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consisting in frequent calls for those who were mem- 

 bers of any church whatever, to raise their hands, those 

 not raising them becoming objects for the attention 

 of the " stewards." When any of the latter could 

 claim a convert, his name and address were called 

 aloud, and the meeting acclaimed the event with a 

 verse of thanksgiving specially used for that purpose, 

 sometimes repeating it as often as a dozen times in 

 succession. 



During the period of greatest excitement, there 

 grew up from the discordant cries and clapping of 

 hands a strange, surging recitative of four notes 

 repeated with varying phrasing four notes of a minor 

 scale, the manner of using which is illustrated in a 

 general way by the few bars that follow : 



--. * 



The spell of the melody asserted itself ; less melo- 

 dious sounds fell away and ceased. Then for several 

 minutes the new voice alone rose and fell rose to 

 the sub-dominant with force and fervour, clinging to 

 it, as recognising instinctively the peculiarly suppli- 

 catory effectiveness of importunate insistence upon a 

 note in itself characteristically transitional. For the 

 notes that followed during the descent to the tonic 

 were less precatory in their unrepeated brevity, 

 being suggestive, rather, of spiritual dejection and 

 prostration. 



After that a woman's voice ranged over the 



