AT THE REVIVAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)

AT THE REVIVAL.

The San Francisco Argonaut tells an amusing story of an old-time "religious revival" meeting at a negro church near Savannah. In order that the revival (spirit mighfc be quickened, it was arranged that the preacher should give a signal when he thought the excitement was highest, and from the at,tic through a »hole cut in the ceijing directly over the pulpit, the sexton was to . shove down a pure white ydove, whose .flight ■ around the church and over the, heads of. the audi-" ence was expected to have an, inspiring effect, and, as ,far as emotional excitement was concerned, to cap the climax. All Went well at the start ; the church I was packed ; the preacher's text was, "In the form of a dove," and as he piled up his eloquent periods the excitement was strong. Then the opportune moment arrived — the signal was given — and the packed audience was scared ' out of its' j wits on looking up to th*e ceiling and beholding a cat, with a clothesline around,] its middle, howling and ' spitting, being"! slowly lowered over the preacher's head. The preacher called out to the "sexton Tri' tho attic: "Whar's de dove?" • And the sexton's voice came clown through the opening so you could hear 'it a block:' "Inside the cat !" ' ,