The Washington critic., 1890-02-27
THE LORD S INSTRUMENT.
Mr.. Keeler and the wheel He Claim
to Have Discovered

to Have Discovered.
81 believe that the Lord has
made me the instrument through
which to reveal one OF His
mysteries. said Mr.. O. p. Keelcr,
an old man who has made Washington
his home for the past four years, the
other day in telling of a wonderful dis
covery he claims to have made. MIR.
Kccler'livc on + street near Seventh,
and has fondness for invention.
"The mystery | refer to-" he con
tinued, "is the wheel described in the
first and tenth chapters of Ezekiel,
where he gives an account of the Wis
ion revealed TO him. Many persons
have supposed that the wheel men
toned there was the providence of
God, but this is a mistake. and think
that have discovered the true secret of
the wheel which is really new self
creating power"
To realize Just what it is that Mr..
Keeler claims to have discovered some
verses descriptive of the wheel are given
from the Bible for the benefit of the
many persons not familiar with that
interesting book. Ezekiel thus describes
them:
Now as beheld the living creatures,
behold one wheel upon the earth by the
living creatures with his four faces.
The appearance of the wheels and
their work was like unto the color of a
beryl, and they four had one likeness,
and their appearance and their work
was it were wheel in the middle of a
wheel.
when they went, they went upon
their four sides; and they turned not
when they went.
LAS for their rings they were so high
that they were dreadful; and their
rings were full of eyes round about them
four.
And when the living creatures went
the wheels went by them, and when
the living creatures were lifted up from
the earth the wheels were lifted up.
"Whithersoever the spirit was TO go,
they went, thithcr was their spirit to go
and the wheels were lifted up over
against them, for the spirit of the living
creature was in the wheels.
These curious wheels have given a
good deal of trouble to Biblical com
mentators, and not unnaturallv. Mr..
Keeler's statements that he had solved
| with derision. He has no drawings of
bis discovery or invention, but says that
they move without revolving. and that
lever is the only bit of mechanism ap
parent about them.
"NIy statements have always been re
ceived with derision and | have been
called insane said NIT. Keeler, "but
| the Lord has now revealed to me
| as witness another machine
of considerable importance. to
show that / am not mistaken
regarding the wheel. This new dis
covery is washing machine, and | be
| lieve that it is the only one among the
hundred invented that will work salts
factorily. The Lord has made
me an instrument in His
hand to set forth the principles
on which a good washing machine NAV
be made, and it will prove that. He
has also revealed to me the pattern OF
EZekiel's self generating motive
power"
Mr.. Keeler feels that 1t will be bis
| job TO convert the world to belief il
his wonderful wheel but he is hopefu
that the washing. machine will dt
it. He is now II years old anC
comes from western New York
where he has worked on the Erie Canal
taught school, been carpenter, ant
turned his hand to other avocations. 60
have been q jack of all trades and maste
of none" he puts ii, "and have com
out poorly However. hope the whee
and the machine will make my for
tune"