Lord
Will sometime honor the work. have no doubt
about its future. After the lecture at Evanstown
was uneasy and restless, and my mind was run
ming On theology and not on law, and 30 finally
made up my mind that would go featuring.
went UP to Racine about the 1St OF August, 1871 /
had the lecture advertised as usual and had about
one hundred people there. The minister OF the
PRESBYTERIAN church there was very clever fell
low ana gave me warm reception, and said,
Perhaps this man has new light, and il he has /
am ready to receive it, He was one OF the most
seemed to be broad enough to take in a new the
ology, and that is more than a great many OF
these other people ever could do. He seemed to be
pleased with my lecture. He said, Il studied the
question myself, and have often wondered il that
was rot the truth He came to my lecture with
an ms deacons AM friends and they were pleased
WIN my eHort. Tney came up to me and thought
L was great man In embryo, and some ladies
came up and wanted to know If had that lecture
all that sort OF talk did not make any money
on thehingy- nnrinG the two ar thrao Feare
TWAS WELL FED
and well taken care OF, but the Lord did that even
II did owe several board bills contracted at that
time. think went next to Milwaukee, and had
about the same success as at Racine. then went
to White Water, Wis, with about the same result,
and jumped from Milwaukee over to Kalamazoo,
and stopped at Chicago and got some things that
had and went down east lecturing. In Kalama-
zoo had fair house, and took up a collection,
and did not get much. They do not give much on
collections found. They are willing to get your
IDEAS, put Will not pay anything for them IL they
and g5 e11gh my rail-
Ann Arbor, and thought possibly might do well
went there with great hope, because my father
had lived there forty or fifty years before, and
had an uncle, William s. Maynard, who had died
there several years before, and thought, perhaps
the Maynard family would be OF some help to me-
Although Mrs Maynard was married to gentle
man named Wood she invited me to her house and
was very clever to me- and she and two or three Of
the audience had. Invent from there to Detroit
and tried to lecture in the Young Mems Christian
hall there. stopped at Battle Creek during that
trip and lectured there, Igotit well advertised,
but no one came. 1 always well advertised INV
lectures That was the disability labored under
had not reputation to draw then. suppose
WOULD DRAW NOW.
The lecture at Ann Arbor was failure all the
way through, and stuck to it like hero too I
then went to Detroit, and got well advertised.
and had about fifty or sixty people there. They
were quite respectful, and interested In my new
ideas OF the Second Coming; and got good news
paper report but 1t was Favored with the fact of
my arrest the night before for a board bill OF s.,
at the Leonard house, at Ann Arbor At Ann Ar
Dor the man was going to arrest me for the hall
The fact is that he agreed to furnish the hall and
the advertising, and to take his chances on the
receipts. That was the arrangement made with
him and all these people. was to do the lee
turing ana they were to do the rest The fellow
was man Of ugly disposition, and he got very
angry when ne found there was nothing to pay the
hall rent He FUSED pretty hard, and rather than
nave any IrouDie with him walked on pretty
rapidly and left hun discussing the matter In his
own mind. He wanted to know about my hotel
DILL and did net go back to about it, but made
Decline for fpSlana, and walked out of the city
on the railroad track. / stafd there until about
one O'Clock, and the fast Chicago express came
along about or O'Clock In the morning That Is
eight miles from Ann ArbOr toward Detroit I
got on the train, and the conductor came along
ana told him who was, and he said it was ali
right L told him was lecturer and didn't have
any money. I told him was lecturing on the
Second Coming. These conductors were clever
fellows, and all seemed to be interested In that
!gueSS he was christian man, and interested in
the subject He said, .An right and did not put
me on, and got to Detroit In that way. lee
tured In Detroit The result Was about the same
ARRESTED FOR BOARD BILL.
1had about fifty or sixty people and charged
ten cents admission, think, at the door, and got
In four or nve dollars. just as was leaving the
hall noticed couple OF men hanging around.
One OF them, who proved to be q detective, said:
q guess that Is the fellow, to the tall man, who
proved to be deputy sheriff from Ann Arbor
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