Religious Frenzy at Auckland.
THE N.Z. HERALD DENOUNCES ' THE EVANGELISTS'.
i (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) i )„ Auckland, Dec. 2. ( The fferald.ia rough on the American evangelists, who are causing religious excitement at Port Albert. It says it is high, time that parties who such scenes as those named : should be made to feel that they are of the worst stamp of impostors. It is their way of securing a living, and it is as discreditable as any of the 'low devices by which those who prowl upon society impose |on their victims. Their practice, is to* I quarter themselves on, well inclined and hospitafbe, though weak, people, and to change their habitat only when their imposture 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, fyhens|£was prophesied that the walls of Jeffc^ th&'Sinuer's obduracy).would;giye way. One evangelist denounced the Jeyel of belief of another as '■Sfc^i^ifi^^tfii^ has been a split m the cmnp in^crtnse'qlfence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 4, 3 December 1884, Page 3
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189Religious Frenzy at Auckland. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 4, 3 December 1884, Page 3
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