The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-16
SISTER JACKSON'S GREATDAY
CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN
HAS 4 CONVOCATION,

~ AvAA NNaCAt b-GauCN EAoN
the Mosquitoes bothered Her Back
In - and How h Got, About tht
Same Time, the Great Revelation,
Even though the mosquitoes were bad
in Long Branch during the summer Of
1882 Sister jackson had a vision and re.
oeived an ordination from the Almighty
to preach a new word to the world fol
the greater comfort Of the Hesh and the
rest OF souls. Sister jackson remem.
bered the fact about the mosquitoes and
the incidents OF the revelation when she
addressed the delegat ties Of the Church ol
the First Born assembled In twenty-sixth
annual o vocation at the Mount Zion
Sanctuary y. at Bramhall and Ocean ave-
nues. Jersey City. yesterday afternoon.
One with supreme authority Is Sister
jackson, who Is hailed by the faithful q
our teacher By virtue Of discovery
she holds f1ef over tho Church Of the First
Born from Greenland's 10y mountains
TO Cairo, Ill. It was I the dlsciples as
sembled from points between Those two
extremes Of missionary endeavor that
Sister jackson revealed tho coincident
conditions Of winged pests and winged
mandates that existed in Long Branch
during b a summer OF 1881.
Il lay sick unto death said Sister jack
son and her voice was pitched at a hushed
tremolo. Il lay there in my bed never
knowing when the day was TO come when
would be called home Hallelujah that
! wasn't I remember that the mos
quitoes were particularly had that SUM
mer and with what little strength I had
Tanned them from my face, weak though
! was.
AN Of this time I kept searching In
my heart-remember how the Word says:
search your heart, for ,ye know not
my heart to learn why It was that / was
nqt one who gave meet praise 10 the
Sister jackson stepped to the front
Of the platform and exhorted the con-
gregadon souhulIy: IAN who have
banda Fifty hands went up in pointed
ordinations.
Then one time In the night season
Q voice came to me.
"sister Jackson said the voice. rise,
thou art healed rose from my bed
S o. Pain tb5s singing joyiully and oryine
were with me shook their heads and took
counsel together. They said that I
was insane and they wanted to put me
IN an insane asy lum. I said TO Brother
jackson here. my husband, that / was
healed and he shook his head and he
that h eayen is an asylum for all those
that seek it. and
And there are no straitjacke cts there
came the booming interruption from
Brother jackson, who sat back Of the
sister o n the dais.
Sister jackson 10 a democratic mother
M the faith urt1norl~, k-nnl hx A. .-
regenerate the FAITH curists. bhe does
not hedge herself about with dignites.
nor does she entertain pilgrims In a mother
room In Jersey City. A very prao-
teal. very voclferous poesessor Of the
light is Sister jackson, n who knows
market than the philosophy Of the Boston
school, and who sets forth her message
in declaratve sentences Of brief measure.
b 10 short and stout and middle
aged. b wore yesterday q black skirt
and waist and black bonnet. after the
dictates OF her teachings. which are
against SNOWY gauds. feathers and false
puffs, She has q well trained voice.
which swings from the fearful strain into
the militant without effort.
About n hundred delegates and peni-
tents sat before Sister jackson and the
rest OF the regulars Of the church in the
is designated. Most Of the women wore
the sombre black prescribed by the church;
many Of the men had their whiskers
long. In imitation Of the conventional por-
traits Of Christ. The delegates had come
from distant points. many Of them, and
their faith was strong in them.
delivered to her, Sister jackson became
reminiscent OF the early history OF the
faith. She recalled how q second vision
bad revealed 70 her a section Of New York
Bay in the vicinity Of Bayonne and she
showed how a similarity Of visions en-
Hancox had led to the establishment Of
the early church at Greenville. an out
skirt Of Jersey City.
God gave me q revelation Of New
York Bay said Sister jackson, and she
passed her hand with q weary GESTURE
neighborhood about 1t. but I did not know
what that revelation meant until later,
when Brother Hancox came to me and
told me that he had received O vision of
New York Bay about Bayonne. He de-
scnbed the spot that he had seen In his
vision and it Tailed e1aetly. with the land
had seen his fathers property In Green
Vile. Straightway We went to that spot
and acquired that property and that
tuary."
n SISTER did not revert to the fact
that n time a small tornado visited
Greenville and wrecked the house that
had been established. At the time the
members Of the Church Of the First Born |
gave II out that they had intended raz-
ing that house anyway and that tho Al
mighty had spared them the trouble.
why. the nnarvels that the Lord has
done In our midst are daily becoming
more manifest acclaimed the sister,
growing heated In her delivery, sOne
time I said to my husband, Brother Jack
son here. that I would rather die than
live In Jersey C-You said that, praise
God from Brother Jaokson.) Yet here
/ have been living In Jersey all these
years and ! am satlsfed,' concluded
Sister jackson triumphantly.
The comfortably stout head Of the
Church Of the First Born yielded the
rostrum TO others Of the regulars, all
Of whom live In peaceful communion
In house next door to b church struo-
ture. Brother Hanoox, who 10 also Pas
tor Hanoox, a tall. grave man with y long
beard. had q good deal to say about what
work the early church had done In o
mission on Tenth street, New York, when
China men, Hebrews ad Italians ffocked
to learn how TO be cured of eciatica, in
fuenza and various other ailments through
faith. Pastor Robert jackson, who 10
better known Is the husband Of Sister
jackson, rose to defend the fact that In
that mission they had only cotton sheet
ing on the wall. There were some very
inspiring notices across that sheet
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