A VERY REVIVAL MEETING.
At a revival meeting held recently in on* of the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, the room became so crowded with perspiring souls that the forms provided for their accommodation proved insufficient to seat the sinners, many of whom were " under conviction." As there were a good many chain stowed away in a kind of cockloft -over the room in which the prayers and exhortations were going on, one of the members went up to hand them down; the leader gave out the hymn, " Hold the Fort." The attic floor consisted of the plastering, which constituted the ceiling of the room below, of which circumstance the chair-seeker was not aware; so, just as the choir commenced the first stanza, down came one leg of the unfortunate chair-hunter. -The choir, however, did not notice the circumstance, and went on •inging, "Ho .' my comrades, see the signal in the air, reinforcements now are coming, &c." Just at that instant the other leg. appeared, and the singing was -drowned by the roaring laughing of the congregation. J
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 325, 9 May 1877, Page 4
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177A VERY REVIVAL MEETING. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 325, 9 May 1877, Page 4
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