| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 3/14/1899.
A Mysterious Presentment
A matter of news has just come to our attention which deserves more
than a passing notice, and is vouched for by people of unquestionable integrity
and they are neither supersticious nor visionary. Hence, to us, the
mystery. The details, as our informant gave them to us, are substantially
as follows: At the Enon meeting, of which mention has heretofore
been made, after Rev. Burns had preached a wonderful sermon in which the
appeal to young and unconverted men was even beyond human expectation,
and after an invitation had been given to any and all to accept the Christian
religion, the congregation had been dismissed, and a young man, who has
never made any pretentions to being religious, walked up to the pulpit,
for what purpose he does not know, but upon his arrival at the pulpit he
saw, in the window of the church, a portray of the entire congregation
as they naturally appeared on the floor of the house. The different
colored costumes, the anxious, at the anxious seat, the minister as he
stood in the pulpit with one hand pointed toward heaven and the other hanging
by his side and his body leaning toward the congregation. The young
man who first saw the portray tapped the minister on the shoulder and called
his attention to the mystery, and he in turn directed the attention of
several others to the matter. Without any change of conditions in
the church the picture gradually disappeared from view, after having been
seen by several. Among them were A. Huffman, Rev. Burns, Mrs. Bettie
Morris, Mrs. Burns and Oke Dulin. |
