Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal
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 believe, 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 manifest in the eyes of the people. (While visiting
these islands several years afterwards I learned that the pre-
diction had really been fulfilled, and that he was serving out a
fourteen years' term of imprisonment for a beastly crime).
Mrs. Woodruff crossed the thoroughfare 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.
