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Show Revivalist Hammond and Theodore Theo-dore Price, a spiritualist exhorter, attacked Joliet, 111,, at the same time. Hammond had a street meeting meet-ing in excited progress, using a wagon as a pulpit, when Price drove up in another wagon. The concourse was immense, and Hammond begged them to disperse at once after the close of the meeting, without waiting to hear "that infidel" who was "in waiting to ensnare souls." Several clergyman joined in this request; but after the doxology only a few of the people left. Then Price went to work, using the audience which bis rival had gathered. Hammond triumphed, tri-umphed, however, for tho churches engaged the largest ball in the city, put in three cabinet organs, and got a great revival under way. The ownero -of tha otlwc.luJla would not rent to Price, and so his mouth was closed except for street preaching, and the weather got too cold for that. |