The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-28
HE WON'T GO.
Evangelist Hill Expects to Re-
sumo His Meetings.
Hopes to Again Get Quinton
Heights School House.
POSITIVE IN DENIALS.
No Mesmerism or Hypn0tism in
His Services.
SAYS That ssthe Power' Is Not
Anything New.

Evangelist ]. F. C. Hill, who was pro-
hfbited from holding further religious
services in the Quinton Heights school
house because people of that commu-
nifty believed that he exercised a hyp-
motto power over those seeking salvation
In his meetings, seems to be determined
to continue his labors in Topeka He,
his wife and friends assert vigorously
that there is nothing in the hypnotic
charge against him. but that the devil
Is working in the hearts of a few peo-
pie. Mr.. Hill hints strongly that ne
may still be able to open h revival
81 again in the school house. Mrs Hill
says a person in the south part of town
proffered the use of his residence for the
meetings, but that it would be imprac-
teal to hold services in that way. and
she thought it would be an imposition
on the occupants of the dwelling. No
place has yet been selected for the fu-
ture meetings.
Hill says the statement that both
Miss Cope and Miss Long, who had been
Frustrated at the meetings, were absent
Thursday evening is an error; that Miss
Long was there and testified. Miss Cope
was seen at her home by a reporter,
and was not in attendance at the gath
ering that evening.
Hill further takes exceptions to re-
marks made about his hair. He says 1t
does not reach to his shoulders He
claims to have two good reasons why
he should allow it to grow to a little
greater length than the ordinary person
wears it. One is that his wife wants 1t
that way; and hints that men who
wear their hair short haven't much
brain. The other, because of hygienic
easOns- He says people bleed their
hair by continually cropping it off, and
that 1t was meant to be long as a pro-
lection for the head He believes that
n @--A- Sc bxr 1An0 hnfr@
He cites instances of our forefathers
wearing long hair, and thinks if 1t could
be tolerated then it can now.
In discussing the strange spell which
comes over those who attend the meet
ings, he and his wife designate it as
the power of God" and relate in
stances similar to those which occurred
in Topeka, from all over the country
where they have carried on their labors.
In Bowling Green. Ohio, several years
ago" said Mrs. Hill, "a lady came under
the power and remained so from some
time in the afternoon until early the
next morning" At another place where
the people were not receptive to their
preaching the owe went out into
the country and SO possessed men, wo-
men and children WHO afterward came
for miles to attend They say it is not
necessary for these manifestations to
religious conversion, but
that It is perfectly natural that they
should. In different persons the way in
which this potentiality shows itself va
ries. She SAYS she never fell to the
floor, but that under the mighty weight
IN her seat.
James BrinsmaId of ITO West Tenth
avenue, a precocious young man who for
the Union Sunday school which has been
held at the Quinton Heights school house.
and who is a leader in church and Chris
ton Endeavor work at the First Baptist
church says that at first he was in
their meetings. but since he has given
his support and believes that the charges
or hypnOtiSm or meSmerism are entirely
erroneous He relates in detail the pros
SUTTON + OF Mss Long on Wednesday night:
together and after a time each came un-
der the peculiar spell. He says that Miss
Long mad a. vision in which she beheld
herself and Miss Cope crossing a river of
blood. Before they had reached the shore
IoWard which they were. going, Miss
Longs companion was snatched away and
somehow a voice told her that Pearl was
SAFE Ihen she rega1ned consciousness.
inent worker in the First Baptist church.
has attended most of the meetings which
Key. and Mrs Hill conducted at Quinton
Heights. She says that she, too. was at
first angry at the ~evangelists. But after
hearing them a few nights she went over
holding. up their hands She likewise came
under the mysterious power and was pros
rated twice IN the same evening. After
going, to the altar. she says, she sank to
sne MOOR and after a great spiritual
would seem that she were partially cog
u1zdnL OF ner ~cOnd1JlOn. she leaped to her
feet. and, raising her hands. said her sur
render to God was complete Evangelist
Hill lays the first time she was under
the power for SIS minutes. Then after she
stood up for two minutes she again top
pied over, and was in the trance for about
- tut She is satisfied she secured
satisfaction and certain that it was only
the divine power under which she weak
ened and fell
The e~vangelists insist that this exhibit
ton OF supernatural power is nothing new
in the. history of religious work. They
relate how certain ministers in the south
years g were holding meetings at which
the aggregation sinners and all were
slain by the spirit" They summon in
stances in the experience of Wesley. Cod
hey and Lorenzo Dow in which the same
occurrences took place