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Show DENVER'S DANCING DERVISHES. Not to mention its election scandals, Denver has other features to attract the attention of two hemispheres. Now we know that the "Holy Jumpers" Jump-ers" did not drop from the skies. Evidence is produced pro-duced disclosing the- genesis of this acrobatic religion. re-ligion. The information comes all the vway from England. A' London dispatch to ihe New York Herald mentions among the religious curiosities of the day "the antics of the dancing dervishes from Denver, Colo." To bear the odium of ballot-box ballot-box stuffing is bad enough, but how can Denver recover re-cover from the ridicule flung at her because of its "dancing dervishes"? Protestantism with its fantastic fan-tastic evolutions evidently has it in for Denver. The London correspondent of the New York Herald thus describes the Denver disciples of a new religion: Of all the curious chapes that recent religious revivals re-vivals have taken, there is none more remarkable than the dancing dervishes of the churches of the burning bush and pillar of: ftre, wno started giving visual evidence of their religion to Londoners at Carn-berweli Carn-berweli Baths. The first .night they appeared aftar being well advertised the huge building was crowded with spectators, more in expectation of entertainment entertain-ment than in seeking the truth. The platform had hardly been occupied by 3Trs. Obadiah White and her chosen. seven than the audience audi-ence showed signs of impatience. The preacher stopped and the chosen seven arose, stood in line, and sang what evidently was meant for a hymn, but it seemed to have an inspiring effect, for it drove them to dancing. They hopped higher and higher till they dropped back again to singing after a sort of cake-walk cake-walk in embryo. The performance closed without a call for either collection or repentance, but the dancing dan-cing had a. certain effect, for chaos reigned. Charging such ludicrous religious manifestations manifesta-tions to Protestantism perhaps sounds harsh. Tho intelligent quota of evangelism will likely resent it. But while so objecting, they cannot deny that every species of clownish religion practiced by "Anglo-Saxons" is the product of minds willing to yield to everything but Rome. It is a natural sequence se-quence of separation from the Apostolic Church. Fanatical Moslems seem, sane in comparison with ,"Holy Jumpers" and "Dancing Dervishes." Some meaning is attached to the emotional acts of the first named which common sense tolerates. |
