The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-11-08
"OAHsPE."
A Sandy Whiskered Now Yorker Gets Up
q New Bible and Religion.

q New Bible and Religion.
The Tribune says: Six reporters gath
cred in the parloro of No. 128 West Thirty
four street, at the invitation of J. b.
Newbrough, who had ipromised to give
then and there to the world a new re-
ligion and, a new bible. There were
Newbrough, a short, ~jolly-looking old
man, who introduced himself as "the
little gentleman" a white-haired person
with white moustache and gold specta-
cles, of diminutive stature, and three
other men whose names and object in
being there were as mysterious as the
new religion about to-be promulgated.
The elittle gentleman" Mr.. Newbrough
introduced as Thomas A. M. Ward, "a
distinguished Orientalist,' and the gen.
tIeman with silver pin and gold-rimmed
glasses as DR.. B. L. Cetlinski, a "Pole
andgscholar.n
Each reporter having been presented
with a copy of "Oahspe, the New
Bible" Mr.. Newbrough rose to address
the gathering. He is q dentist by occu-
patton, and is a firm believer in spiritu-
alism. He is a tall, slim man with
sandy side whlskers, and small eyes, set
under heavy, ov%erhanging eyebrows.
His straight, long hair fell in disorder
over his forehead as he clutched a roll
of manuscript in his slim fingers and
gave the history of the birth of the
"Oahspe." He said that he was pos
sessed of a peculiar faculty of using his
hands without using his mind, and that
the "Oahspe" was written by him on a
typewriter in the morning by the bright
light, the time when Gabrielis popularity
supposed to blow his horn. He worked
at it each morning fifteen Or twenty
minutes for the space of one year, lack
ing a few weeks. During the time that
he was manipulating the typewriter he
did not know what he was writing, and
a bright lightEemanated from his hands.
When the book was finished contribu-
tons ofmoney for it's publication began
to pour in from people that he had never
heard of. A stock company was finally
formed of even persons, all living in
this city exceptsone, which established
a printing Office at No. ISL West Twen-
ty-ninth street, and published the book.
The capital stock Of this company was
100000 but it had not all been called in.
Mr.. Newbrough said that he was one
of the company, but he refused to state
who the other members were. Three
thousand copies of "Oahspe" had been
printed from plates. The work was a
summary of all the religions that ever
existed, and gave the true principles of
them all. Religion had never before
been made practical, but it had been
now. In short there is no God but
God" and Newbrough was his prophet.
MI. Ward and DR.. Cetlmski then
made short speeches, giving a good deal
of information about everything except
"Oahspe." The book, which was pre-
sented to the reporters, was conglom-
GRAFTON of heterogeneous ideas. The
English was partly that of the King
James translation of the bible and partly
such as is used in every day converse
ton. It was garnished by cuts of night
mare, indigestion sort, several of which
looked like the illustrations in a school
astronomy gone wild. Several passages
very like those to be found in other
works, such as 1.-THE pen is mightier
than the sword" were pointed out to
Mr.. Newbrough, but he explained it by
saying that the spirits used the words
best calculated to express what they
wanted to say, and therefore might with
propriety quote largely from the best
authors.