| Show Gab gabriels riols trumpet A correspondent writing from birmingham ala to the cumberland plateau says that in one ot of the sout southern heni counties of alabama there is a settlement of second ests one snoday day in tho the early part of spring i g the man mail who acts as is prophet teacher and preacher for these people announced to them at their regular meeting that on a certain day in may the lord would certainly come and that everything pertaining to this world aou would d bo be utterly annihilated and the believers would go and dwell in heaven and reap tho the reward of a well spent life accordingly great preparations were made ascension robes of the latest patterns were prepared for the event the moi morning ming ofelio great day that was to sec see the destruction of all thing terrestrial arrived the earth smiled in the warm sunshine tho air was laden with the perfume of flowers rich and rare which grow spontaneously in this latitude and there was nothing to indicate such a calamity that was expected so soon ta follow fullow the people cople began in early to assem assemble bleat at acir their meeting house bouse white robed figures with bright faces in happy anticipation of the heavenly joys that they were soon to taste prayers full of pathos and feeling for for the outside sinners that were so soon to taste tho the bitter cup of the lost songs indicative of a p perfect berfect willingness to ascend th heavenly stairway and leave this vain world were sung with earnest sweetness less while they singing with full fall vigor I would not live lv c always wa s the hoarse bass of a trumpet or biorn horn sounded on their cars seemingly from above the song was unfinished faces paled strong men trembled and all made a rush to reach the open air such a scena cannot be fully described by tongue or PC pen il some jumped through the windows and on reaching the open air air all seemed bent on oil rea reaching li homo home by the short shortest eid ro route 11 to alio hg men cut a sorry figure their limbs beconi becoming entangled in their flowing how ing robes they would fall head headlong longo and others would tear tho the robes from their bodies and thus unhampered flee like a hunted deer before the hound in five minutes no one ile was to be seen in the regio region n about the church it was plain that there would not bo any ascension eliat day meeting seemed to bo be out A traveler passed tamed the church after this most ludicrous ludicrous scene weno described above and saw aw a small boy issuing from the loft of the church with a battered dinner horn in his hand band and hia his faeo faco decorated with a broad satisfied grin iio ile seemed anxious not to b bo seen and ho he left the church with hurrying footsteps it was wisely conjectured bythe by the knowing ones that the boy had been playing gabriel in the loft of the church churell with better results than he be had anticipated |
