Salvationism Gone Mad.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4812, 11 June 1884, Page 3

Salvationism Gone Mad.

■"■."Dia'GBAOBPjJt Demonstbatiost at Ade- ■ ,'-.rV *-J' V,-t; ;. 'IAIDB. * ' '•' The SajTatibn Array at Adelaide appears ' tobetakinft'Jeaveofitssenses. A monster 'demonatra'tionwas held the other day in Hindmarsh, a suburb, and was characterised by disgraceful blasphemy and buffoonery. The procession was headed by a brass band, and about thirty coryphees ' dancing and playing tambourines. In front of these rode "Captain " Gore," who joined the main body at the Gasworks Hotel. He iras mounted on a donkey, in imitation of Christ's entry into Jerusalem, and he wore 1 a scarlet tunic and cap. At a signal from the crowd he touched the ass with a whip, ' -withtthe intention of making it go ; but the iss objected, and-lit lart;e congregation- of* larrikins, who were in the immediate vicinity, began to yell and deride the wretched creature. The asa persisted in its refusal to go, and about forty or fifty of tbe people who .•'■.'•surrounded Gore attempted to push it. " ... lit.the confusion which followed, Gore / f was nearly thrown upon his head, and the animal, having become frantic, attempted" to force a passage for itself throughthe ' crowd, and vainly endeavored to jerk •■Gore off. After further difficulty-the animal's obstinacy was overcome, and the procession proceeded a considerable distance to Brompton Park. There the ass absolutely refused to go any further. A ring was made from among the hoodlum and rough element, which formed the majority of the procession, and Gore, singing a bloodthirsty hyc:», attempted to ride into it. As the animal declined to go, Gore dismounted,' and the crowd lifted it up by main force and carried it into the ring. Gore remounted; and then began an acrobatic performance on its back, amid the chants and hallelujahs of the soldiers. As the ass refused to bo a participator in this ludicrous proceeding, Gore, amid ' cries of " Amen " and " Praise the Lord," •f seated himself with his back to the donkey.'i head, and grasped madly a,t its tail, in border to keep his position. ; l-He got nearly! half killed for h^.troublevXrGore *:# Taxied the 'proceedings^b^'sitti^/xMi the sideways.^nd wasyagai^^Mown. :r'<y,Tbe crdira.bi|«ra time!bad re^^bpjover' jr: -f Attft.;^"mHM.~b«tMi^BisP- hilarious -■%?" 'rt win'^ffew'al .attemptsibf-ihe.- Captain. X?' M':'tO"r«tain;,liirseit.' The junfortu'nate 1 ass *-• . was no^aiscarded, and the crowd moved off to- 'ft vacant piece <rf ground, where - anotherTring was,formed. The proceed- ! ' ings which ensued were on a par with "' w hat had preceded, and at times were of '%' a disgusting .character. They consisted 5 chiefly of what were termed " Hallelujah ': gallops," in the shape of jumping .and dancing,to the strains of a band and the ■ tirikljiojc ,of tambourines, while others, ..- ■- arrajed ih .ia;ita;tion of niggers in a minsv\ trel performance, danced a number of ''.",< ji« s to tbe strains of several concertinas. This wbb followed in a " Hallelujah merry-Kb-eround," of the lowest music ball type; ' A decrepiddrum and a thing described as a flag were placed in the centre of a ring, ■ v and'the male and female soldiers danced 'I "■' round it, throwing tbeir arms and legs 5 aboutin a manner which called forth ex■i pressWns of disgust. Thi* 1 disgraceful orjjie terminated with what was billed/as. 1 a"Pf»J»* "ihe'Ldrd eorfoboree," which consisted of the hideous clashing together - , 'of a ttiunbt!? of musical inetrnments and a i dance/tfter tho manner of a blackfellows' if-- bnterfalnro>rit. After , this carae the ordinftry I 'collections and tea and public j X meetings, in the Army's own barracks in f" Bdwden. The press this mornine protest •' • in the strongest terms against this horrible, j "j painful traveatie of religion, the like of which bas never been seen in Adelaide, or, indeed* throughout the rt whole of Australia. Adelaide at. the present „ Ume is overrun with these religious nJMWcs,-.-- Adelaide ■paper. >^fei_. >