PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1880. CONVERT IN TROUBLE.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 544, 10 July 1880, Page 2

PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1880. CONVERT IN TROUBLE.

A RKiiicnous conversion has been effected through the medium ot a dark spirit, in a North Island town. A certain Y. Y. had been a bad man, so he admits ; but one day he received a visitor, an angel unawares, and that angel converted V.W. to a devout and pious frame of mind. Y.W. went on with his religious exercises, preaching to the benighted, making a collection, and then getting drunk. His conversion had been defective in that particular; and as V.W. insisted on preaching while under this other spiritual influence, he was taken into custody and charged with being drunk. This interference of the “ secular arm ” brought into the case a new influence, which made three; namely (1) the World (spirit at 6d duty); (2) the Flesh in V.W.; and (3) the Devil, Monsieur the black angel. The Flesh appeared before the Magistrate, and took the World with him (carried inside as freight f.0.b., but the Devil failed to appear when called as a witness. Owing to his absence, Mr Y.W. was unable to prove his “conversion” to the satisfaction of the Court. He was also charged with deserting his wife, though it does not appear whether that was owing to a “ visit” from the angelic dark Don Juan. It was shown that while Y.W. was preaching and receiving angel visits, besides communing with other spirits, the devout man’s wife was starving. The Magistrate had not met with a conversion so peculiar in his long experience ; and, following the ancient legal practice ot Agrippa’s time, the Magistrate called in a doctor to examine into the state of the convert’s mind. The examination is now going on.