The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-09-04
Prof. MeGarvey Seems to Think
He is, and Gives His
History.
There is Nothing In the Bible &c
Extenuate Colonel Breckin-
ridges Awful Crime.
Lexington Transeript.l

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AT last one more preacher has been
found publicity advocate the re-eec-
ton OF Colonel, Breckenridge, and to
denounce the other preachers of this
Congressional District for opposing
his reelection on grounds of morality.
George 0. Barnes seconds the motion
of Francis Mutually. Mr.. Mullally's
case has been pretty freely discussed
in the Paris papers; let us now k,
who is George O. Barnes? 1.-The is a
man of such accuracy and consistency
in his teaching, that his judgment on
a question demands respectful COR
sideraiion at the hands of his fellow
preachers, il is time for the rest OF us
TO call a halt and to reconsider our
utterances
"Who, then, is George O. Barnes {?
When he first visited Lexington he
was accredited as presbyterian
preacher of some ability, but rather
heterodox teaching. The next time,
he had fallen out with the Presby-
terian Church be proclaimed himself
sincss, and said that before his COM
plete sanctification he had been a
hypocrite, and that all the other
preachers were still the same. Soon
after shis he commenced CARRYING
around with him bottle of oil, and
calling on the people afflicted with
any disease to come forward and let
him auoint and heal them. AT this
time he taught that any man who
would make the confession to which
he invited them, saying, 81 take Jesus
to be my Savior the best / can"
would be certain of heaven, no matter
what he might be at the time, OF how
he might live thereafter, He promised
them that he would be damned in
three or four places if that did not
save them. Still later, after these two
humbugs had played out, ne quit
amounting with oil, and said that every
man must make his confession to God
alone-that he would take their con-
LESSONS no longer. Meantime, he
carried around with him, over the
mountains and everywhere, little
organ, and declared that amid all its
jolts the Lord by special providence
kept it in tune. He laid aside his
spectacles, and said the Lord would
preserve his eyesight SO that he could
see without them. This experiment
did not last loug. He proclaimed that
he then had faith enough to heal the
sick, and that he would soon have
enough to raise the dead.
After some years of very noted
career in Kentucky, he went to India;
and while there he had revelation
from the Lord to the effect that the
English people are the ten lost
tribes of Israel, and that Queen Vic
toria is the head of the true church.
He Immediately obtained member
ship in the Episcopal church, bur that
church, like the Presbyterian, refu ed
to endorse his haresies by putting
him into the ministry.
ION his return from India he preach
ed that "God is love and nothing |
else" He denounced his old-time
doctrine that there is an eternal hell
said that hell was a temporary place
in which sinners would have another
chance, and that when he died he
was going there to preach to them.
He taught that the devil causes all
the trouble in the world, all untimely |
frosts, all cyclones and all untimely /
rain. When he was preaching at
Woodland, and a rain cloud came up.
he cried out that the devil was bring
ing that rain to break up his audience
His glory had now departed. He
could no longer obtain and hold the
vast audiences that once assembled to
hear him, and he soon left to make
his home OH a little island off the coast
of Florida. What evil wind it is that
has blown him back to his old stamp
ing-ground is not explained in the
papers; but we may rest easy under
the knowledge that his power for evil,
once very great in Kentucky, has
come to naught. With such "com
edy of errors" marking his past ca
reer, when he stands up in Lexington
to tell the people that all of the sane
preachers whom they have selected
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