The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-29
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a long line Of people in their second
childhood and many colored folks filed
through the cemetery at Greenville, n.
j., yesterday to the s'faith cure" camp
meeting. The lame, the deaf and the
blind, chronic paralytics and promiscu-
Gus invalidS marched in the grotesque
procession The invalids were bithe,
| the paralytics capered nimbly along, gay
enough TO dance on the graves, the deaf
thought that thcy,could hear the crickets,
the blind that they could see, and some
Of the more enthusiastic negroes mag
ined that they could fly. Every one in
the procession believed in miracles. AL
had come from various towns in Con-
Gecticut, Pennsylvania, New York and
New Jersey, and some had travelled near
ly 500 miles.
The camp meeting was held in the
grounds Of the sMount Zion Sanctuary" +"
an ordinary, two-story house, whose
outer walls are painted with scriptural
quotations and sentences bearing on the
':faith cure" It is claimed by the 'tfaith
cure people that woman of the name
of Antoinctte Jackson had direct reve-
lation from God, and that she is the only
person in modern times and since the
Hebrew prophets who was ever in direct
communication with the Creator.
About 500 people were crowded in the
tent yesterday afternoon when Mrs. An
toinette Jackson, very healthy looking
woman, opened the devotions by saying
that she had once had curvature of the
spine and neuralgia of the brain. She
had been healed by faith, which also
cured her Of q desire to so to the opera
She said that she had given herself Who'll
ly to tic Lord, and it didn't make any
difference to her now whether she had
new bonnet Or not At this reference a
colored man in the camp meeting cried:
''Praise the Lord"
':Banjo Bill'' arose and declared that
his entire family had been healed by the
faith cure One child that had been
helpless with spinal disease for thirteen
years had been annointed and was now
able to skip the rope. Another had been
cured of pneumonia and a third of
malaria of four years standing. AS for
himself, he had been cured of a desire
for strong drink of eighteen years stand
ing and Of 4 desire for tobacco which had
run for thirty years.
! middle-aged man said that faith had
cured him of playing pool. He used to
drink half a gallon of whiskey a day,
AID had never opened the covers of q
Bible until he was 81 years old. a col
cred man got up and said that he had
been cured OF chicken stealing and of
hanging around watermelon patches.
Since he had been healed by the ''faith
cure" no turkeys had ever got tangle
up in his clothes, and he had never lost
his way and run into smoke house.
Another colored man testified that he
couldn't hear fog horn until he came
to the camp meeting. He had wrestled
with the lumbago for years, and came to
the first meeting full Of doubt and COW
cred with plasters. Now he no longer
needed any plasters and the lumbago
had gone off. \ fat and Jolly woman
who would probably weigh 300 pounds,
got up and said that she used to be so
fat she couldn't walk Putting her trust
in the ':faith cure" she asked the Lord
to take away some of her fat. Since that
time she had lost thirty-fve pounds.
"Eave2't We right to jump and hol-
ler:" said she, bounding up from the
floor; il we didn't tell the way we feel
we'd bust asunder."
4 woman lieutenant of the Salvation
Amy said that she had ruptured a lung
while speaking at an open air meeting.
That lung had been wholly healed by
Tie s:faith cure" and she could now
shout as well as when she was a sergeant.
Many devout people testified in a simple
and sincere way that had been cured of
grave bodily ills by the faith cure, and
pointed to their friends and kindred
present who had been unable to walk
until they had been healed through
faith.
No collection was taken up, but most
Of those present dropped coins into a
box at the door. ':Rev." NJ. D. Han
COX, an unordaincd preacher, who pre-
sided over the camp meeting, invited all
present to join his new "church Of the
irst born" and to leave the Babylon Of
he modern churches, if the latter would
2ot allow them to belong to the two
churches at the same time.
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