STRANGE SIGHT
AN EVANGELISTIC MEETING. PEOPLE PROSTRATE ON FLOOR. WELLINGTON, November 10. Extraordinary, .scenes were witnessed in a hall in the city last evening at p revival service r„aer the auspices of the Wellington Pentecostal Mission, conducted .by a visiting evangelist, Mr L. J. /ones. To the accompaniment of the -ayiig-on of hands, men, women and children sank to the floor and lay prostrate in the climax of an outburst of favour. As person after person succumbed to the influence at work, the front of the hall presented a remarkable spectacle, the 'weirdness of which was heightened by the emotional stress displayed and a confusion of sound. Oue woman lay drumming her heels on the floor. An elderly man, stretched flat on his back» with his hands upraised and fists clenched, remained in that position, shouting iuoe&santly for fully twenty minutes.
At the close the onlookers, led by the evangelist and his assistants, raised their voices in a hymn, and the prostrate figures rose one by one. Some joined in tbe .singing and continued praying, while others sank on to chairs and were attended by friends.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 2
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