The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
NORTH SIDE NEWS.
Holy Rollers" Deny Ever
Breaking Up Families.
Sag Do Not Separate Husbands
and Wives.
A LIVELY MEETING.
Make Strenuous Protest Against
Term Holy Jumpers"
Tell About Wickedhsss of This
World.
! LIVELY MEETING.

st want you to distinctly understand
that we do not take husbands away
from their wives nor wives away from
their husbands, no matter what is
charged u.s."
50 declared a speaker to the audi
ence at the Holy Roller or Holy
Sanctified People tabernacle at K1ous
street and Kansas avenue last night.
I'VE do not do that sort of thing, he
continued. 1--WE are here to preach the
gospel.
And we are not Holy Rollers The
ether day a man asked me if | be-
longed to the Holy Jumpers in North
Topeka and told him that had never
heard of any Holy Jumpers there.
The man who calls us Holy Jumpers
may jump to perdition some day II he
doesn't mend his ways"
A woman of the sect arose to her
feet and began to exhort. When | was
working for family here wasn't con
sidered worthy to eat at the table with
them,'' she shouted, but mad to eat
a little mite by myself at the kitchen
table. When ehe great day comes, that
family will not be worthy
This IS a sample of the worship at
the tabernacle last night. This meet
ing is reported to have been an
unusually warm one However, it is
reported that this sect reaches certain
class of people. In one family last
night, so the story goes. the hired girl
could scarcely wash the dishes fast
enough in her anxiety to attend the
meeting.
Others attend out of curiosity and for
amusement The performance draws
packed houses nearly every night It is
Sunday nights and Sunday afternoons
are the accepted times.
The meetings open with Swinging. Some
of the songs go like this:
81 sit all night listening,
1 sit all night a listening,
1 sit all night listening,
To hear some sinner pray
Nearly all of the vocal music is SINH
lar. consisting Of repetitions delivered
in a sing-song and accompanied with
clapping of hands and jumping. Inc
members of the band stand through the
exercises except when they kneel TO
pray.
Then several got to praying at the
same time In several different keys and
flats.
When they rise to their felt pro
hably a sister or brother Will teStlIy
scribe how wicked and near TO pern-
ton the rest of the world is
The gang back her IN with exclama-
lions of yes, yes, amt it SOP etc.
By this time a song will break out.
The singers began to rise on nptoe,
SLOWLY at IlISl, OuI 6CNIAAS
stepping higher until the whole mass
of worshippers are jumping up ana
Gown. In a moment or two some OF
them will slow up but the rest con-
tinue the motion. Thus the oemonstra-
ticn is given in relays.
Mingled with this Is the crying OF
babies, the suppressed laughs of the
ronsyrn ia thizers. and the eXclamatlonS
of the true believers in the audience.
The congregation grows larger ana the
air grows hotter in the room. OUTSIDE
crowds fill the space between the rude
building and the sidewalk. The win
dows are lined with the faces of the
Crlookers. The show is free. Not even
a collection is taken. The Holly Sane
tilted People" came here from Wichita
last fall. They say they stay in place
until it is sanctified and then the LORD
tell them where next to GO.
One of the most modern plants on the
North side is the new building OF the
Otto Kuehne Preserving company. In
rebuilding since their recent fire, Mr..
Kuehne adopted only the best ideas his
years of experience has taught him, and
the result is most gratifying in MS bus
mess. The new building is 65X166 feet.
four stories and constructed entirely Of
reinforced concrete and stone. The vim
egar. pickles and preserving depart
ments are constructed so as to give the
hest and most efficient service.