The Glenwood post., 1906-08-04
A LETTER FROM
MISS OBERDORFER
Declares Her Belief in LImiiIeSS Life
TheOry---fxlrdCts From Santa
Paper Concerning Lucas
CAMP IS PROPERLY CHApERONtD
Santa Barbara, Calf, July %, 1906.

WI "a u "A Ill StUulDS
you paper which contains telegraphc
report from the press of your town,
followed by an article by the press
here, so that you may see for your
selves and then decide who my friends
are. Santa Barbara being the home
town of this so called "Black Prophet
Lucas, who was run out of Denver in
about the same way as the police drove
me out of Glenwood Springs. Do
friends insist that they have never
met you and never want to see YOU
again2 | have been in your midst
for nearly two years with never an
unkind thought, word OF deed toward
any one of you; but with the highest
motive 1.-THE development of body brain
and soul) have I taught your babes in
love and service. DO you see now
why | printed that personal notice in
your paper May 10, 1906? l knew
then, yes, last September, that | was
soon to graduate from the public school
room to life work wherein l will
give my all in love and service to the
good of humanity. Why talk about
yourselves through me? You can not
touch me. Bless your souls. "un-
der over stand" your condition at
present. And when | do return TO
your town my friends will all love to
meet and see me; fol | am your frierd
and will always continue to love and
serve the dear souls in Glenwood when
ever an opportunity presents itself.
Sincerely and divinely,
CLARA OBERDORFER
The above letter which was received
by the Post too late for last week
publication proves Miss Oberdorfer an
earnest disciple of the Black Prophet
and her intention of staying with the
camp. The Santa Barbara Daily
News of July 81 contains the follow
ing article referred to in the letter:
Sunny" Lucas had great meet
ing last evening. Whether one be-
lievcs in him and what he tries to say
or not, the meeting was big one,
his audience was thoroughly repre-
sentative one and he entertained those
who were present.
Some of those present were deeply
impressed with what Lucas had to
say; others regarded the lecture as
joke. Lucas would probably take
either attitude cheerfully and be
pleased to have sent everybody away
happy, no matter from what cause
Lucas has changed somewhat since
his last public appearance in Santa
Barbara. He formerly talked with a
Iapidity that made following him al
most an impossibility. He has modi,
fed this and now talks with less speed
but with far more intensity. A Rus
sian revolutionist could not speak
with more apparent earnestness than
does this BLACK Prophet, " who is
something like nine tenths something
else than negro.
The theory of the ''Limitless Life"
was expounded following program of
whistlings, music and Iecitations
Sunny ought to issue a glossary or
an appendix, and then his hearers
might understand what he is driving
at He has coined Il great many words
that must mean something to him, but
that are hard for the ordinary mortal
who has not the inside track to grasp
1t is evident that there is great deal
of the Lucas theory that Sunny
does not propose to make public prop
ertv. He indicates it in his lectures,
and people fail to understand him.
Whether they would understand or
not were they initiated into the full
mysteries of the ''Limitless Life no
one but the initiated can tell and ap-
parentiy they are not telling
Let the Lucas philosophy be that
of charlatan, the kind the King
and the Duke perpetrated along the
Mississippi banks; let it be merely a
tumble CT words, as some say il is. or
let it be the very depth of human wis
dom-as it must he, if it does what
Lucas claims for it-and the fact re-,
mains that from a barefooted, ragged
little urchin with no prospects Lucas
has eveIoped a large following
throughout the United States, greater
following than anyone has ever gained
otherwise, and has done at least some
thinking.
Lucas has some statements to make
about hygiene, bathing, fresh air,
and possibly about the selection of
like partners that have ruth in them.
AS to his theories, they concern only