The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-25
Dr.. John P. D. John Surprises |
The Chautauqua Audience |
When He Takes This View |
OF the Subject.
ZUEBLIN TOUCHES ON
TELEPHONE SITUATION. !
Says 1t Is Better for Local
Companies to Cooperate
Than Otherwise Today's
Sessions.

Hell IL ALREADY here, We dont have |
to wait. for there is no hell, here or
hereafter, except the hell of sopang
and reaping." With these words DR..
John p. d. John startled his hearers
while delivering his lecture Did Man
Make God or God Make Man." at the
Chautauqua hast night. DR.. John had
been trying hard to push the atheist
and scientist.into a corner when he ut
tered the above startling words. Het
said that If a scientist could account
for the present hell the task of ac-
counting for any that might come
hereafter would be easy. DR.. John
gave his audience the impression that
he believed hell to be the daily pun
ishment which mans conscience
gives him for the wrong he does.
Since conscience Is Of the immortal
part of man 1t follows that hell Will
last forever.
DIR. John is a brainy man and those
who heard his wonderful sermon Sun
day morning had been lead to expect
something great from him Last night
But his task last night was too big for
him-too big in fact for any mortal.
The audience felt so from the time he
began and did not evince so much in
terest in the lecture as has been given
to the other numbers of the chautau-
qua program. DIR. John attempted to
show that the atheist is wrong and
that wherever in the past modern sci
ence has disagreed with the bible the
facts, when found out, have upheld
holy writ Consequently he deduced
the conclusion that the bible issalways
correct.
DR.. John said: 1T is absolutely pre-
posterous that the finite should pass
judgment upon the infinite. A mo-
mentary glance at any portion of his
tory is worse than useless. To ex-
plain cause and effect we must take
all the acts of all the world since time
| began.
Moses was right when he wrote that
| light appeared on the second day Of
creation and the sun on the fourth.
For by nebular hypothesis the great
| blotches of light in the heavens are
suns now forming. II the miracle 10
unscientific. then science itself is un-
scientific, for when it attempts to ac-
count for the creation 1t is driven in
to an absurdity."
DIR. John believes that by a day Mo
ses meant an age or a cycle ofstime.
weIbourn's Theory.
| hn nf ID a1r
who occupied the ChautauQua plat
form could be realized, the present
dry weather in Richmond would be
broken. Mr.. Welbourn by means Of
electricity caused a small cloud to
form and a shower of rain to fall In
a hermetically sealed glass tube. The
time would come he said wbsn
drought would have no terrors. for
when men wanted rain, they would
charge the heavens with electricity
and the cooling shower wouin fall.
He also showed upon the platform
the means by which great ocean
steamers of the Atlantic would be
run by power generated at Niagara.
He further declared that the time will
come when the traveller In the Andes
mountains will cook his breakfast
with electricity generated at the same
cataract. The day Of the wire con-
nection is doomed and the day of the
wireless is coming" declared We'll
bourn.
Weibourn is not fake, but a really
great man Of science. Moreover he
halls from Earlham college. He got
his training in speaking from Prof. z.
p. TruebIood. Prof. TruebIood who
is a member Of the program commit
tee of the chautauqua had Welbourn
put on the program as an experiment
to see IL he could speak. His former
pupil certainly proved himself good.
for. though his voice is not strong by
nature, it was the best handled voice
that has yet been heard on the chau-
tauqua platform.
weIbourn's home is in Union City.
this state, though he lives much in
| New York where he is member Of
the Academy of Science. He has
worked in the great laboratories OF
Edison, Tesla. Crookes. Oliber Hobbies
and Lord Kelvin. All these men have
assisted him in the preparation OF his
lecture which is not delivered prf-
mariIy for money but to create sci
entifc spirit in this country, such az
now prevails in Germany.
welbourn says that when the coal
fields give out the problem OF fuel will
be easily solved either by waterpover
or great engines run directly by the
! suns rays, or using the heat from the