Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845

  • Source Note
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into my mouth and crushed it between my teeth. All my clothes were torn off me except my shirt collar; and one man fell on me and scratched my body with his nails like a mad cat, and then muttered out: God damn ye that’s the way the Holy Ghost falls on folks.
“They then left me, and I attempted to rise, but fell again; I pulled the tar away from my lips, &c so that I could breath more freely, and after a while I began to recover, and roused myself up, when I saw two lights. I made my way towards one of them, and found it was s. When I had come to the door, I was naked, and the tar made me look as though I was covered with blood, and when my saw me she thought I was all mashed to pieces, and fainted. During the affray abroad, the sisters of the neighborhood had collected at my room. I called for a blanket, they threw me one and shut the door; I wrapped it round me and went in.
My friends spent the night in scraping and removing the tar, and washing and cleansing my body; so that by morning I was ready to be clothed again. This being sabbath morning the people assembled for meeting at the usual hour of worship, and among those came also the mobbers; viz , a Campbelite minister; and Pelatiah Allen, Esqr. who gave the mob a barrel of whiskey to raise their spirits; and many others. With my flesh all scarified and defaced, I preached to the congregation as usual, and in the afternoon of the same day, I baptized three individuals.”
went immediately to ; but Joseph remained at ’s to finish his preparations for a journey, which he contemplated making to . Immediatety after ’s arrival at , we met for the purpose of holding a prayer meeting; and, as had not been with us for some time, we hoped to hear from him <​up​>on this oc [p. 217]
into my mouth and crushed it between my teeth. All my clothes were torn off me except my shirt collar; and one man fell on me and scratched my body with his nails like a mad cat, and then muttered out: God damn ye that’s the way the Holy Ghost falls on folks.
“They then left me, and I attempted to rise, but fell again; I pulled the tar away from my lips, &c so that I could breath more freely, and after a while I began to recover, and roused myself up, when I saw two lights. I made my way towards one of them, and found it was s. When I had come to the door, I was naked, and the tar made me look as though I was covered with blood, and when my saw me she thought I was all mashed to pieces, and fainted. During the affray abroad, the sisters of the neighborhood had collected at my room. I called for a blanket, they threw me one and shut the door; I wrapped it round me and went in.
My friends spent the night in scraping and removing the tar, and washing and cleansing my body; so that by morning I was ready to be clothed again. This being sabbath morning the people assembled for meeting at the usual hour of worship, and among those came also the mobbers; viz , a Campbelite minister; and Pelatiah Allen, Esqr. who gave the mob a barrel of whiskey to raise their spirits; and many others. With my flesh all scarified and defaced, I preached to the congregation as usual, and in the afternoon of the same day, I baptized three individuals.”
went immediately to ; but Joseph remained at ’s to finish his preparations for a journey, which he contemplated making to . Immediatety after ’s arrival at , we met for the purpose of holding a prayer meeting; and, as had not been with us for some time, we hoped to hear from him upon this oc [p. 217]
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