The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-15
ALMOST ANTI.ALL THINGS
NEW STREET PREACHERS COMPRE-
HENSIvE DOCTRINE.
Entertained a Large Crowd Down
Town Last Night-Inciden-
tally Advertising.

The walls of the buildings on Meridian
street from Monument place TO Washington
street have echoed the notes of the trumpet
of the Salvation Army. the songs of The
Pentecost Band. the preachings of the
MormOns and the crying of the Socialists,
and it seemed that everything in the cate
CORY of science. religion and philosophy had
been ~expounded from this public speaking
ground, but last night turned up something
new. The speaker was Henry NJ. Lawson.
of Battle Creek, Mich, and he held a crowd
about him Cor several hours. 1t was his
second appearance before the public of In
dianapolis. His doctrine was the most pc
culiar in its makeup. covering everything
from politics to Sunday-school teaching
taken strictly from a Bible standpoint"
MI. Lawson went to the Bible to show
that labor unions are in violation Of the
divine law, that trusts are incidental or
springs of all that is but good. that hyp-
notism, mind reading, mesmerism, spiritual
ism and all the occult sciences are of direct
inspiration from the devil, that all human
ity is Incorporate and that intemperance
starts at the family table" that the laws
Of the country and the Constitution OF the
United States are repugnant and not for the
freedom Of man i'm many respects. that
there is nothing new under the sun. as con-
ditions repeat themselves in cycles of every
thirty years. that humanity is imbued with
greed and grab. and that the only solution
of these perplexing problems is to strike at
the fountain head OF II all with the Scrip
lures.
The advocate of these reforms takes is
sue on all popular topics and gives Biblical
reasons why so many things are wrong.
He said no reforms were ever accomplished
through the ballot box nor by revolution.
that the only remedy for the many evils
was to get the people right" On the side,
he thought that free silver has its merits
and voted for Bryan. The capitalists stand
before the civil war, he says, was on the
side of slavery, and when that was taken
from them they sought gold, then followed
the demonetization of silver until now
exist practically the same conditions re-
garding capital that existed before the
war.
The purpose of Mr.. Lawson's talks is TO
merely start people TO thinking" That is
his only mission, he says. His work is
purely one of love and philanthropy, he
said. and at no time has he ever taken up a
collection or asked for money from the peo-
schools. the Women's Christian. Temper
ance Union. and the Young Mems Chris
tan Association. giving lectures In series.
He ~cOntemplates giving a series or ten lee
lures in this city under the auspices of the
local Young Mems Christian Association.
which will perhaps be given at Fairview
Park. Negotiations are now pending and
the last of the week TO positively announce
Just what he will do while in the city. In
cidentally he is selling and advertising a
cereal and at present is at the head of 2
crowd Of boys distributing literature. call
ing the attention of the public TO his ware.