The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-21
THE HOLINESS MEETING
WE, DON AND CHARLOTTE COM
PARED RESPECTIVELY 10
HEAVEN AND HELL.


Peter Snipes breaches --"1xper'-
ences 1.-The Fatal End of Mar
Who Drank Brandy Meeting To-
Night.
And after four or five of the breth
rem had passed in and cut among the
congregation-with their hats they
met again at the preachers platform
and emptied all the nickels and other
coins into one hat. And one of the
brethren passed over the whole hat
to the preacher who received the col
lection in his two hands. 10 AVOID
being conspicuous about it, he trans
ferred the collection to his pants
pocket, one handful at time. Inc
meeting had started and the preacher
had said that he might as well tel
the truth about tit took money to
live and TO keep the tent a'going. lie
even said that he expected to become
a citizen of Raleigh as soon as ne couid
pet the money to move his family here
and asked everybody to raise his hand
who was willing to give him a dollar
sometime before next Saturday night.
There being only one taller, he made
it half-dollar. which, though tr1fie
more popular, did nor prove to be IN
the nature of a popular loan. The
preacher asked all who would promise
to give anything to stand, and there
was quite a sprink1ng.
One-half of the congregation was
composed of white people and one-half
of colored people. The meeting was
held last night in the tent, corner
Person and Cabarrus streets-a Holl-
ness meeting which Mr.. Williams, of
South Carolina, has been conducting
for some three weeks Mr.. Williams
is a mildish-mannered man, preaching
the doctrine of Sanctification. He said
he had heard ofsome people going crazy
about it, but that they had gone crazy
about something else, and even it they
had gone crazy about Sanctification-if
man had to go crazy, religion was
the best thing to go crazy on. Mr.
Williams said there was u coloreS
brother on the stand who would speak
to the meetiHg-a man who drove the
streets of Raleigh every day, a man
whom God had blessed with lungs, so
that he could he heard of the Lord.
This mans name was Peter SnipeS,
who stepped forth from the midst OF
those on the platform, all of whom
were colored, together forming the
choir.
Snipes explained the difference be-
tween justification and Sanctihcation,
saying one meant forgiveness of sins
committed, and the other of sins in
herited-the one of external sin, the
other of internal carnal sin. He had
a colored brother on the platform to
read during his pauses, marked ex-
tracts from the Bible. For example,
during one pause, he remarked: Give
us Peter." and the brother read from
Peter. SnipeS grew warm over his sub
ject, and spoke well. Old Uncle
Logan" who stays at he Marlborough,
was one of the high-sitters, and later
went up to the altar to get sanctified.
Quite a number went up to the
altar-all colored-and among them
two women and one man prayed while
they knelt.
After the kneeling, testimony was
called for. One sister said she had
done all her badness from the time
she was ten until she was sixteen years
old, and for 81 years she had turned
her back on hell-''it was rough
word" she said, but she had. She
walked up and down in front, with
her specks on, and said she would
close with a parable: Suppose she
exclaimed, that you were a'goin' to
Weldon, and when you got
to your journeys end, you found
you were in Charlotte, you
would try TO git back to Weldon agin.'
So it was when you started to heaven.
You might wake up and find you were
in hell, unless somebody put you right.
From all of which the lesson was
plain that all free silver folks the only
politically sanctified, should steer
clear of Charlotte and Joe Caldwell's
gold paper, and make straight for the
Weldon country. This parable
brought forth many "Amens
A nervous looking mulatto girl was
the next to come forward. She was
in the choir, and had been the one
who lead the hymn following the re-
quest of Mr.. Williams for money. She
had sung the most appropriate hymn:
Help us a little! Help us just lit
tle!s Maybe that was the reason all
seemed to help so little" She came
forward and said she felt happy, and
insisted on it, and started the hymn,
II am so Happy" and she went into
wild gesticulations Of JOY. The next
sister was more demonstratiye. She
told her experience, and threw her
head back, her hat went off, and she
uttered piercing shriek-then she
went through side-shuffie with her
hips, and am open-and-shut with her
knees, which was punctuated with
more shrields and shouts and hand
elaps. The meeting was a. movin'
along; it was a sproutin. A brother
told how he had warned others against
drink until they had been stricken
down in death--one had been killed
by an engine that was running
threshing machine. Another man had
died so full of brandy that the brandy
run out of the coffin. When the cof-
fin was carried into church, there was
so much brandy, that it was the best
smelling corpse he ever saw. (Amens.)
just ait this iuncture, another broth
er, away in the rear, started up. "Oh,
I'll wear a starry crown over there."
and there was in the rhythmic move
Yeaaindg GER