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Chicagospecial: About thirty pw.pie^gathered in a private parlor in l.aKe View^last night. They were the desciples of the^Kev. ^i^-orge Jacoti ^^-h^t-itifurth. This^uiau has a large farm near Kixklord, 111 .^where bis followers have beeu worship^^ing him as the Christ returned to earth.^While tacitly w^ epting this homage and^acting as a teacher of divine truth, he bas^never until last night, openly put torth a^claim to the Messiahship. A paper reports^his talk to his disciples, mostly women, as^follows:
1am the same j^-. us who appeared on^earth IViV^ jears ago: the same son of Oud.^When 1 came before 1 did not destroy .-ialan^and his devils. I left my work incomplete^1 have come now toit up. This time
1will not leave a Liche or coru^-r in which^a single imp ran hide. 1 am ttie promised^child, whicn la to bruise the serpent's head.^1 am bruising it now. Every aciand thuugM^of my lite ititl.rtaa bruise on tneuld t.-tupier.^I know that 1 shall be scoffed at and rpit^upon by the world. Some people will i^^j^1 aiu crazy. Others will say 1 am a fraud.^But the church will oppose me more^viruie tly than the world. The cburch^has become M infected with devils tiial ;^all faith has left it. 11 would crucify u.e 1 ^rlr^ ^;a|^if it couid. Miail 1 t*e crucified tins time^as I was BbbBBwT Owing to Hie develop- j^ment of guvernmenl since I Mas on the i^earth last. 1 shall probatii) escape ptijsual^crucifixion this time, but 1 shall suffer a^spiritual crucifixion in the abute of the ,^church and the disbelief of the world in ;^my divinity. It will be as hard to make the {^people believe 1 am Ctirist now as it was^before. (ii^d ^ill necu to knock soui^ men^down to make them believe in me. Hut^^iod baa chosen ine and tie will do Ins^work, lie has chosen me out of ttie pe^e
fie.1 was born iowij, as pnp!n-Mtti in^saiah. 1 am not beautiful to. ^.k u|*^n.^In fact, 1 am homely. How dn 1 know I^am QMIf 1 will tell ^ou. 1 fiaii a^vision when 1 was five BSstSS ^id 1 BBS)^that 1 should meet a holy woman^who would be to me inj spiritual mother,^and train me for a divine uie. 