Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
On the I held a meeting at a
school house, when William Douglass,
the Methodist minister, came and wanted
me to work a miracle, that he might be-
lieve, and otherwise railed against me.
I told him what class of men asked
for signs, and that he was a wicked and
adulterous man, and predicted that the
curse of God would rest upon him, and
that his wickedness would be made mani-
fest in the eyes of the people. (While
visiting these Islands several years after-
wards I learned that the prediction had
really been fulfilled, and that he was
serving out a fourteen years' term of
imprisonment for a beastly crime).
Mrs. Woodruff crossed the thorough-
fare in a boat and walked ten miles, the
length of the island, to meet me, on the
last day of the year. I held a meeting
the same day in the school house, and at
the close of the meeting baptized two
persons in the sea, at full tide, before a
large assembly.
