The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-07
TALENTED ADVOCATE OF THE MIND
GRE AND The DIVINITY or NATURE,

w. j. Colville, the great mata-
physical teacher in Boston, is one of
the most extraordinary men on the
planet. He does ten times the talk
ing of any clergyman and revels in
doing it. He does more than talk.
He is flood of ideas. He is always
wound up and ready for action.
His body is small, his mind large.
He is never daunted by questions
put him by his audience. These
seem to him but as spurs. His hall
(Berkeley Hall) is one of the finest
in the city. He is his own choir, his
own organist, his own pianist. He
can run every department of meet
ing, commence with an improvised
poem (the subject being given by
the audience) and end with another
quarter of an hour in length, if
he or what is behind him feels like
it. He is now but % years of age.
He has been lecturing from the age
of II. When child of > years he
says he heard poems in the air as
well as lectures on his peculiar philo-
sOphy. He is never at loss for a
text and can get one out of any
thing, from a turnip up to q planet.
Off the platform he seems rs simple
as child, but as deep as a serpent.
He will ask what may be deemed the
most silly questions, or make re-
marks of like nature. He amuses
himself by the thought and opinion
of the people about him, who size
him up in consequence as simple
ton. He is peculiar in his manner.
His peculiarly is himself-perhaps
but small part of his many selves
or sides of himself.
MIND AND MATTER.
He seems insensble to fatigue
and is invulnerable to an extreme
temperature, whether of heat or
cold. His theory that mind in all
things is superior to matter and can
master it he seems to carry out in
practice. He is an extremist in
nothing save in his advocacy of the
idea that all medicine in healing
save mind, and ones own mind at
that is unnecessary, and that even
when taken and Il cure effected the
result is more due to faith in the
drug than the drug itself. He gives
| specific mental causes for every dis
ease. When Colville is not ectur-
ing on melaph, sizes, he is giving
brilliant essays on noted characters
such as Dickens, Shakespeare, Byron,
etc. He analys SEES and goes through
n character and nature down to
the bedrock and picks out every
grain of gold in il. He is per-
petually getting up and giving bene-
fits to deserving, and sometimes I'M
deserving, chart able objects. Some
of these objects are individuals, and
some are not. He has certain
following of that class who can't
help themselves, who don't want to-,
and who are always propping them
selves up by some strong proper.
lie turns n ready ear to every tale
OF distress, and frequently turns his
purse upside down in the same
direction. He will buy new over
coat which in fortnight will be on
another mans back, while Colville
is wearing his old one. He has been
thus MIXED regularly, so that if his
purse was full on Monday the buck
skin would be empty on Wednesday.
THE CREED OF NATURE.
Though he breaches no creed, and
does preach faith unlike any.the-
ology, he attends mass quite regu-
larly. Hence the report among some
of the more violent anti-Catholic.
that he is Jesuit in disguise. lie
breaches simply the divinity OF
natural laws, and the fact tina,
through knowledge of natural laws
even greater things are coming thar
the so-called miracles of Biblica
history. He believes in the Chris
philosophy and the reality of what