EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A BRISDANE CHURCH.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 18, 9 January 1878, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A BRISDANE CHURCH.

Tito Brisbane correspondent of tho Melboiffno Arpus thus describes nft extraordinary' occurrcmso in* a* Brisbane Ohurch during tho mission of Dr Softiorvillo to Qiieonsliind :*-" Ih Brisbnno wo havo not suiKrod for wunti of bustlo. First of nil wo had Dt Sorhorvillo, tho groat revival 1 prtiaoher. All 'ovßiißolioal' congregations* gathered at th« cxriiHiition building to listen' to this; worthy and'vonorablo man, : who hartnord rovcrend looking long whito ctirb-than ■ nny< individual since tho time of patriarchal Ga'nby in Littlo Dortitv A younger Somervillo accompanied this fiuo old pnstor r and supplied tho oloments of music and pimples? being -fairly^'ondowod in>both rospeots. - Tho services inado a p;rcat impression; ami were- tho scene of muoli genuine camestnos? •on tho part of tho attendants. But tho general cfieot lias boon marred ' by a'tortiGd blunder which tho sHvcr-haired tqftchor fell into. A.t ono of bis sqrvioos tho doctor requested that all of thpnjnle sex,^ except tho«o who assisted in tlio choir (and who, it may bo* presumod, wero .supposed either, fp.'b'o ' requisiteu for thoatrioal effect,' or clso 'o possess peculiar delicacy of feeling as nnaooossory. to anoa* for music), lowitb^

draw. Accordingly thero was a *)lonin stirmpodo 6f. all tho men in th«oougrcgation 1 . As iooq a» they Were ;ono, the vetrcraWe revivalist requester, in dolicctc tcrnw, that all ffomva who *-<:r^ sensible of harith? led « life of sin, nai whtf deslre'J ' to, And poaoo, should tWini up. There trotfo about 150O 1 wohow present, «n<s onJy about a doaen failed t.) understand the rov. Rentlemarr. Tint dozen bbiirf? simplo and inriocoatarindxl youngjporsofts, had heardthatall iWiu w*r sinners, and took | men*' to bo a generic term incltuKAff 'Women 1 / According, under tlio impression that tIiWU would be a' universal roll \tp t thef rdso in their plrttfos, and wenrnstonishtfd to Aid thota« salvosunsupporteth Tbdr* further amazement and horror may b«rconccl?ed when I raumion tlai tlio revivalist began t> barnnguo thvstr .innocents as \cftt sijeep, in n ftushy sonsoi and insisted on 1 tlioir f leaving their"' peaces, parading up tin; Ibn^ aisles* uuder tlio thousand»fold fkti of all' tlio other worat'n present, and introdtfbed' them to ft prirato room, wlicrtf Jitf solemnly doprccnted their immoral cftnvso*, an«l' prayod for tbtfm us a group of Mngdnlcnes. Of course, U\ts poor youtrtf thing*- wV?ro' \>y this timo hysterical)^ Weeping! willi 1 shamo eonfusioif) and anguish.- Tlio more they tfept,- thor higher rose' the' oxultant ccsiady of the j^o^oldinnni Not I one of tho dcspnririug young people hud ' tho norvo to 1 enter upon- atvcrjilanation 1 nocos.sarily del {Onto and diUroa.siug to to unmarried young lad 1 5s and tb young • wives. They wanted to cscap» by a'sido door, but tho revHralist tf«s determined' to simtoli these' brands , from 1 tlw fi'o an 'l insisted thut they should unrreh'baclc to tiivir placos, which' thVrtOftftv frantic • creatures actually did.- Axn! then 1 the » vcittrablo man got n'l tho knowing , bahtneo, who had 1 not co'rt'sWeMd■thom- • fcfn 1 )* sinners, topray for tlictr sinful" Sisters, nnd lie glorili^J tlw Almighty nniMiiinsolf (hs a hninbto instrument) and 1 ' having plucked them forth andbrought them- to a senso of the evil oi their Trtiy.«,-> i ho omward expression of tlrtsi»Eset)>in^ thnt'Uio victims were almost entalopno with distress),- einb*rrdßsm«i»t,-and'suffer-ing,- Now I know* three of ths'youne;* Indies who were 'exposed 'lib th»sou»rag-< I coin ■ tho blundottng conreit of a fool Mir old mini. One is tho young wil'o of v-< m«mber of Parliament, and two are the (luugitieH— thon tttmuunecl, of one of' ■out highest' Government olBAi«ls: All tlirec haro been broiulit up, as it wer •,• imdor thonye* of evorf oKI residint «»t Brisbane, nnd'sinctf'chUdhooii hav»> nevi kr,-fuTnisheti-ocuasion tor im iinkiml romilrlc. Everybody know* them exemplars of nil' 1 thutisSnuotenl in puri yr<i.<H;irlhood, «rti«l' a -'sentiment of deep initial ui.>n pervivlbl i'a"H but tho fatuous circle b"f~evntigoliciHTO ' Wthc cruel forturd arising from tho con*, eoited 'assumption •of intaUibb insight My £i sensational travelling preacher. Tins formd 1 cx)»rfissK)rt' ift' tho" wHtinuaof** 'locnl humdrist in tho evening paper, -who 'bri» iVy condensed a crtusliowecouni of tlye" 'terrible brtmder. Instead 'of an apoldgy beiniT forthcomrng fronv the proper" q^nrtci'; the' organ of the cvan<«HcaN— the Standard— poised a torrent of abos« " on tlio writer; nnvl 1 accused hint of hating': outrngod tho feelings of women !