They are keeping the cause of it secret.

He went over to Big Bethel church the night before, he said, and he listened outside one of the windows to find out what kind of doctrine that crazy bishop was preaching to them.

They was all so worked up, and the power was with 'em so strong, and they was so excited they wouldn't of hearn an army marching by.

He had hearn the bishop deliver a message to his flock from the Messiah.

He had seen him go wild, afterward, and preach an equality sermon.