Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-27

KEPT THEIR APPoINTMENT..Qnite
. crowd assembled at the foot OF hing
S,rcet Yesterday afternoon expecting 10
witness some excitement Which IL WAS ":
thought would be produced by a COLI
SION between the police and the Free
Wntbodists who had announced their
termination to mold another open-air
,neetino in that neighborhood. The
hnI,,. ofthree o'clock drew on (the time
,,Snallv set for the meetings), and some
80, 10 think the crusade would be
a"6snfoned but few minutes past that
bonr three men, two women and
,bree-year-old child Of that persuasion
tmrned into King street from Lee, They
s ~, not however. station themselves at
t tba strand, as the individual in the po'
lice court last Monday had so stlpuiat-
ed. but took up position III IHlo1
strae, 4 few steps south OF King, ana
tbcra opened their batteries on things
in general. The first speaker (Whose
translation TO heaven would be a SfeaI
.eIirf to the community enlightened
The tbeolocians in the crowd by refer
RING to this era as the nineteenth as
,,c1 @ and then began to stumble
through portion OF the Bible, when
an If hammered locomotive OF the
nhogn pattern proceeded down tas
track. Kissing and rumbiing and ciahk-
ing is bell at deafening rate, com,
pletelv monopolizing the attention OF
all who had ears 10 hear. This annoy
90 o,.rr the street ears, with the
alarm and conductors bells gong at
The sane time, proved further mpi!iers
to the speakers voice, and about the
time they had disgorgcd their passeh-
GERS. reloaded and started up the street
;he steamer Wakefield, equally
az discourteous, began 10 emit
nurplus steam with volcanic vigor.
Undauuted, however, the characters IN
the hebdomadary performance perse-
yered. Sunday travelling and carotis-
Tag. liquor dealers, makers aud drink
era we're denounced in terms 10 Vi@or-
ous that The Author OF ChristisGity
Himself would have been in 4 hot spop
If the speaker had been about when he
turned the water into wine at the mar
,.iAge in Cana of Galilcc or when he pass
I'd the cup around at the institution oil
the last supper One of the speakers
(who made the people tired said he
would in no wise be astonished to see
this old burg" meet the fate OF Sodom
and GUmorrah in fact ne believed that
were it not for the few righteous III Old
Belle Haven Ut was supposed he meant
himself aud the c0rporai's guard Win
him) she would long since have been
where the cities of the plain are to-day
under the Dead Sea. Horrible
thought Ten just people would have
saved those ill-tated cities, we are told.
If an equa! number are Withholding
shower of birthstone from us they
should be brought TO the front ut once
and canonized while they are olive.
The assembage (the largest these ez-
horters eyer drew finally thinned out
as they realized nothing sensational
was to occur, and the speakers having
used their lungs for all they were worth
later retraced their steps 10 the places
from whentc they came. 1t is but just
to state that Rev. Mr.. I4aning, the
minister in charge of the Free Metho-
dist Church in this city land who alone
has the right to call meetings. is a sen
sible Christian gentleman. He is in no
wise responsible for the unauthorized
or independent procedures OF certain
radical members of his congregation.
He is regularly accredited and ordain-
ed minister and believesi in doing every
thing decently and in order, and hence
deplores any attacks on or insolence
toward those who may differ with him
in his religious convictions. He, Of
course, was not one of the party on the
street yesterday.