The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-11-07


At every meeting that he holds
more of his eccentricities, to put II
mildly, appear. Since his last
seance, week ago last Saturday.
he has been unable to obtain any
hall to speak in. But he made
arrangements yesterday to have
the use of Arion hall for this week,
and he again held services last
evening.
a larger number of people were
present than have attended before,
and, whether owing to this fact or
not, the spiritualist was even more
pronounced in his vagaries than
ever. As fitting end to such a
service the audience was RECALLED
by two regular music hall songs
songs that one hears in variety
theatre in San Francisco and the
east-such as a pair of serio-comics
sing to the accompaniment of a
wheezy cornet and a squeaky vio-
lin.
He started his evening with
text taken from the New Tesla
ment. He took text, but that is
all he did with it. He never re-
ferred to it again in the slightest
way, and his whole discourse, if
such rambling talk could be
called by such name, was simply
a mass of vituperation against the
newspapers and people of Homo
lulu. The man is very wroth to
think that his character has been
shown up to the people of the ISL
ands, and he cannot help venting
his spleen on whomever he is talk
ing to, be it in church or out.
Before Mr.. Rowland began his
services, he sang a few songs, and
the sound of his voice, which is a
very sweet one, brought quite a
member of natives in from the
street. At the close of his meeting,
he asked all those who had en-
loved the service to stand up. One
and all did so, and certainly they
did enjoy it, if the frequent laugh
ing of the majority of the audience
was any test.
Of course, he introduced his
psychometric reading. That is his
profession. and by that he makes
his living. As a precursor to this
little work of his, he told of an ex-
perience he had had at Waikiki a
few DAYS ago. He said he had
been in bathing, and. though he
had his back turned to the sea, yet
he saw a man who was in the
water drop his glasses into the sea.
He told him of it, but the man
claimed it was not so. But when
he came ashore the glasses were |
missing.
When the "Rev." had finished |
the above instructive tale, he |
asked the man, who was
present, if what he had said |
was so. "Not at all" said the |
victim of the psychrometrio art. !
"The glasses were just where they |
were when l went into the water"
But this did not please Rowland |
at all.
a few extracts from his sermon"
are printed below. They form the
principal burden of his discourse: !
IF there is anything l love to do |
it is to battle the devil. l love to
look him in the face and say
Devil, I am on to you l have met
you before and you can't bluff
me-
''You people watch my reading
from the bible and see if l read
Alright. God doesn't clip his Bible
from some damnable newspaper"
'The gospel has been crushed in
this town since | came here; but
all the people who have helped to
crush me shall be crushed by the
Lord in his wrath"
Everyone is against me here.
If Christ himself should come to
this God-forsaken town, he would
be driven out of it by these So
called Christian people. l have
come to a supposed Christian land,
and there are no Christians in it,
except a few poor natives"
81 have received a much more
cordial welcome from the poor
sailors on the docks than from the
Christian people here. The first
Sunday l was in town l went to a
and was given the second
eat from the front door. l didn't
20 again"
u do not need to get living !
his way. Ny voice, my beautiful
-oice, will pay me magnifcently if :
should return to the stage. But |