The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-11-18

sey's preaching, but before copying
this narrative we wish to notice what
took place at Rochester, N. r., short
time previous while Mr.. Crapsey was
attending the Lutheran conference.
He was invited to visit the Rev. Charles
Hammond by one of his brothers in the
ministry by the name of Samuel Nook.
On entering Mr.. Hammond's room.
Mr.. Crapsey said he sat by table writ
ing (he was what is now called \ me-
chanical writing medium.) The Dutch
preacher who accompanied him said
to the medium in broken English: II
hear dat YOU can tell mans name
when you never did see him." The me-
dium's hand kept moving and writing.
but Mr.. Hammond could not read it.
He said Esprit write this SO can read
it. l can't read it, Then the Dutch
man said, "let me Gee dat writing. :"
On looking at it. he said dds is very
nice German writing. Dis is my name,
Shem, and they never did call me by
dis name since I was christened. Dis
is q curious ting. What will give you
and you tell me how you do dis" The
German said afterward he thought
while going to visit Mr.. Hammond that
| it would not be possible for any one to
know his christened name as he had
| never been callad by that name and no
| one in this country knew Shem was his
real name. but the spirits knew it and
controlled the mediums hand to write
| it in German. Perhaps it was his
mother who had passed to spirit life
and then crossed the painless waste of
the vast ocean to lie Il ministering splr-
it to her son.
Rev. John Wesley thinks spirits can
travel very fast. In his Journal, page
1863. is an account of his brothers
death at Sea, and of his appearance to
him just after his death, in the foot
note, Mr.. Wesley says: $50 spirit
finds no difficulty in travelling three or
our hundred miles in moment" Mr..
Hammond also prophesied of the won-
derful outpouring of the spirit to come
in the meeting Mr.. Crapsey was about
to hold in Pa, and that he would be
subject to much persecution on account
or it.
In the "History of Modern Ameri-
can Spiritualism, the author, Mrs.
Emma Hardinge Britain, says, 1.-The
following narrative reprinted in part
from the ''Spiritual Telegraph" is a
we'll authenticated account Of one of
those singular revival fevers, the de-
tails of which seem to be so closely al
lied to Spiritualisln, that it claims its
legitimate place in our notice of that
movement in Pennsylvania. Mr. Part
ridge, in his editorial account Of what
follows, states that the Rev. John
Crapsey was minister of the Reform
ed Lutheran Church, and that at a
meeting which he WAS holding in Roul-
cite, Potter Co., Penn, just AS he was
quoting the words Of Jesus on the cross
Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabacthani, AL
mighty invisible power seemed sudden
ly to possess him, and luminous ap-
pearance scintillated upon and around
his hanG shining with brilliant efful-
g nee" Under All impulse which l
Gould not resist, l sprang, says Mr..
Crapsey, from the desk, out upon the
middle of the floor into the midst of the
congregation. Great signs and Won
'le:s then ensued aud were witnessed
Ivy all. Men, women and even STAN
mering children were seized, speaking
with new tongues and uttering prophe-
cies. PRAYERS and celebrations were
CURED forth in abundance, and many
Of tlp congregation broke out into the
most marvellous and heavenly slnging.' -
Here was a spiritual circle in good
earnest, for we all believed we were in
the immediate presence OF the angels Of
God. We were forcibly reminded of
the day of Pentacost. THE place
where they were assembled was shak-
Ell, and indeed the place where we
were WAS shaken violently a I'd contin-
ntd to shake for days afterward, so
much so that one of the Directors of
the school requested Mr.. Crapsey to
! stop the meeting for he said the house
shook so the scholars could not write.
The teacher of the school. Miss Mapala
Ellsworth, gave her name as witness
| that the house shook. The news spread
rapidly that MI. Crapsey's young con-
verts were speaking in new tongues
the wonderful work of God. Many
came from the county seats Of Potter
and Mexican to see the strange mani
festations and listen to the burning
words Of the entranced speakers whose
pathetic appeals were sometimes made
with tears, streaming down their
cheeks and sometimes with smiles of
ineffable JOY beaming on their counte.
nance. The house not only shook but
many of the people shook. One sunday,
in Mr. Crapsey's absence, we held a
prayer meeting. We all agreed at tile
commencement of the meeting to pray
to God, if these manifestations and
shaklngs were of God that it might con.
tinue and he more violent, if not, that
1t might cease. The class leader from
Coudersport was present. Accordingly
a few fervent and earnest prayers were
made to that effect, when to the aston.
isllment of all, our prayers were sig.
nally answered by the shaking and
trembling of nearly the Whole congre.
Cation. Learoy Lyman said he was a.
snamed to be seen and held on to the
desk to keep still until he was forced
by the invisible powers to come out in.
to the alley for room for his limbs to be
exercised. Some of the mediums (fOr