The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-01-04
JUVENILE COURT OBDERS
N"BRIDE OF THE LORD"
BROUGHT I'm.
Mother Must Appear-Authorities
Want to Ktow Why Child Els
2 Allowed to Roll on Filthy
Floor-Behind Guard
ed Doore.

! Portland, Jan. by w. P.
fstrandborg in Portland Journal:
T Niue-year-old Mildred Crawford,
the child, whose mother has hyp-
!! no1ized her Into the belief. that she
is TO be the "bride of the Lord"
4 and lead the host of "Holy Howl
fers" now holding forth in nightly
orgies at 235 Sscc1d street, Is to be
+, brought into Juvenile court.
! Last night Judge Frazer issu'd
hcitation to Probation Officers Haw-
4 ley and White, with instructions to
Egerve it on the mother to compel
I her TO appear with the child before
lhim.
/ The order of the court came as
! the result of the disgusting practices
] jof the ft-throwing sect known as
the Pentecost Faith, whereby the
] little girl is permitted to roll laround
on the floor among negroes and
white men for a couple of hours ev-
iery night.
/ The padded-cell evangelists at
1 the St. John Gosrel Mission had an
lawful time with the devil last
night.
just exactly who got the beet of
the rough-house is hard to say, for
the overlords of frienzied fanaticism
drove out the public, licked the
doors and placed two burly negroes
on guard in front, while the mem
bers OF the "Inner Circle" INDUCED
| in "prayer service"
| All the public could gather from
the noise that ssemRnated from the
"holy of holies" was that men,
white and black, women, white and
black, and young girls we're shrek
i ing and bowling, stamping and
pounding, groanipg and yelling in
fagellation of body and exaltation
of soul. -
Just why the police on the beat
who had been notified to keep watch
of the place did rot break in and
find out why little girls were groan-
ing and screaming downstairs in
the chapel and upstairs, in the liv-
Ing room ard bed room of the "Ho-
ly Howlera," to the accompaniment
of coarse, rough shouting of men,
is not clear. At least, one patrol
men was informed of the situation,
but be did nothing. ,.5s ..-
The orgy throughout was, if any
thing, mere disgraceful than any
that had preceded it. No Efforts made
to keep up semblance of humility
or devoutness. It's nothing but
noise, noise, noise, coupled with the
most sickening incantations, dis
gusting groveling in the dirt, i'm.
moral conduct as between the sex
es, to say nothing of the revolving
manner in which the color line is
ahraded. a..
ALL in the name of religion, too.
The leaders of the Infamous prac-
ltices are shrewd enough to know
: just how to appeal to the long.
haired, the ignorant, the watery-
Ieyed and the teeble-minded. Their
driveling ki.yis, they tell those de-
luded easy marks, are the word o1
God in the unknown tongues. Their
rolling in spittal and dirt on tbs
Huor they explain as the process o.
sanctifcation. Their inhuman so.
ceries with innocent little girls are
they aay, nothing but God demon
strating tat ''little child shall
lead them"
Before the public was excluded
from the meeting last night, two O.
the shameless performers In the
blasphemous orgy used all the wilel
at their command to induce two
| young girls, apparently sisters, ont
about Is, the other a couple o
years older, to "come forward ant
be saved" They coaxed and teasei
and importuned them. They ever
seized them by the arm. Wher
the girls who had been drawn to thI
meeting BY curiosity resented tn
indignities of the Saints" ant
started to leave, one of the padded
cell artists told the girls they neet
not 60 forward In front of ell tn
crowd, but that he had key to le
them in through the back way.
The mountebanks were so hrazer
in their efforts to get the girls un
der their control that their exhor
tations were overheard BY numbe
of people at the meeting.
It is apparent to any one VIII