STRANGE SCENES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1932, Page 8

STRANGE SCENES.

REVIVAL SERVICE AT WELLINGTON. MEN AND WOMEN PROSTRATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Extraordinary scencs were witnessed in a 'hall in the city last evening at a revival service under the auspices of the Wellington Pentecostal Mission, conducted by a visiting evangelist, Mr. L. J. Jones, to the accompaniment of the laying on of hands. Men, women and children sank to the floor and lay prostrate in the climax to an outburst of fervour as person after person succumbed to the influence at work. The front of the hall presented a remarkable spectacle, the weirdness of which was heightened by the emotional stress displayed and the confusion of sound. One woman lay drumming her heels on the floor, while an elderly man, stretched flat on his back, with his hands upraised and his fists clenched, remained in that position shouting incessantly for fully twenty minutes. At the close the onlookers, led by the evangelist and his assistants, raised their voices in a hymn, and the prostrate figures rose one by one. Some joined in the singing and continued praying, while others sank on to chairs and. were attended by friends.