The Archive · 1882

A Man of Destiny

A.—Most decidedly; I claim that Iam 'a man of destiny; you spoke of Napoleor ho thought he was a man of destin; though He had a different work for m I am as much a man of destiny as the Saviour, or Paul, or Martin Luther, or any of those religious men.

Q.—And your destiny was to kill Gur-field A.—It was my destiny to obey the Di will, and lot Him take care of it; put up my life and have not been hung or shot —And you did not expect to be A.—I had no expectation except to do the Divine will and let Him take care of mo; I am aatisfiod with the Deity's conduct of this case up to the present moment. to is protended inspiration, his views in ro yard to a theocratic daily," to the book called '*Trnth," to his lecture on the "Second Coming of Christ," oct., were morely borrowed from the ideas of others, and that portions of the book and lecture were plaginrsims from " book called The Berean" Porter also read a lot of papers by Guitenu, His idea was to make the world a "community," but as ho said now it was grand iden but not at all feasible, as there were tuo many bad people in the world,

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