The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-14
ABOUT THE GHOS1[Y WORLD
lilies WALLACE, THE Sflhli
AL1sT. LECTURED THEREON
LAST NIGHT.
UP At TIE BOARD OF TRADE HALL
There Was Liberal Number OF 'he
Faithful in observation-disclosures
Received From the Other World
BY Members of the Audience.
CFrom Sundays Daily.)

ist held forth at the Board of Trade hall
TO A fair audience of the believers OF the
faith. and some few who had come there
as lockers on in Vienna. The lecturer
appeared on the rostrum shortly after
$50. and opened his lecture by saying
that he made it a rule never to bore MS
audiences with lengthy talk about HIM
self or his work, but devoted more time TO
the communication of messages from the
spirit world in the shape of messages from
dead friends and relatives. lie impress
ed upon his hearers the fact that if those
who applied to him for messages from the
other world were not in perfect harmony
with him that the messages received
might not be to their liking. Touching
on his personal history he told his audi
ence that he was born in South Ireland,
and that many of his near kin were priests
and nuns. That he had left home in early
youth and travelled all over the world, be-
ing with circus part of the time, and
that he had seen the dark and bright side
of life. That after some years of travel
he finally wound up in Australia, where an
uncle took him in charge and tried to as.
sst him in making his future. He passed
rapidly over his early life, showing how
his earliest developments as a Sprtuallst
had been made manifest and developed in
that PARKWAY country. He stated that
his earliest developments were shown
when he could tell the sexes of unborn
children and find out different things with
out Il particle of trouble. At this time
Spirtualsm was little known and he had
great trouble in making Roadway. He con-
tinued in his work, however, and from
the time he attended his first private cir
Gle in the parlor of a friend he was contln-
ually on the road to success. Citing that
he could not make beneficial Roadway in
Australia he came to America in 1881
and made his headquarters ut San Fran
cisco. where, with the crudest kind of
Instruments, he made slow progress in his
work. He possessed his soul with pa
thence. however, as he had most of that,
and in time got his reward Informed
his hearers that he had felt the weight
of lively discussion for the survival of the
tittest in his time That in st. Louis he
had Il personal row with the editor of one
of the papers there, but came out victo-
riOus. That upon one occasion there he
had put man in trance by his powers
and kept him that way for nine hours,
the fact that doctors
were working on him all the time. That
the man never did return to consciousness
until he personally brought him to by
means of his spirits assistance. Stated
that Notwithstanding the war that was
waged on him by the press, which he
fought face to face and to his final victo-
~, he remained in st. Louis some eight
months, when the press was joined in
their fight by the Catholic church, which
was brought against him for no other rea-
son than that he dared deny the existence
of hell. That he had continued to give
utterances to his belief, however, not only
there, but now in Texas, and that he
would continue to do so. That this c0un-
try was one of freedom of speech, and he
intended to have his say Informed his
hearers that when his boys were on the
streets Saturday afternoon distributing
dodgers announcing his lecture that one
man had asked them by whose authority
they dared distribute such literature, and
one woman had pronounced it the devils
work.
Informed. his hearers that he was II
spiritualist. and proud of it. That it was
an awful fact to even think that because
priest does not minister to you upon
your death bed that you will go to hell.
That Il friend had once been murdered
while in the slums of a city attending the
bedside of the sick, and according to the
orthodox teachings, his soul would have
gone Immediately to hell, inasmuch as
there was no priest present when he died
to administer to him. He illustrated
how absurd it was to contend that God
would create being to suffer in the
agonies of such place as they predict
hell to be, saying that it was just as con-
sistent to say that a mother and father
would raise Il son for the gallows. That
there was no such place as a hell and
all such talk to that effect was without
avail so far as he was concerned.
That if the church theory of having
administering upon the death bed was
to be adhered to that the murderer on
the gallows would go to heaven, because,
forsooth. there was a priest there to ad
minister to him, while the man who had
been killed would go to hell because there
was no priest in attendance upon him
when he was murdered. That the muir
derer swung from the gallows into
heaven because of annointment, but the
victim of his wrath went to hell for the
absence of it. Informed his hearers that
the hour had come when people had
ceased to pay preachers to think for them.
4 little further along in his lecture he
said that recently he had heard sermon
on the "avenging Cod wherein the
preacher stated that there had been sew
enteen cases of people falling dead from
disobedience to the commands of the
Lord. That he wanted no such theories
in his. That he did not on the other
hand. ask anybody to believe him: that
he was not preaching, that the only thing
he did ask of them was that they would
spiritualism. Form home cir
cles and have frequent meetings for the
purpose of communing with the spirit
world that even if not successful at first
that time would bring it all in good sea-
son. That as for himself, he was COW
cred with the oil of spiritualsm and that
world criticisms and newspaper roasts
had no effect on him. He reviewed his
work in the United States. showing how
many clubs had been organized in his
wake. and congratulated the faithful on
the fact that notwithstanding the fact
that almost every hand was against the
cause that it was steadily prospering.
That as yet many were afraid TO ac-
knowledge their allegiance to the work.
but they came to him. in the still and
darkness of the night. for consultation
He also informed his hearers that spirit
ualism had brought him out of drunken.
ness and that he was now man. That
he had formerly made Il perfect ass of
but now he was a man. and nd.