Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-12-28
GROWING WILDER.
Orgies of s.Tongues of Fire. at
Salem.

men OF cancers are onlv ordinary
| little stunts at the Penticostal
mission, where the sTonguers''
hold their nightly orgies and
claim to get power from the
Holy Ghost to speak in foreign
languages and to write messages
in unknown tongues.
| They claim they will soon
have power to raise the dead aud
no doubt they will try to perform
this miracle aud are only waiting
for on appropriate corpse tc show
up.
Saturday night Mrs. c. w.
Irwin, of Dallas, during one Of
the most strenuous periods Of the
meeting. while Sister Wiley, the
yellow girl from Los Angeles,
was chanting a wierd hymn OF
her own manufacture, arose from
her seat and said her eyes were
in horrible fix, that they pain-
ed her fearfully and she was al
| most blind and that she wanted
! to be healed.
"Heal me now, heal me now!'
she shrieked, as she fell PROSTATE
at the dias. Mr.. Ryan was at
that time doing stunt in San
scrit stenography for the Holy
Spirit and he remained oblivious
to Mrs. Irvin's suffering and kept
pegging away at his hieroglv-
phics. Mary Hanson, the little
girl medium, was seated at the
opposite end of the platform and
her spas1nodic jerks with the di-
vine pencil grew all the
more rapid. She was taking
down a hymn in Hebrew.
When Mrs. Irwin got down at
the altar, Sister Glasco, the big
Portland negress; Brother Will
liams, the young soft-spoken
evangelist from California; Sister
Wiley, the star singer, and Sis.
ter Crawford, from Los Angeles,
crowded around and laid their
hands on the blind woman's
head and all of them began to
pray in loud voice.
Mrs. Irwin jumped up in a few
moments and began to shout and
pray and declared that she had
been instantly cured.
Mrs. Crawford's little girl tod
an incoherent story about the
Holy Ghost curing her of the
after-efects of diphtheria aud
her mother took the floor and
elaborated on the alleged mira
Gle.
Edward Smith OF Dallas is in
almost daily attendance at the
meetings. He tclaims that he
has had one of the most marvel
Gus cures on record.
They assert that Mr.. Smith
was afflicted with cancer that
was pronounced incurable by the
physicians and that he had the
'ssaints,' as they term them
s-lves, pray over him, lay hands
on his head and anoint him with
oil and that almost in the
twinkling of an eye the cancer
dried up and fell out of his face,
leaving only a hole in his coun-
tenance.
The little Hanson girl who is
Emore completely under the domi-
nation of the leaders than any of
the others, said in public talk
Saturday night, that she expect
ed this would cost her life, but
that she was willing to sacrifice
lit. She does three or four hour
tasks at rapid writing in un-
known tongues aud during all
This time her right hand is going
at the most rapid motion posi-
BILE. All the while she seems to
be in trance, her eyes wild and
lusterless and her face Redeemed
with an unnatural flush and her
nerves completely unstrung.
Mrs. Crawford claims that she
has the power to swallow any
kind of poison without injury to
herself and that when any one
has been baptized with the Holy
Ghost and with fire, poisons will
have no eff -ct on them and that
they may be raised from the
dead.
It would-ereate no surprise il
some of the more deluded of the