Evangelism gone Mad.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4960, 2 December 1884, Page 2

Evangelism gone Mad.

[By Telegraph.—Own Cobbespokdent.] Auckland, This day. The Herald is rough on the American Evangelists, who are causing religious excitement at Port Albert. It says that it is high time that the parties who produce such scenes as those named should be made to feel that they are of the worst stamp of impostors. It is their only way of securing a living, and is as discreditable as any of the low devices by which those who prowl upon society impose on their victims. Their practise is to quarter themselves on welMnclined and hospitable, though weak-minded, people; and to change their habitation only when their imposture has been detected, or the resources of their misguided benefactors have been exhausted. Additional particulars of their religious excesses are to hand to day. Several sisters formed a ring round one of those unconverted, around whom, at the command of the Lord, they danced seven times, when it was prophesied the walls of Jericho— i.c, the sinner's obduracy—would give way. One evangelist denounced that the tenets of the belief of another was " a lie," and there has been a split in the camp in consequence.