People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1897 — PROFOUND, BUT UNLEARNED [ARTICLE]

PROFOUND, BUT UNLEARNED

An Uncultured Boy lectures on Subjects of Great Depth. A shock headed boy of 15, whose school days have been limited to three short years and whose life has been passed chiefly in a little country town in Washington, delivered a lecture in San Francisco the other night upon the “Different Religious Systems of the Wqrld,_Now and In the Past.

Charles Anderson is the boy’s name. He was born in Cowlitz county in 1883 and lived there until two months ago. When lecturing, the boy’s language and. manners seemed to belong to some gray haired old patriarch, and many of his hearers pronounced the discourse a deep and learned dissertation. And yet -his conversation reveals a woeful lack of education, and he can scarcely read His friends claim he is a medium Charles says he has been able to produce his condition at will, and. though unable to foretell his subject, lie i.-- aide to remember a little of his dhimui.-o after the trance, but not eiieugh to r:aider him any more inteihgvnf'iu His everyday life.