Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-08
WERE NOT MORMONS.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE DOCTRINE
BEING PREACHED IN FULTON.
An Interview with One OF Thcir Converts
Strong Testimony that tho Evan
geiists are Doing Good.

| rs mucn comlneht was created Dy men,
ton in the Dispatch few days ago that q
letter had been received by the Mayor
charging that two men were promulgating
Mormon doctrines at Kerse's Hall in Full
ton, a reporter of thispaper was sent TO that
locality yesterday TO interview the
Elders IL possible.
Having learned that tho persons whom
| he was ia search of board with Mr.. Wiley
Hood, reputable boiler-maker, who re-
sides on the corner of Fulton and Lewis
streets. the Dispatch reporter went to Mr..
| Hoods home and was pleasantly received
| at the door by a lady, apparently some
| twenty-five years OF age, who proved to DO
| Mrs. Hood. and who upon learning the re-
! porter's business informed him that the
two gentlemen had left the city for West
| Point, whore they thought the Lord had
called them.
In the mean time a more elderly lady
| had also come to the door and volunteered
| the remark that the reports in circulation
had been put out by members of denomi-
nation who wished to injure the new
preachers, who had estranged some
of the members of their congre-
cations. In reply. TO a. question
from the reporter Mrs. Hood said the
preachers were not Mormons; that she was
one OF their converts that she was per-
fectly willing TO be interviewed If the in
teryiew would result in doing good or
bringing one soul to Jesus Christ, and that
she had no objection to her name being
| used.
TIE PREACHERS NAMES.
1.-THE preachers" continued Mrs. Hood,
"are splendid men. They are not college,
bred, but are fairly well educated and in
formed and are possessed of the. spirit.
NJ Af
delphia, and Mr.. Alexander Lamb, of New
York. When they were shown the article
in the Dispatch they said they counted 1t
worthy to suffer shame for the cause OF
the Lord Jesus Christ. Do not call them
reverends. but plain misters," added Mrs.
Hood.
THEIR CREED.
"What is their creed?" asked the re-
porter.
As to that" replied Mrs. Hood, it is
this" pointing to O Bible. I'VE call our
selves Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ
We break bread every Sunday, and here 10
my authority for i'll. Corinthians, 18th
chapter. We have meetings at Kerse's Hall
every Sunday at 1890 A. II. These we call
Gospel Meetings. Sunday school takes
place at z. NJ, and there is also service
at o'clock. Tell everybody to come. !
would to God everybody in Fulton would
attend. l wish l could see Kerse's Hall
rammed and packed from the back wall TO
the front doors"
There are about twenty-five or thirty
members.
NO CREDENTIALS But THE BIBLE.
"These men have no credentials but this
Bible" holding II in her hand. Yes, we
have organizations in Philadelphia, New
York, and hold conferences in Philadel-
pha yearly. but we have no connection
with the Salvation Army. We baptize by
immersion like the Baptists. used TO be-
long to the Baptist church and thought /
was saved, but was not until | joined this
new society. / know am saved now and
feel so happy. Are you saved? L hope
YOU are. Here are some tracts. Take
them and read them and distribute them
to the Dispatch people If you want them
saved BY the way, we open our service
with prayer and then q hymn and then we
talk"
WOMEN DO NOT SPEAK.
women do not speak in our meetings."
Mrs Hood went on to say, NOR should
they, and / will prove it. Read I'd chap
ter Of 1st Timothy and you will sec that
women must learn in silence with all sub
lection. We do not call our daily rite
communion, but breaking Bread and use
wine with the bread. Can't you come and
hear us tomorrow? although Messrs.
Beveridge and Lamb will not be here, as
they have gone away to West Point, and
do not know when they will come back,
which may not be at all If the Lord wills
otherwise. l think they will come. My
husband does not belong to any church. l
wish he was saved.
GLAD TO TALK TO ANYBODY.
ave are glad to talk to anybody, and
particularly to ministers, resumed the
lady. Mr.. Bradford, of New. York, and
Mr.. Alexander Waugh, of Cleveland, Ohio,
will conduct services tomorrow. BY all
means come and be with US.
Don't think that Messrs. Beverage
and Lamb rar away on account of that
publication in the Dispatch. They did no
such thing. They had made arrangements
to leave before its appearance. These
gentlemen have no objection to earning
their bread by the sweat of their brows.
They are willing TO work by day and
preach at night. See here she. e1-
the centre-table and read where Paul
worked in the day and preached at
night. - was raised in Henrico county,
and was a member of Four-Mile Creek
church. The Methodists started this re-
port about Mormonism. We don't take
up any collection save to pay expenses Tor
the rent of the hall. We don't beg people
for money during Gospel services"
"Sam Jones'" chimed in the other lady,
"is no child of God; if he was he would
not run on so much foclishness. / wish
Fulton was full of Mormons. as you call
them, like these good men,"
THOROUGHLY IN EARNEST.
Mrs. Hood was thoroughly in earnest,
and anxious that her faith should spread
throughout the world; in fact, she is an
enthusiast in the cause, and seemed deeply
imbued with the spirit of religion. A
striking characteristic was disposition to
prove every assertion made by naming a
verse and chapter Of the Bible. Upon her
comfortable were several books, all OF
charaeter-such Us Scripture
Testimony" and the Life of Whitfield
and her house and surroundings indicated
that she was person of methodical habits
and neatness.
THEY ARE DOING GOOD.
Captain John @. Gibson, at one time q
resident Of Fulton and at present engaged
in business in that section, said he took
pleasure in testifyinR to the good that
these'people had been doing for that quar-
ter of the city. They had reached GER
tain element he had never before known to
be touched by anything said from any
pulpit. and who indeed never attended
church at all. People whom he had
often seen drunk on the streets Satur-
day nights and Sunday mornings he
now saw going to church with their hymn
books and Bibles in their hands. In fact,
he thought he had men in his employment
who had been benefited through their
He knew of good that had
been done by them and nothing bad-but
was not prepared TO say whether they were
Mormons or not, as he had not attended
their meetings. Upon reading the mention
of the letter containing charges against
them he had thought of writing something
to the Dispatch on the subject.
Neither of the ministers are married.