Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-19
WuEEIINCl w VA FRIDAY
FOUNDING A NEW FAITH.
wilson's Fifty. Day Fast Preliminary
10 That work.

ST. LOUIS, January 1S.-Professor Wilson
has now been fasting nearly ten days, and
confidently declares that he will complete
his fifty days of abstinence from food. For
the first two days he did not drink water,
but since then he has drank small quaint.
ties, more, he says, to moisten his lips and
throat than to assuage thirst. A reporter
who called at No. 3l3 North Third street
found the Professor quartered in a COM
Portable room, heated by stove, and furn.
ished with a bed lounge, and plentiful
supply of chairs. Wilson was dressed and
sitting up, and had been sitting up nearly
all day. When the reporter called there
were present NJ. F. w. Morrison, Charles
Bennett, Frank Blood, Paul Andrew Heyer-
void, and II. c. Fisher, the first four OF
whom were watching the faster by turns,
to see that the conditions are properly OBJ
served,
Wilson's Appearance
was net that of man who had not taken
food in ten days. His face was by no
means haggard, but had the full, healthy
glow OF person who had been taking his
meals with extreme punctuality. His eye
was clear and bright, and there seemed to
be neither mental nor physical uneasiness
about him. Being asked if he did not feel
hungry, he said it might sound strange,
but from the time he began his fast, he had
never for moment been annoyed by the
pangs of unsatisfled hunger. The spirit
acting had assured him that he had no ap-
petite to speak Of during the fifth day, and
thus far his mouth had not watered in
longings for apple dumplings and stuffed
turkey. He had suffered no pains what.
ever, and scarcely believed that he had fall
en- away any. He had not weighed before
beginning the fast, but would on Monday
have a pair of scales brought to the room,
so that he might take note from time to
time of any decrease OF weight that might
occur. He said that he had not taken
Stimulant of Any Kind
and would not do 80. Neither would he
take medicine, as Tanner had done, but
would leave everything to the sustaining
powers OF nature. The professor remarked
that ia the falling away OF flesh which
would doubtless ensue, he expected that
his gums would shrink so that his teeth
would drop out, as had been the case with
Tanner, and he would, therefore, prepare
himself to have a set of artificial teeth
made. He wouldn't care for this, as his
natural teeth were bad anyhow.
Thus far, Wilson has spent half the time
in bed, and says he has slept well, his
slumbers being sound and dreamless. In
a conversation with a reporter. he gave in
a rambling sort OF way, the object of his
fast, and his plans for the future. The
final purpose was to found secret society
fashioned somewhat after Masonery
the members of which would be
the chosen" few. This society
would know and teach the truth as
given to it by the Creator" His frs
purpose, however, was to raise a large
amount of money, with which tract o.
cheap land would be bought and com
munity founded thereon. The members o
this community would constitute the
society. As to how the money was to bt
raised the professor could not speak, bu
the Creator" would speedily find means
of putting all the necessary cash in hi
hands.
In referring TO his treatment by the peo
pie Mr.. Wilson said the spiritualists haC
denounced him because he did not believe
ia spiritualism. Mr.. TuCkett had called
him "the exploded prophet" for this rea
son. He did not believe in spiritualism
or any such humbug as that. He wa
simply acting under the inspiration OF al
All.powerful Being, who had commanded
him to found new faith, and the fifty
days fast was preliminary to that work.