RELIGIOUS ROWDIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1394, 2 December 1884, Page 2

RELIGIOUS ROWDIES.

[by TELEGRAPH.] ■: Auckland, To-day. The Herald is rough on the American evangelists who were causing religious excitement at Port Albert. It says— i**Tt Is' 1 -' hi ih time that parties who produce such scenes as those named should be made to feel that they are of the worst stamp of imposters. It is their way of securing a living, and it is as discreditable as any of the low devices by which those who prowl on society impose on their victims. Their practice is to quarter themselves on l well inclined and hospitable, though; weak, people, and to change their habitat only when their injustice has been detected, or the resources of their misguided benefactors have been exhausted.” Additional particulars of the religious excesses are to hand to-day. Several sisters formed a ring round one of the unconverted, around whom, at the command of the Lord, they danced several times, when it -was professed the walls ,of Jericho, i.e,, the sinners’ obdurandy, would give way. One evangelist denounced the level of belief of another as a “ lie,” and there has been a split in the camp in consequence.