The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-23
IN THE FAITH CURE CAMP.
The First Annual Gathering OF the
Mount Zion Believers.
E,nn1 The Nam York SIM


ference of the Faith Cure Church OF
America began in the Mount Zion taoer-
nacle at Greenville on the New York bay
shore yesterday under the direction Of Mrs,
Annette Jackson, who claims to be the
founder OF the first faith cure church,
and brothers Hanc0x and jackson. Only
about 100 people attended the meeting,
which was held III the tabernacle in tae
afternoon. During the morning brothers
Hanc0x, Jackson and Matthews, with
several other men VINO claimed to have re-
ceived physical aid by faith, took oil their
coats, and with sledge hammers, ropes.
poles, canvas, and good supply of muscle,
put in place the first tent ever erected on
the grounds. Ii is about 75xl00 feet and -
feet high. On the four fiagstaifs on the top
are four Union Jacks and blood-red flags
bearing these inscriptions: Have talUh
in Gol,n Come 20 jesus, mount Zion
Sanctuary Forever" and Gospel Tent.
The brothers worked hard to get the tent IN
place in time for the opening service, puv
did1't succeed. Sister jackson led the
meeting IN the tabernacle. Nearly all the
audience we're women, and every Que pres
ent claimed to have been cured OF some
physical ailment.
Brother II ncox, who is a minister by
profession, told how the Lord had sent SIS
ter Jackson TO Greenville. In 1880 sister
jackson and her husband were at Long
Branch laboring with the gamblers and try
ing TO show them the way 70 heaven. One
evening she was sitting alone in her room,
when she suddenly felt a mighty power
come over her, and then all was blank for
while. Her friends thought she was sick,
and gathered around he. She had been
speech less for u few minutes when she saw
a great sheet of water appear before her
ewes, and then she saw a shore and long
wooden pier reaching out into the water.
Her vision grew brighter; and she saw
house surrounded by trees, and finally She
heard voice saying: Go thou and build a
sanctuary and work in my vineyard.
Then it all vanished and she got back into
this life She told ali she h ID seen and
heard, and then began praying to God 10
guide her to the place be had told her to
find She felt a mysterious power calling
her to this city, and she came here with
her husband, ald for two years laborei IN
a mission on Tenth street Ii was there
that she met Mr.. HancoX, and told him of
her vision. He was deeply impressed.
Thew labored together for sometime, and
finally the the same my sterious something
that had moved her before told Mrs, Jack
son to search for the place. DIR. Hancox's
father, old Commodore Hancox, who has
been a captain on river passenger steamers
for years. owned tine property On whlcl the
present sanctuary is located. One dav 1t
occurred to Mr.. Hancox that that might
be a good spot for worship, and he sug
gested the idea to Mrs. jackson, She
agreed and they went to Jersey City.
The approach to the grounds is not very
pleasant Ii is through a cemetery and
over a canal bridge, and at first sight it Is
not at all prepossessing. When MIS-. Jack
son saw the back of the premise she at once
said that was not the place the Lord had
shown her in her vision. She had evidently
failed to look at the rear of her vision, fof
when she reached the front of the sanctu-
airy and saw the magnificent grounds aud
the view of bay clear out through the Mar
rows she fell on her knees and shouted her
praises for having found the spot. 1t tai
lied in every detail, she said, with the spot
she had seen in her vision. Commodore
Hancox, SO his son says, bad been ap-
preached with offers for the purchase Of
the place for over two years, but another
mysterious something had been working on
him, and refused to let him sell 1t, although
some of the offers were for more than the
place was worth. Strangely enough, when
his son and MIS-. jackson went to him and
offered to buy the place, he consented to
sell at once, and fixed a very reasonable
price on 1t. The son purchased it, and then
the first faith cure church was organized
and incorporated under the laws Of New
Jersey. AID Mrs Jackson, her husband,
and Mr.. Hancox, Jr., went to tie sanctu-
airy 10 live and preach. Their ia ne ex-
tended and great crowds came to hear
them. Many were converted, and none
who asked for physical assistance was
turned away The new converts were sent
out in all parts of the country. They or
ganized branch socie les and were especi-
ally successful in towns along the hudson
river. They preached faith first, last, ami
Ell! the time. The house next to the sanctu-
airy was next purchased and Transformed
into a home, where tn Sc who were cured
could live without mo icy.
After Mr. Hancox had finished telling of
the founding of the church and of the
work that had been done, the go ID brothers
and sisters exchanged experiences aud sung
Jubilee songs until late in the afternoo II.
EveryUne had a wonderful story 10 tell,
and many of them told two or three.
Every imaginable form of disease hal been
successfully met and vanqu!shed by won
derful faith. Those who had been lams,
halt. or blind were among them, aud told
of the banisnment o. their Clutches, their
glasses. and trumpets, and their complete
restoration to health.
There were maay requests for prayer.
One lady wanted theprayers of the people
for little blind girl who has wonderful
fulGl. ion6 Will Lo az OUt VI tAS uictllIGH
this week, and will be made to see If she
does not recover her sight before she gets
there.
There will be a baptizlng tomorrow. A
lady living in Irvington, II. j.. deeply af-
hicted with terrible disease, appeared at
a meeting in the tabernacle last week, and
before she left for her nome she was cured.
Her husband, who had been an uabeheYer,
had bis eyes opened by the wonderful work
of faith, and both sic and her husband will
be among those baptized to-day. Ga Sun
day tue biggest crowd is expected, and
there will be meetings in the ia ern'cle, at
the beach and in the tent Brother Han
cox says there will be some wo lderful cures
then, too The encampment will last until
Sept p The last two weeks de.eg1rcs from
all parts OF the country will be on hand aud
will report on the work that has been
done.
The Elsey faith cure people will have no
part in the encampment Mr.. Hancox ex-
planned Yesterday that the reason Elsey
chapel was not used by Dir. Jackson and
himself was that Mr. Elsey wouldn't give il
TO them and the Lord would not let them
worship on borrowed property. Tho pro-
perty we are on nos SAID Mr. HuucoN,
''is blessed by God. Angels never stool on
more sacred ground and 6 "a never made q
more sacred spot lie nut tni- land here
for us in tho beginning and he Il 5 blessed
it ever since. We have had wonderful
success here, aud over 400 people have been
baptized in the sacred waters of New YorE
bay. Glory b. 10 God"
There Will be two or three meetings