The Port Albert "Revivals"

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4962, 4 December 1884, Page 2

The Port Albert "Revivals"

MORE MADHOUSE SCENES

The following paragraph, telegraphed yesterday to the Auckland Star, reveals a state of things which is a disgrace to our civilisation, and which (to the shame of those connected with it, be it said) is sure to have damaging effect upon the religious inclinations of all who have witnessed the scenes depicted :—

The iexciting and extraordinary scenes enacted at the " holiness meeting" on Saturday and Sunday were continued, but in such an outrageous form yesterday that the polir-e have taken up the matter. I have just helped to carry the wife of a respectableAucklandcitizenintoa settler's house, where Miss Beecroft and Mrs Hunt acted as the Good Samaritan. The woman was standing a few yards from the public road with uplifted arm, and clad about as sparsely as Mother Eve, and was praying excitedly. The schoolmaster was unable to conduct school, owing to th 6 frightful yells for three nights disturbing him, his house being near the camp. There are six mad people. I saw a man with only his trousers on (a highly moral at'd religious Auckland citizen) rolling and struggling and screaming on the ground, all the while tightly embracing another man's wife. Both are mad, and while they were thus performing, an evangelist roared " Glory ! Glory !" The owner of the camping ground, very properly, is ordering them ofi'.