The news & observer., 1897-07-18

had seen and heard. | will not undertake
to tell this, it would take too long.
About O'Clock, at the suggestion Of
Brother Curtis Hughes, | called for peni-
tents and they dropped at the altar like
they were shot. BY a little after sun
rise, something over an hour, seven had
been converted and eight eanctifed.
This trance was not put on, for Miss
Russell has never been on the stage, and
do not believe the actress has yet been
born who could act it. Besides, | put
my finger on her eye and pinched her
arm, and she paid no attention to it
whatever. 1t was not nervous prostra-
ton, for nervous prostration cannot do
and say what she did. Her pulse was
good, though weaker toward the last.
Her hands and wrists were cool and
limp, while her face was about normal.
SECOND TRANCE.
While l write | have before me
Touching Incidents and Remarkable
Answers to Prayer" in which | find ac-
counts Of four frances:
/. A three days trance of VIM. Ten
nant, a co-laborer of Mr.. Whitfield, re-
lated by his biographer prior to 1878.
2 The trance of Miss D, which
lasted nearly a week, related by the "late
Robert Young, the missionary" and pub
hshed hy the Evangelical Publishing Co.,
in tract entitled, "A Vision of He'll"
3. Trance of IS. T. related by
Mr.. Wesley, in his journal of August,
1746.
4. Trance of Alice Miller recorded by
Mr.. Wesley, in his journal August 6,
1859. AS the last is short, and some
what resembles the one I have given
above, copy it here for republication:
about five in the afternoon l heard
them singing hymns. Soon after Mr.. B.
came up and told me that Alice Miller
was fallen in trance. | went down
Immediately, and found her sitting on a
stool, and leaning against the wall, with
her eyes open and fixed upward. | made
a motion as if going to strike, but they
continued immovable. Her face showed
an unspeakable mixture of reverence and
love, while silent tears stole down her
cheeks Her lips were 81 little open, and
sometimes moved but not enough to
cause any sound. / do not know whether
| ever saw human face look so beauti-
full; sometimes it was covered with
smile, as from joy, mixed with love and
reverence, but the tears fell still, though
not so fast.
"In about half an hour | observed her
countenace change into the form of fear,
pity and distress, then she burst into a
flood of tears, and cried out: Dear Lord,
they will be damned! they will all be
damned! But in about five minutes her
smiles returned, and only love and joy
ho1f hn,
after six. l observed distress take place
again; and soon after she wept bitterly,
and cried out: Dear Lord, they will go
to hell! the world will go to hell! Soon
after she said: Cry aloud! spare not!
And in a few moments her look was
composed again, and spoke a mixture of
reverence, joy and love. Then she said
aloud: Give God the glory About seven
her senses returned. / asked: Where
have you beenT Il have been with my
Savior In heaven, or on earth" L
canot tell; but / was in glory Why did
you cry? Not for myself, but for the
world; for / saw they were ON the brink
Of hell Whom did you desire to give
the glory to God? Ministers, that cry
aloud to the world; else they will be
proud and then God will leave them,
and they will lose their own souls
Sincerely,
GEO. r. SIMMONS.
T. S.-After Miss Russell came to her
self, / asked: How about the doctrine
Of sanctifcationT' ''Thats all right,
don't you preach anything else; there are
none in heaven but the sanctifed." Must
| not preach repentance and regenera-
ton ~ eyes but these are stems which
lead to sanctifcation. G. L. s.