The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-08-30
NJ. L. JOHNS THEORIES,
HE HAS FOUND A NEW FIELD IN
THE BIBLE
Some Marvellous Things That He ia
Able to DO-Dr. Dalton and Others
Astonished-WilI Lecture,

A man who promises to startle the
| entire world, destroy agnosticism and
atheism and give the scientific and
| philosophical world a shock for which
| it will be entirely unprepared, was in
Winston Saturday. He is an English
| nan and his name is M. l.. Johns, a
| travelling man from New York.
Mr.. Johns theories are beautiful
and logical TO the extent in which he
is willing to reveal them: When call
ed upon he does not hesitate to dem
onstrate by actual figures what lie
claims. He gave examples of his new
discovery" to number of citizens
this morning, among the number be-
ing DR.. ID. n. Dalton, county phySi-
clan, w. A. Blair ana several others.
They were all aStOniShed and Mr.
Johns received several testimonials on
the accuracy of his theories.
This wonderful man, according to
his own statements, CLEANED every bit
of his knowledge from the Bible, and
in the passages of holy writ found the
secrets which he claims to be in pos
session of and discovered reaSonings
and causes and effects which have
hitherto not yielded to the inveStiga-
tionS of just as ardent students. He
has in his possession chart of each
month Of the twelve, filed with fig
ures arranged In peculiar diversity,
and it is from this that he works out
the predestinies of his feliowman,
when placed in possession of the
smallest data.
To give Mr.. Johns the date of your
birth is just like handing him a care-
fully written diary, and it is with the
most skilful ease that he is able to aD-
prOXimate the exact time of the death
of d person already dead upon being
told the date of the persons birth and
the last birthday of that person. This,
of course, narrows the calculation
down to less than twelve months, but
the experiment is just the same, and
it isorarely ever that he misses in
these. Today he gave accurately the
death of persons whose relatives gave
the required data.
When in Charlotte last February
Mr.. Johns told prominent citizen
that he would be seriously i'll in May.
The gentleman, of course, placed no
confidence in the statement, but dur
ing the month named he was taken
with typhoid fever and came very
near dying.
Mr.. Johns tries his system, for his
own benefit, in every city he visits.
He has not as yet, as he himself ad-
mits. perfected it, but is making rap
id advances every day. He only took
up his ''experiment" about five
months ago.
In company with w. A. Blair and
other citizens, Prof. Johns visited the
Salem cemetery today and calculated
many deaths, and make an average
of ten out of twelve. In these calcu-
latiOns-aS it would be natural to as
sumo he would dOsO-he does not take
into consideration sudden deaths, and
excuse any failures by exclaimiug that
the death was sudden, but, on the
other hand, whether the death be by
suicide or otherwise, his calculations
are just as unerring.
MIR. Johns was careful to request
The SENTINEL representative to
keep out of print what he exposed as
links into this new theory, as he is
preparing a series of lectures which
will be printed in book form.