Evening journal., 1906-07-05
HOLY JUMPERS
INVADE BROOKLYN
Some PeCuIiaritieS Of the
Burning Bu.h Missionary
Convention

The Holy Jumpers have hit Brooklyn. !
They boast that they were chased out
Of Boston for preaching against sin,
but in the light of what went on in
Crosby hall, Classon avenue, one night
recently. it seems more probable that
it was for promoting a riot, says the
New York sun.
Crosby hall is located in a some
what retired section OF Brooklyn. over
steam laundry. II is a difficult mat
ter to seclude dolngs like those of the
Holy Jumpers. yet Crosby hall does It,
1t is just as well, perhaps, for the
Jumpers for they might he pinched on
Broadway.
Burning Bush Holiness Missionary
convention is what the Holy Jumpers
call it. It's been going on, afternoon
and evening. for some days and Will
continue for some time yet IL the folks
in the laundry don't kick
ITS pretty fierce sometimes" said
one OF the girls who was a collar poll
Usher IAN it's a Gods moicy we don't
have to work nights. Sometimes you'd
be willin' to swear the ceilln' was COM
in down."
The Holiness outfit believe I'm a per-
sonal devil that's loahng about to get
you If you don't look sharp and in
hell fire-hot hell hre-wlth sulphur In
it, the kind that Adoniram Judson used
to preach about II it's socialism to
hold that nobody should possess more
than 500 worth OF property. then
they're Socialists, too. They're not so
remarkable for their notions as for
their manner Of expressing them.
What Mrs. Harvey Sang.
When a sun reporter got into Crosby
hall, about sixty or seventy persons
were paying shocked, amused. stunned
and reverent attention, respectively, to
Mrs. +. L. Harvey, who was singing.
Mrs. Harvey is a rather. sweet-faced
woman of 80 or so. who was dressed
neatly I'm a white shirt waist and
black skirt and wore her pretty brown
hair brushed straight back from her
forehead and tied up at the back of
her head in a bun. She might have
been president of an Epworth League.
This is what she was singing:
oh, then 1 came to Jericho.
And the wallis they were so high
gave a shout and down they came.
And the Canaanites did fly.
Oh, I'm a hallelujah Christian!
I'm so happy all the time;
l sing and shout and leap for joy,
And, oh, it is sublime
l met the giants Of the land
They were so big and tall
I pierced them with the word Of truth,
And the Anakims did fall.
Oh, I'm hallelujah Chrlstianl
I'm so happy all the time:
J l sing and shout and leap for 10y.
And, oh, it is sublime.
It was Sublime.
Sister Harvey would sometimes clal
ner hands and leap two feet into tn
? air.
! "Wow," shrielSed the sister. 'Whee
t ee! And, oh, it is sublime."
{ At this point the occupants Of tn
! front two rows of seats, where tn
z faithful were clustered. took up tn
chorus and roared it out at thea top
Of their voices.
{ sister Miligan leaped from her chair
? seized Sister Harvey about the wals
and the pair did a chasse or two clea,
across the floor between the platform
, and the chairs, stopping every bar O
two to yell:
'Whee-ee-eei Hi-ee-ee! Wow-ow
ow!' All the while the faithful KEEP
roaring:
I'm a hallelujah Christian,
And, on, it is sublime.
Up on the platform a smooth face,
man dropped on his knees and beat tn
seat of his chair with his forehead
Two blond and bearded citizens whr
had been sitting besides him hopped al
as if they had been sitting on hornets
D nests and leaped into the air. wavin,
their arms and cracking their heel
= together and shouting: 'Wh-e-o-ul
Glory! Gloryl Whoop-e-el" and tn
faithful in the front seats kept pound
y ing the floor with their boots. an
a slapping their hands together and sing
ing:
I'm halleujah Christian,
And oh! it is sublime.
i, More and More Of It.