The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-18
WOMAN IS STARVING
TO BEAT THE DEVIL
HUSBAND WORKS AND COOKS
HIS OWN MEALS WHILE
WIFE PRAYS FOR HIM.
TRYING TO CONVERT HIM
Says Angel Started It, and Her Body
Is Nourished by Spiritual Food.
Husband Goes About Daily Duties
But Little Concerned.

But Little Concerned.
DANVILLE, Il1-Mrs. Sadie Har-
rington was slowly starving and sup
plicating the Divinity to save her hus-
bands soul here Saturday night while
Ernie Harrington, unperturbed hus--
band, was selling poultry and butter
to the town folk in his little produce
store.
Spiritual mamma" is keeping Mrs.
Harrington alive on the forty-frst day
OF her hunger strike, she told the
United Press.
"The Bible tells us that mama
which fell from on high saved the life
of the children of God" she said.
Christ is nourishing my body with
spiritual food
"God will take care of his children
Il know | will not die in my effort
to save Ernie's SOU"
Angel Started 1t.
"Forty-one days ago as | was pre-
pairing lunch | had a vision" Mrs.
Harrington said. can angel appeared
and told me never to partake of food
until Ernie became an evangelist IN
the church of God"
Mrs. Harrington said she sees Moth
ing strange in her fast.
81 am simply following out pre-
cept of christianity" she said
"Christ tasted forty days to over
come satan. | am doing the same
thing to overcome satan's possession
OF nv husbands soul. Ernie must
She stopped short, and lifting her
eyes upward uttered this simple
prayer:
20, Lord, please make Ernie see
the light. Make him quit changing
money in the market place and send
him to the uttermost parts of the
earth to tell of Thee
Mrs. Harrington said she is sure
her hunger strike will cause her hus-
band to accept Christ.
Mrs. Harrington, who is 81, said
she weighed about 230 pounds when
she started the fast.
Not Lost Pound.
81 feel fine and don't believe that l
have lost pound" she said. 81 haven't
partaken Of food in IL days"
| Nevertheless, slight twitching of
the facial muscles and bit of worn
and tired look about the eyes was
discernible. Her face was furrowed
with wrinkles and pallor was no.
ticeable.
"She is Just as we'll as she ever was,
interrupted Mrs. Olive Brown, anoth-
err member of the church of God.
and Ernie is getting to see the
light, isn't hep Mrs. Brown said.
Mrs. Harrington agreed.
But Ernie" had different tale to
tell.
In his little produce store he was
busi1y engaged in picking feathers
from chickens.
"If you can show me something
better than my religion-the Golden
Rule and the Ten Commandments
| will take it up" he said. II aim to
treat everybody fair and don't believe
you have to shout your religion from
the house top"
IF you go down to see my wife,
he said, tell her to get something in
her stomacb-some milk and crackers
-that'll do her more good than pray
ing"
He Knows Her.
Harrington does not believe his
wife will keep up the strike.
Il have lived with her eighteen
years. know her." he said Har-
rington's chief regret was that his
wife's hunger strike was harming his
business. "She used to keep my books
and wait on trade,V he said. Now 1
have to do it all myself l am not
going to go out and preach after work
ing here to build up my business"
Harrington said he has received
hundreds of letters from people all
over the country.
Zone was from woman in Mich
igan who wrote me her husband was
religious fanatic. | have a notion
to have her come to Danville so we
could sympathize with each other"
Each day about a dozen members
of the church of God gather at the
little Harrington cottage to pray for
Ernie's soul.
Hymns are sung and testimony
given Ernie never attends. He fig
ures he is too busy waiting on the
trade in his little produce store.