The sun., 1903-12-10
ANOTHER PROPHET REJECTED.
XrU YORK AS COLD no APOSTLE
RALSTON AS TO DOWIE.
rented Seer with = Pair OF Bass Drums
Finds That He. Too. Is without Honor
Hands OF Rival Prophet Laid Upon
him In AnEer-On to Darkest Newark.


Tirds That He. Too, Is without Honor
Hands OF Rival Prophet Laid Upon
him In Anger--On to Darkest Newark.
Like Brother Dowie. Brother John H.
Ralston is an apostle and a prophet who
srst embarked in the prophet business in
(h,ca 20 and afterward came to New York
N cat her In the shekels OF the unre gener-
s,c Brother Dowie has lately been ha vim g
.ore unpleasant adventures with creditors,
receivers and other emissaries Of the pro-
fame world, while Brother Ralston, not to put
too fine point on it is on his uppers.
Bruised in body and in spirit. Brother
Ralston collected his wife and children
Yesterday from the various eleemoeynary
institutions where they had been dis
tnb,rod as an incident to his prophesy-
ing career in sinful New York, and, with
them wet and weary and sore at heart,
went to Newark where he proposes once
more 10 tackle the prophet industry He
is not dlscourag ged. His objection to manual
labor is as deep-seated as ever. He only
10, 90 here in New York to get better hold
oyerin Jersey.
|, was Brother Ralston's rock-ribbed
determnat ion not to combine prophesy
with labor Of any kind which got him into
trouble even out in Chicago. If you are
a prophet trust. like Elijah the Dowie, you
NAV divorce yourself from toll and still
travel in private cars It's hard shedding
when Won try the business on individual
fines, az Brother Ralston found out.
1t was in the Loud Cry and Third Annual
Message From the Lord" line Of prophecy
that he embarked when he was in Chicago
Brother H. 7. Nelson was in the same busi-
ness in Chicago at the same time, and he
and Brother Ralston did not pull we'll
together.
Brother Nelson urged upon Brother
Ralston the advisability of dong something
for a living. Brother Nelson himself is a
stone mason. Mrs. Hedlung Of 10 Columbia
place, Brooklyn who s one OF the followe rs
of Second Advent prophets. said last evening
that Brother Nelson's hands plainly showed
that he had worked some time. AT present
lie is living at 865 Columbus avenue, Man
haitian where he is writing book.
But back in Chicago Brother Ralston
resented Brother Nelson's suggestion about
manual labor and parted company with him.
With his wife and two children, Jacob, aged
H. and Bonny, aged 9, four tents and two
bass drums. he organized grand Prophet
and Apostle aggregation and went out on
the road. He travelled as far as New Or
leans, exhibiting in some towns for several
weeks at time and sometimes playing
only one night stands. He was on his way
northward when the Dowie caravan reached
New York. How that event turned the
faces of all crankdom afterward is recent
history. All the standard varieties Of cranks
as we'll as scores of others with brains be-
devilled in new apd strange ways set out on
rgrimages to New York and Dowie as
another Mecca.
tents and his two bass drums, joined the
innllmerable throng. He said yesterday
that he was invited here by the Seventh
Day Adventists. At all events he got here.
His first descent was upon the Columbus
avenue headquarters where Brother Nelson
connection with his literary labors. Brother
Ralston's experiences at this pla oe we're
spirited from the outset.
On his very first attendance at one OF the
prophecy seanoes he got licked and Incl
dentally flung out. According to his own
provoked. All he had done was to butt in
on one Of Brother Nelson's best rhapsodical
prophsoies BY daahinx down TO tho front and
snoatins .siienosI The Lord is giving me
In relating the exciting scenes which
followed Brother Ralston pointed with
pride yesterday to the fact that they had
not kicked him downstairs.
They only g0t me az ss dn far as tt the ban
Thss dn ek deaD aom etee ee Sros
me over the bannisters. They tried to,
but am a strong man and got a good
grip on the bannisters and held on.
had my hands pretty badly scratched up
but they didn't ding mo downstairs. oh.
no"
Nelson instigated it. He wants to be
The chief prophet. I was his competitor
The men and the women, too, seemed to be
mad with rage just because / said that
the Lord had appeared to me-
o. D. Hedlung Of 10 Columbia place,
Brother Nelson. Mrs. Hedlung said last
night that her husband could prophesy.
too, although he did not make busi-
ness of it. He Is painter by trade.
To, the home Of the Hedlungs came
children. Mr.. and Mrs. Hedlung have
four children of their own and only three
rooms to their fiat, but they took Mrs.
Ralston and the two children in and cared
for them.
meal. Mrs. Ralston sold newspapers
and went out and did washing and so was
able to pay something for her own and
the children's board.
Brother Ralston, being a prophet and
an apostle. Of course could not work, He
got to hanging around the neighborhood
praying and whooping up prophecies in
the street and getting crowds together.
Mrs Hedlung said last night that Mrs:
Ralston got to believe that her husband
was not In communication with the right
sort OF angels
She did not want to go back to him
until the evil one in some way gave her
bad COUNSEL" said Mrs, Hedlung. RAJ.
son was fine talksr. He always had
enough to eat, because he could ask for
it and for money so well. He used to come
Upstairs and tap on the window panes.
He bothered US all the time"
The upshot of it was that Mr.. Hedlung
went to Commissioner Of Charities Teale
and Mrs Ralston was taken to the Home
for the Friendless and the children to other
asyums for the destitute.
Brother Ralston meantime in some in
scrutable way had amassed enough money
10 get to Newark. His wife wrote to him
there and yesterday he came and got her
and the children and took them to Newark.
where he is going to continue prophesying.
RECEPTION AT PORTRAIT SHOW.