General Booth in Melbourne
Melbouene, September 22. On Sunday General Booth addressed over 20,000 people in the Exhibition Building, and on Monday 15,000 attended. There were scene of tumultuous rapture, and at the close of the evening address the General made a call to those who felt that they were " Saved " to come forward. Some hundreds responded, and the proceedings took a turn that bordered dangerously on hysteria. Women and men wept and prayed as they knelt, and numbers of the weaker sex fainted in some instances. On the platform stood the General, " granting " salvation to supplicants, whose extraordinary mental agitation seemed only to increase as the hymn, " Christ is calling us," came from the audience. At the raised dias at the foot of the platform knelt, racked seemingly by the deepest emotions, the penitents, offering a scene certainly without an equal in this colony.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 40, 1 October 1891, Page 2
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