The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-11
BOTH HAVE WHEELS
1ntere sting Invention Of Colorea
Bible Student.
Tfmepiece by Whose Use Men ana
Women May Be Guided Unto
Heavenly Rest-A Great
Thing for FaddiSts.

DR.. Vokey Chamberlain is not only Al
Interesting Biblical student, but he
thinks that he has made discovery
whereby men may SO arrange Their
lives according to their timepieces that
they will not only be punctual at the
dinner table, bat may also be guided by
their watches unto heavenly rest.
There is nothing irreverent about DR..
Volsev Chamberlain or about his treat
n,ent of the subject. He is a colored
Methodist preacher, with an amazing
memory of the language of the New and
the Old Testament, and a profound be-
lief in the Apocalypse. In the twenty
first chapter of the Apocalypse he has
found instruction for the building of
watch which, properly observed. will,
.he thinks, keep its possessor in the
straight and narrow path better than
any sermon ever preached by man.
DR.. Chamberlain brought a sample
timepiece with him to the New York
Sun Office to explain it. He also had
several charts AID maps which are for
the use of adopts The full meaning Of
the face of his clock can be learned, the
doctor says, by ten years of careful
study.
Without extensive illustrations 1t
might be confusing to attempt full
explanation of the ground plan of the
watch Of life, but this much may be
said: The ho%s remain twelve, and
they are representative of the twelve
foundations of the wall of the New
I
thereof. As each hour mark is jeweled
to correspond with n foundation stone,
there is brave display of emerald,
sardonyx, amethyst and the other nine,
and of pearls, one at each hour, repre-
senting the gates.
The inventor has departed from the
customary divisions of time in dealing
with the minute marks, as instead of
having so he has -, for the sufficient
reason, as he explains, that twice ~ is
IA, and that was the number of the
cubits IN the measure of the wall, the
measure of a man, which is an angel.
These - minute marks on the face Of
the watch or lite are important.
although, until you have studied it ten.
wears, trifie uncertain. According to
the inventor the minute hand VIII at
any time direct the owner of watch
sf life how to answer, what to do. and
where TO go. This was not made en-
tirely plain by the inventor, but he did
give this demonstration: The reporter
asked him why he had come to the Sun
office, and he said, seeing by his clock
that the hands indicated 42-72ds past 3
o'clock: That is a."
He produced Bible, turned to the
Gospel of st. Matthew, '. ~, and read:
''Give to him that asketh of thee, and
from him that would borrow of thee
turn not away"
The inventor said he had been asked
to come to the Sun Office by an admir-
ing friend. Just how the book and
Chapter of the reference was indicated
bv the clock hands he did not explain.
Perhaps IL one did not know the Bible
as well as the inventor of the watch Of
life, one might not always be certain
of instruction.
The face of the inventors clock is
further ornamented by number of
symbolical illustrations, which denote
highly interesting and sometimes terri
fving things. If the hands OF watch of
lie happen to stop at certain hours a
vast meaning is unfolded to the under
standing of the adept, and there are
some hours. or gates, where, if the
hands stop, the watch owner may as
well give up all hope. An understand
ing of this would induce regularity and
orderliness; one would never neglect to
wind up his watch and would always
keep it in order and clean.
The inventors charts are even more
svmboliStic. Some of the decorations
are of familiar scenes, rs one which
shows Wall street, with Trinity church
in the distance. When asked the mean
of this the inventor replied:
IF the Bridegroom should go into
Wall street and l should appear before
that minute. lie might declare me to be
an infdel, but my duty would be 10
love Him none the less"
Anyone tired OF Ibscn and Maeter-
Enclz and having ten years to spare,
might go further into this subject with
interest, If not profit. DR.. Nollcv Cham
berlain lives at 249 West Twentieth
street, New York.
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