St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-25
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saturday July s5th, 1885.
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NEW IBERIA, La, July 16.-An affair a little
out of the usual order of things occurred here
to-day, on our streets. 1t was brought about
in the following manner
In the Methodist Church @ prOtracted meet
ing has been in progress for the past two
weeks, a number of ministers from nelghborlng
towns being in attendance Up to last night
they had made eighteen converts. A couple OF
nights ago one OF the minister's, after the SER
mon was delivered and a call was being made
for mourners to c0me to the altar, started down
out penitents, and rested at the end of a pew
occupied by a music professor, who believes
contrary to the Christian creeds. Ike resu t
was not satisfactory to the preacher.
Last night this same minister preached, his
text being taken from Hebrews, 10. IS. The
professor was there. After the sermon the
wished to flee from the wrath to come. During
this call all who had lost confidence in the in
SEPARATION were denounced as the bloOdhounds
OF hell, who ought to be killed unless the
blessed Redeemer would convert them at last
Ss moral wrecks, as the satellites of the devil
and as hydra-headed monsters. He also de-
clared that they were hellish in their iniuen-
ces, that the devil had a bill of sale on them
and that God would finally remove them, etc.
The expressions caused the Professor to
smile. The minister caught the expression on
his face and promptly rebuked him. He de-
clared he had repeatedly prayed for him, had
prayed for him that night. and now, it God
gould not convert these int1dels, he prayed
that He in His infinite wisdom and mercy,
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them to hell at once, thus removing from the
paths of timid sinners the great stumbling
blocks. Several amens were heard In response
to this.
To-day the Professor made his appearance
on the streets decked with lightning rods. He
had a maiu rod of No. 70 insulated copper wire
which extended from above his head down his
back, branching at the small of his back, con-
finuing down each limb and terminating mn
der each shoe heel. Above his head this wire
branched off into three points similar to those
nm liphfnFnp rods G& G1Onnnnfinn with this Tnrin
wire betWeen the shoulders two others led, one
down each arm, and terminated in three
pronged points on each coat cuff. lie appeared
upon the streets just ahead OF a heavy thunder
storm, and proceeded at once to call upon the
ministers at the parsonage.
The Professor is by no means crazy. He says
he only feels a little annoyed to think the
preachers have such bad opinions Of unbeliev-
ers, and that he only was taking O little pre-
caution against the possible emergency OF an
answer to their prayers.-special to the Plea
yHne.
The professor appeared in our office,
which is just across a narrow street
from his post, as q violent thunder
storm burst upon our town the morning
after the scenes of the previous night
recounted in the above dispatch from
this place of the 10th. He had on his
person all the non-cOnducting wires
described above. He was tall enough
to have been a pretty good conductor
himself. While describing in graphic
terms his experience at the Methodist
Church on the previous evening, there
came an "oak cleaving ~thunderboltn
that seemed to fairly demolish our lit
tie chebang, and the "reekit-Wee devil'
who stood next to the great denounced,
fairly Wilted into a shadow of his for
mer self. A second bolt followed with
a defamation that seemed to shake the
very earth and made the glass in the
windows rattle like leaves in a NOyem-
Der blast, but the wicked Professor in
his insulation seemed to defy the wrath
of the Powers above and the preachers
below. He smiled ~serenely while we
would gladly have been somewhere else
where there was little less elemental
strife at the time.
We were not at the church at the
time the singular occurrences took place
between the Professor and the parsons,
but we have heard from other sources
that the language reported in the dis
patch to the P~icayune as having been
uttered in the church here was correct,
and we regret that the Incorporate
zeal Of a follower of the Savior of man
kind should lead him into the use of
expressions calculated to disgust all
truly pious people and cast a Teproach
upon the very name of religion.-Ibelia
Enterprise.