The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-25
THE CRUnPLERC CRAZE
Sends Six Persons to the In
sane Asylum.
q NEW SCHLATTER
Preacher Of Standardization
Who Has Hypnotic Power.
peonIa Fall in a Trance at His Meetings
Doctrine Has Swept wayne
County Like Wid-Fire.

N'Ny
civ nersons ave been brought to the
Insane ASYLUM here in the last two
months who lost their reason through
an Evangelist who has been preach
ing the doctrine of 'sanctiticatlon.
They are persons of more or less
prominence, and all of them are from
one section.
For two or three months Wayne
county has been stirred from Uolos-
boro to it's remotest confines by the
preaching of an evangelist nalAee
Crumpler. This man is a natNe VI
Wavne county, and not until TecehUly
did he manifest the unuSual po"cl
that has swept over the county. ne 40
said TO have been a deVout MetnouisU
Some members of the Methouls'
church hold the belief that one can
in this life receive two splrltual oless-
mos or "awakenings," the nfst oelns
conversion or the new blrth OF tile
soul from sin unto life;" and the
second, sanctification or the purinca-
ton to perfection. Some OF them
even 90 so far as to hold that a person
Who has received this second bless
mo-. cannot commit sin. There are
various shades of this belief, but ali
.sanctifed" in the present life. 1t VIII
he remembered that Rev. DIR. Cara
dine of Missouri, who conducted
meeting in Raleigh two years ago,
preached this doctrine in a moderate
form. and at the time this city was
much stirred up over the teaching.
IT i this doctrine of sanctiticatlon
that seems to have run through the
town of GoIdsboro and the county OF
Wayne like wild-fire and to have spread
into adjoining communities.
Evangelist Crumpler seems to pos
sess a strange power of hynotism by
which he sways his audiences. ms
with the doctrine he breaches with
such fiery zeal make up comblna-
ton that is impressive. He has i'm
pressed himself so strongly on his
hearers that some have had their
minds turned aside from normal af-
fairs. and have lost their reason.
CRUMPLER THE MAN.
A strange power possesses this man,
unlettered and puprepossesslng IN APP
pearance. He uses strong language,
cast here and there in slang phrases,
with metaphors that blaze and threat
en-. In his appearance there is moth
ING out OF TIE COIlliOtls Oh
rather beneath the usual. A stout man
of low stature, clean-shaven.
LAY IN A TRANCE
After one of his lurid harangues
sometimes ten or fifteen persons, men
and women, would be left lying on the
floor in a dead trance. They would
arise, after the trance passed away,
shouting and singing hymns.
NH foil Jf,fn q
trance at one of his meetings, told of
marvellous things she had seen, and
claimed to have communed with the
spirit world.
These strange manifestations have
not occurred once only, but dozens of
times.
Physicians who called the occur
rences Authorizations have examined
into thecases and become converts.
A strange spell seems to have been
thrown over the community by this
North Carolina prototype of ''Schlat-
ter the Healer"
He has caused trouble in the church
es. A prominent Baptist of this city
this week received a letter from
Goldsboro Baptist telling of havoc that
had been wrought among the
members of the Baptist and Methodist
churches in that place.
SCrumpler is now preaching at Rose
Hill, in Wayne county.
ONE OF HIS VICTIMS.
Mr.. Richard Holmes, a prominent
citizen of Clinton, who has just been
brought to the asylum for treatment,
is one of the victims of the craze. He
seems to be dazed as if in a trance. 1t
is hoped that the trouble may soon
pass away and that Mr.. Holmes will
be restored to his right mind.
He is the sixth patient now being
treated at the Asylum here for the
Crumpler craze.
PICNIC AT fuckers POND.