Show fanaticism NEARLY FATAL woman misting insisting on a seven times immersion Is almost drowned in self administered baptism philadelphia pa insisting that she sha must be baptized in her own way a woman who gave the name of mrs airs sophie plum came near drowning in III the presence of at least 2000 spectators on the he delaware river banks an gloucester she was rescued in the nick of time by a man in III a launch and afterwards revived in a nearby bull building ling the big crowd was thoroughly thrilled by the exciting spectacle as the woman endeavored to reach a rude cross crosa planted in the river about 20 yards from shore share the rev william head of the helping hand church gloucester had announced several days before that there would be a baptism in the river but there was some hitch in the program mrs airs plum was anxious for the ceremony cere morly but she insisted that she must be immersed seven times in accord with her conceived conceive notions of biblical injunction pastor pickersgill said eald he c cio 1111 ild ill ind d no authority for such a cereMi nony ony and and when he appeared bafo e the crowd on the shore her ile he anjou an nou be d that the ceremony would not t t bahe place ile he had helped plant thea the ross oss in the sand with rocks about ls base when the tide was low jt va I 1 a 1 mrs I r plum desired but there wald ad be no ceremony yes there wil exclaimed mrs alra plum why who suddenly appeared in flowing white robes we are agrenot not led to perform this ceremony and Hid we shall have nothing no thing to do y I 1 th it replied the pastor ands by the rebuff mrs plum strode 1 ro 6 jt into 0 the water and mad or r the cross well out in the current before she could reach it she 7 was a wept swept ott aft her feet and was waa afi quickly lickly struggling gling for her life of fa I 1 th the tha thousands ands who saw her gilbert ithac tarch saw that she was really drowning ing and jumping into a launch man raged to get her ashore where she was waa resuscitated |