This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...an impulse which I could not resist, I sprang, ' says Mr. Crapsey, ' from the desk out upon the middle of the floor into the midst of the congregation; great signs and wonders then ensued and were witnessed by all. "' Fire, and pillars of smoke and luminous light rose up bodily in our midst; men, women, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...an impulse which I could not resist, I sprang, ' says Mr. Crapsey, ' from the desk out upon the middle of the floor into the midst of the congregation; great signs and wonders then ensued and were witnessed by all. "' Fire, and pillars of smoke and luminous light rose up bodily in our midst; men, women, and even stammering children were seized, speaking with new tongues, and uttering prophecies. Prayers and exhortations were poured forth in abundance, and many of the congregation broke out into the most marvellous and heavenly singing.' " But the demonstrations of this Pentecostal hour did not terminate with the close of that meeting. They came together again and again, meeting sometimes each day and occasionally in the night, when similar manifestations accompanied their gatherings, and continued up to the date of the TelegrapHs report, about June, 1855. Mr. Crapsey goes on to say that at times, certain of the persons affected, who were chiefly young people from ten to thirty years of age, would come to him, and enact in pantomime a spiritual or prophetic drama, showing that he would be subject to much persecution. Sometimes also the house where they were assembled would shake, and "even rock about as if in a gale of wind, although the air without was as still as death." They usually held their meetings in a building, the lower portion of which was used as a school, and the shaking of the house became so violent that the teachers were compelled to dismiss the scholars, as "they could not write and feared to remain upon the premises." After this excitement had continued until the whole neighborhood became stirred by it, a public meeting was held in the place, and a committee appointed to wait on Mr. Crapsey and request him to quit the...
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