The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-16

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to..psa more than ti0O worth NJ property.
,her rhov re Socialists. too. They're not
~ rcmlrkablo for their notions 90 for
,hsir manner ~ expressing them.
when a SrN reporter got INTO Crosby Hall
m Thursday nj ght about sixty or seventy
PERSONS we're paytng shocked. amused.
summed and reverent attention. .respec-
lively TO Mrs. r. L. Harvey, who was
snging Mira Harvey Ia n rather sweet
faced woman 81 IS or 30, who was dressed
roaily In n white shirt waist and black
skirt and wore her pretty brown hair
brushed straight back from her forehead
and tod up at the back of her hend In q
hun. She might have been president Of
an Fnworth League. This In abe was
singing
oh. then I csme 70 Jericho.
And the walls they we're so high
gave a shout and down they came.
And the Canaanites did ~.
or. I'm a halleluiah Christianl
I'm so happy all the time:
Using and shout and leap for Joy.
And. oh, 1t is sublime,
Imet the giants Of the land
They were 80 big and tall
pierced them with the sword OF truth
r And the Anakims did fall.
Oh. I'm a halleluiah ChrlStiani
I'm so happy all the time;
sing and shout and leap for 10y,
And, oh. IL is sublime.
Sister Harvey would sometimes clap her
hands and leap two feet into the air.
Wow" shrieked the sister. "Whee-ee.
And. oh. it ia sublime!"
At this point the occupants OF the front
two rows Of seats. where the faithful were
clustered. o up the chorus and roared
II ont at the tops OF their voices.
Sister Millipan leaped from her chair,
seized Sister Harvey about the waist and
the pair did a chase or two clear across
the floor between the platform and the
'Whee-ee-ee Hi-ee-ee! Wow-ow-ow'" All
the while the faithful kept roaring
I'm a halleleujah Chrtstisn
And on! il is sublime.
Up on the platform a smooth faced
man dropped to his knees and peat the
seat Of his chair with his forehead. Two
blond and bearded citizens who had been
sitting beside him hoped up as II they
leaned into the air, waving their arms
and cracking their heels together and
shouting: "Wh-e-o-u! Glory Glory!
W~hoon-e-e!" and the faithful in the front
seats kept pounding the floor with their
bots and slapping their hands together
and singing:
I'm a halleleujah Christian
And oh! IL Is sublime.
Pretty soon Sister Harvey began to pray, |
her rather sharp voice rising occasionally
to screech, but never falling below a yell, |
her petitions and thanksgivings being
pnnctuated by sooradio Vowel and
'Whoon-ees'"
While she prayed one Of the blond
slowly around, anchoring himself with his
left foot and %propelling himself with his
right. An aged, white haired man with
a patriarchal beard and gold bowed spec
and sat upon the floor in the attitude Of a
child making mud pies, The smooth
faced man on the platform still beat his head
on the chair.
After Sister Harvey had concluded her
petitions with an incredibly piercing shrek
The Rev, F. L. Harvey. stopped beating
his head on the chair and came down from
the platform to talk. The Rev. Mr.. Harvey
books like a shrewd but kindly Yankee
grocer, He wore a dark sack suit, a colored
celluloid collar. and the reason for this pre-
caution became apparent when he began
to warm In. No other collar would have
stood it.. Yet when he finished, 10! there
was tnat CellllOl0 collar as wnlte and StlU
and shiny as whep he began. II was
marvellous.
The Rev. Mr.. Harvey in the course OF his
talk personated a fisherman, a grave digger,
a Wall street broker. q f~1oorwalker. a Bishop
and the devil dumping New York into
hell. He was good ir all, but especially
good as the devil. He told how Lucifer
fell;
When that angel got to looking into
some If those fine looking glasses they
have up there and saw how pretty he was,
he got an ambition to be God himself. Then
they threw him heels over head down to
The earth. God steps out onto the balcony
and saws: 'Wo t. the inhabitants of the
'arth because the DEVILS gone there
I love to think Of a place where there's
no devil, but that means I hate to think
OF Chicago. That'c the vickedest place on
earth
From the devil the Rev. Mr.. Harvey
passed 10 the deterioration II modern
methods NJ achieving salvation:
I like To see folks drop like lead men,
ne shouted, and the preaching Of the
eeosreI will bring about those resuts.'
The Rev. Harvey climbed uDon a chair.
II, Don't tell me God won't save men now
IKE he did loo years ago. What's the
matter that methods have changed? The
nevis got in it. II | went into a church