Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-12-26

fresh their curiosity, and concentrated the NOV
| ng masses deiser than ever. A messenger rush
q 10 the pulpit in hot haste. and presented
note that was immediately read alond 10 preveu'
the people from scattering. The following is
teral copy of that singular eplslle:
Dear Brethren The devil has f1undered my
horse, which will detain me from reaching your
earthly tabernacle until evening. might have
performed the journey well enough on foot, but
could not consent TO eave poor Paul. especially
as he had never Jeff poor Peter. Horses, you
know, have no souls to save, aud it is therefore
all the more our duty as christians, 10 take care
Of their bodies. Watch and pray, beseech you,
and don't let the devil get among, you until cau-
de-ighung, when, God being willing shall be
at my post
"Your brother in Christ,
"PETER CARTWRIGHT"
In fashionable phase, the reading of this
strange effuslon produ ed qnite u SENSATION
SOM thought the man mad, others deemed lhr
letter hoax. Bnt still the effic as to one par
t'cular was unqnestionabe--it heightened and
intensified the public curiosity and snch, very
probably, was the precise result intended by the
writer
Al length the day closed the purple curtain
of twilight fell over the earth from the darken-
ing sky. Gods golden fires flashed ont III heav-
en-, aud men below kinded their pale candles.-
The encampment, village Of rudeiy construct
ed tents, was illuminated with briliiOncy that
caused every leaf Of the grove to shine aud spar
kle ss if all the trees were FURNISHED with phos
phorescent flame. 1t was like theatre. 1t was a
theatre in the open air. on the green sward, be-
meath the starry blue, incomptrtbly more pcur
psque and gorgeous than any stage scenery ever
prepared within the walls otbrck or m@rb c,where
the elite of imperial cities hrong to feast their
eyes on beauty, and their ears on the music OF
silver sounds.
Not only the altar and rows Of benches under
the broad shed, but the cuiire dlmfns0ns Of the
grove also, were crowded TO the Verge of suffo-
cation The word had been circulated thai the
III 5h'y orator hhH Co ol'e d' ldst' ahd tuT i'ttisH
anxiety to bcho!d him augmented more and
mole, 0s they pressed around the pulpit
Presently form arose on the preachers stand
and commenced giving nut hymn, IN slow
and measured tone, preliminary to the main cx-
efc'ses OF the night, "h"n every eye became rIv-
eted On thn person OF the stranger; for single
glance Of Hue gazefs vision was sufficient to re-
veal the preSrf'ce OF an extraordinary man al
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of Peter Cartwright. the inr-fatned Methods
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hand upon the Bible before him, and locke
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. s,nI before him in humiliation. And he nu,
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