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SMALL BOYT'ilEOSOPlilST.It -+-* • • • # iDistinguished “Coohols” ofJudson LesterBrown.THOUGHT TO BE fl; PROPHET.He's the Reincarnation of a Noted Massachusetts Orator—A Lad of Great Expectations. -(Special Correspondence or the Sunday World.)Buzzard's Bay, Mass., May 15.LD-FA SHIONED spiritualism at the Onset Bay camp-meeting' grounds is an effete cult. Theosophy has taken Its place, and a five-year old boy—Judson Lester Brown—is itschief expounder.Little Judson, so the followers of Blavatsky assert, la the reincarnation of Ed.” Wheeler, the greatest cxhorter— greatest in fervor and volume of sound —Onset Bay has ever known. This inexpected to increase and develop until ho surpasses the uncanny abilities accredited to Zoroaster. Zanoni , and all the high priests of the Rosicrucians.Devout believers are asserting that the shades have ordained that he shall be another Nazarene leading the world into the ranks'/of. theosophy. Ordinary folks look upon this statement as rather blasphemous, . but Onset Bay theoso-phists appear to,believe it thoroughly. .Not that .they will discuss the matter much with unbelievers, however. On the contrary, they are as reticent about Judson’s fu'ttif'e as its Importance to them deserves. ..A TRIFLE ; PROFANE.In spite of being a good and devouttheosophlst, Judson is very profane.Good judges, able to appreciate thefine' points of strong and expressive rhetoric, agree that the little cnap can swear faster and more picturesquely than “Ed” Wheeler in his most fervent exhortations.; DISTINGUISHED “CONTROLS.”. His controls” In the spirit world are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster, his friends assert, and they claim that th s remarkable aggregation of national talent is the cause of the lad's wonderful astuteness.Judson has a slight impediment in his speech.“What does it signify?” was asked.“It is provided by the shades to prevent his profanity and h s utterances while yet a boy from being taken at their full significance,” replied a theoso-phist. If it were not so the lad would lie in no end of trouble from his evil tongue and his dlspos’it on to make life m serable for others—boys in particular. The impediment will wear away soon, when the time' comes for him to enter into the life work which ‘Ed’ Wheeler laid down.”AN INTEEiESTING HISTORY.Judson has lived at the camp-ground settlement here, within view of President Cleveland’s summer cottage, two winters. His history, as theosophists tell it, is interesting.In the beglnn.ng, they say, a spiritual^Jedson [ester lt;^roWr, Ltfeo^opfiist.
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World
New York, New York, US
Sun, May 17, 1896
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