The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-08
A SERVANTS FAITH
Refused to Work on Satur-
day, Claiming 1t Was
the Sabbath.
CONVERTED BY THE FAITHCURISTS
Discharged by Her Mistress, Who
Couldn't Stand Such
Nonsense.

The Faith Curists and the Seventh Day
Adventists are making many converts from
among the people of the Heights. Both Of
these denominations preach Sabbath keeping
the keeping holy of Saturday, the busiest
day of the week in the United States. Their
converts therefore are taught that it is
a sin to do any work on Saturday and those
that are true followers live closely to this be-
lieve and do only,,such things are as absolutely
necessary They go to meeting and eat but
do little else. The Seventh Day Adventists
do not keep the Sabbath as do the Faith
Curists. They will condescend to take a
trolley car, or cross the ferry, if necessary,
to attend meeting, while the Faith Curists
will do neither. Brother Jackson
of the Faith Curist Tabernacle,
when asked by a reporter If
they consider it sin to ride on the trolley
cars on the Sabbath, ;-"I don't believe
that any of our people would ride on them
from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday
night, for the Bible says that even the beasts
shall not work on the Sabbath" Among
others these two bodies have converted
a number of servant girls, These, when
they have become truly converted, have had
qualms of conscience about working on
Saturday and many of them have gone SO
far as to refuse to do so
WOULDN'T HAND OVER THE CHANGE.
somewhat peculiar case came under the
notice of a JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter,
that of a servant girl, who refused to work
on Saturday. She was employed by Mrs.
Harrison, of No. 35 Vaudeville avenue. She
has been going to the Faith Curist Taber-
n q md NuQc 1OT
by them sometime ago. 1t was not until last
Saturday though that she made any demon
Stratlon of her convictions. 1t seems that 1t
has been preying upon her mind for long
while that she has been desecrating the Sab
bath Saturday by working, and at last this
belief seized her so firmly that she, becoming
afraid of eternal punishment, decided to no
longer continue in her ''sin."
The first intimation that Mrs Harrison
had of her intentions was on Saturday last,
when the girl (Mrs Harrison would not dis
close her name) refused to take some change
from vender and hand it to her mistress.
Mrs. Harrison took it, and the girl explained
her action by saying that it is wicked to pass
money on the Sabbath. All day long she
refused to do any work, except the prepar-
ing of the meals, and when Mrs. Harrison
| demonstrated with her, the servant replied
| that she was not going to endanger her souls
salvation, even If she lost her situation.
| Mrs. Harrison reasoned with her, but all to
no avail. She was obdurate and would not
work.
THE GIRL DISCHARGED.
| At last her mistress became exasperated,
and gave her notice. The girl told her that
she will go to the Home at Mount Zion
| Sanctuary, and work there for nothing un-
til she can get situation in the home of
some person who observes the Sabbath.
| Mrs Harrison said that she had to dis
charge her as she could not keep girl who
would let all the Saturday word go undone:
i Mrs. Harrison tells a story about girl
| who is friend to the girl that she had to
discharge. She started one Friday evening
to visit her mother in Greenville. She
boarded trolley car, paid her fare and was
/ half way to Greenvill, when the booming OF
the sunset gun startled her. She became
| frightened and visions of eternal punish
ment danced before her eyes, for it was the
breaking of the Sabbath and she was travel
| ling ip a public conveyance and had paid for
| that privilege. She hesitated but a minute,
and then stopped the car and finished the
journey on foot.
These and similar cases illustrate the fana-
ticism of the Faith Curists and the ridiculous
side of their belief. People mot in the
light" as they choose to put it, laugh at
them and at their apparently strange ac-
| tions, while they firmly believe that before
many years the whole world will be doing
| as they do.
THE FAITH cURIsTs' HOME.
! A NEWS reporter called on Brother Jack
son and asked him if the Home they run in
Greenville is:for those who are thrown out OF
work through following the doctrines
taught by the Faith Curists He said:-"Not
exactly Most of those who lose their po-
sitions through following our Lords COM
mands, have homes of their own to go to.
Our home is for the INDECENT and those who
have no Homes. If, however, anyone suffers
persecution and has no place to go, we take
them in until they can find another situa-