Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13

peculiar exhortat1ons OF the frenzled CONF
verts and their brethren were feature Of
the exercises. Rev. "Sun-do-Move" Jasper
is a central figure of the great revival
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPArcHh
RICHMOND, VA, May 12.-To-dF by II
o'clock Richmond was almost without an
adult negro inhabitant. The entire black
population had gone to the banks Of the
James river, to witness the biggest baptism
ever known among the col6red churches.
About 300 were put under the water, and
many more are to follow.
This is the first result of the unpre-
cedented revival going on here for three
weeks in the darkey churches. The scenes
during the past week eliminated yesterday
and last night in suoh wild chantings to the
accompaniment of Aandshaking as to render
sleep impossible jim many sections of the
city, the red hot weather seeming to add to
the intensity Igf their religious fervor. No
colored person, no matter how irreligious,
dares refuse taking the hand of a just con-
verted, though this necessitates pump
handle movement until the religionist re-
lates thslong story Of visions he has seen
leadingup to his conversion.
ALL-NIGHT DEvoTIoNs.
So, rp into the small hours the loud sing
ing ofexperience went on, the voice of the
chanter getting a peculiar staccato as it
favored in accordance with the vigor of the
movement Of the right hand of brotherhood.
The DISPATCH correspondent, standing
under window at I o'clock this morning,
could catch from three different points such
song lines as this: IT got de ole satyn in
dis lef ham, and gwine to hole him, too;
an in dis right ham got de righteous
sword wha'r I gwine to hole, too; an ole
satyn may call and ole satyn may cry, but I
done wild him."
Then the voice of another brother, Just as
happy and impatient to relate his expe-
rience, broke in: "Hol' him down, hol' him
down; an de Lamb said to me. gwine to
sot you free, de chains all of, de shackles
done broke; you done got out of big damna-
tom Dom hoo. Thank you, sweet Jesus"
A FRENzIED FEMALES CRY.
This relater's song was broken into by the
ringing voice of a female, wrought up to
frenzy as she shrieked: "Thank God, thank
God, }my Jesus has come to me. He did.
He said, Sister, want you He did.
said, Yes, sweet Lamb 1 did. He said,
Don wonder no MOI He said, 'Deliverer
of life, right at yo' foot. De crystal water
splashin' by 20 knee; take off dem chains
and put on white robes Thank God,
thank God"
Thus it was kept up. In many instances
10 minutes time are consumed in shaking
on9 person by the hand and relating their
vifon.
By daylight this morning the entire pop
ul stion was up preparing to attend this
urIIon baptism which was to begin at 1880.
Til crowd in attendance is estimated at
frdn %, 900 to 80, 900. The converts marched
in procession through the streets, many of
tn women wearing white robes, some of the
nj opulent attired in directoire gowns.
sUN-Do-MovE JASPER IN 1T.
fRev. John Jasper, the invincible anti
Satan slugger who has regularly, once a
Ihonth, hurled the moving sun among his
missiles at the arch-enemy, lowered six feet
one above the vast concourse, and though II
years old, his voice is the strongest and his
foll of converts the largest.
! The three ministers stood in the river,
three lines of penitents moving to them at q
time, and the groans and shouts, the ecstatic
ejaculations that rolled over this vast null
titude, surpassed ANYTHING Of the kind ever
heard in Richmond before. The police. in
order to prevent disaster, mad to scatter the
crowds from the bridge. Hundreds were
not able to get in sight of the water. This
is onlv the bepinninp of similar bantisms