The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-08
IN A RELIGIOUS FRENZY.
EXCITING SCENES AT DR.. SIMPSONS
OLD ORCHARD MEETING.

ut was Experience and AnointinE Dny-
Hundreds Testified to Strange ''Curer- By
bones set by Prayer-rur
buisnoo or tho M~eetinE-Many Girts To-day.
OLD ORCHARD, Me-, Aug. This Rev. Dr.
Simpsons Christian Alliance Convention, 10
usual attended by immense crowds, has held
its last meeting before foreign missionary day
and the day OF the annual Offering. Last year
this collection reached S4o.O 600. Tomorrow d..
Simpson hopes to get 800, 900.
To-day there occurred the e testimony meet
ing" and the ceremony OF Amounting" which
to the converts of sufficient faith ia supposed 10
heal all the ills that flesh is heir to. These
meetings were held in the crowded taber-
nacle. Thousands of people. unable to gain
admission, held praise services In the grove ont.
side. Tho adherents OF the alliance movement
were out in force at the testimony meeting
TO hear witnesses to the wonderful cures Of
mind and body wrought in the faithful
by the power Of the spirit. The Rev.
DR.. Henry Wilson of New York led
II, himself cured years ago here. as he says. Of
chronic dyspepsia by the laying on of hands,"
The meeting began quietly enough, but before
1t ended the participants had reached q state Of
religious fervor. strongly suggestive in its
boisterousness Of the old-fashioned negro re-
vival. Tho cloud Of witnesses" as DR.. Wilson
termed them when the enthusiasm had reached
its height, almost tumbled over each other In
their anxiety to testify to cures by faith.
DR.. Wilson plainly endeavored to limit each
witness of the divine truth" to two minuteu.
but he might as well have tried to alter the
courses of the stars. Worked up to a state of
their feet. loudly prociaiming their personal
faith and experience. Some Of the expressions
S xsii il aiH,Sos; M 70 ne G an 1hsa seemed 'A'Fil's''u'
"c uGH1 T Hiah ;b 81 Hd 5ise sSoss, &C., E @stitl T .o 5s GSs,-
= qnp,a nipnpl~ nyprnoainp, ohovtad a,f .,.iA
1aHo d u iSut Hold u ap i'e Cut SGnE i short, Pray TO,
F iae @i@ shouted G.sa saf Dr. ~S Wilson, t as he tor r. inH u tri.S
to limit the time consumed By the WITNESSES,
up the %spiriI,'!S yeisd an aged brother from g
Boydoinh.m. Ne, who had been cured Of seT;
how happy he was in his faith u 'es'n Tell
After q run OF rambling religious enthusiasm
vert. T The s @ahss 81 wonderful 90 sa9an eur Ise Of ffa niSd G smS
body came with lightning rapidity from scoI .
and scores Of mon and women. Most all the ills Of
the human family were reported cured by the
spirit, from irritable tempers to malignant cam
Ger and deadly Bright'e disease and consump-
set., and perfect results obtained BY prayer alone.
from death four times BY faith. She wore the
tool, the Holy Ghost for my o~oculist." she
cried; r! nsed no glasses now"
Of glory. l was told TO 20 to a surgeon, and I
got jesus God raised a lump in my throat and
cut 1t Oh. 1t took no knife The Holy Ghost IL
Mrs. CLARK, Mother Clark" of New York.
broke her wrist. she said. last year. God set tho
bone.
1T 10 perfect now" she said: See it. had
terrible Inflammation on Tuesday. ! sent word
to the convention for prayer. While you prayed
Mrs. Fuller, q missionary from India, said tho
Great Physician was at work there. She told Of
n dropsical native who got right with God. She
went to bed with her skin hanging and bones
protruding. She put her case in Jesus's banda,
and got up in the morning q well woman
This statement was greeted with tremendous
approval
50 the meeting went on and on; Miracu:
be heard. A score OF people were talk.
Ing at once. Frequent and mighty shou-s
Of amen would 60 around the hall. Then
some one would leap to his feet and
start . gospel hymn, which would be caught %
IN n lusty chorus. When the meeting closed
there were still witnesses anxious to be heard.
The amounting service followed. participated
in by nearly two hundred. The great grove
will contain upward Of 10000 people tomorrow,
when DR.. Simpson makes his great appeal.
to pour in.