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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
While moving around Freehold I watch for activities that might mean sin is moving into our city. Fortunately, I do not see trouble, like smelling marijuana, very often. This past year I've been especially vigilant for the burning of sage.
Sales of sage have increased by multiples in the past four years. It is used by savage Indians to connect with their fake spirits.
White people don't seem to realize it is a form of witchcraft. There is only one word for sage, demonic. I was happy to read another church also sees the demonic aspects of this terrible substance.
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I never thought I’d see the day again when the burning of sage hit the headlines. I believed that the heathen practise had been eradicated back in 1930 with the “Freehold Sage Disaster.”
Back in the day, Pastor Lamentations Flint was at a Christian conference about Rural Poverty in Hawaii and his place had been taken by XXX. After the service, Malachi Price mentioned so someone that he was going to grow a harvest of sage on his land. The idea was to corner the market at Thanksgiving and nobody thought any more about it.
The crop must have been brought in somewhere in September and set aside to dry. It was then that Pastor L Flint had his first case of Demon Possession to deal with since that March. The child was foaming green at the mouth and had an earthy, but not unappetizing, smell about it. The devil was beaten out of the child but a few days later another appeared, and then another… The source had to be found and yet the children were unable to help. Once having had the devil beaten out of them, they seemed to lose all memory of what had happened.
There were several stories about a man some 8’ tall being seen at dusk near The Old Bridge, and there were tales of children digging for treasure in the Old Injun Graveyard, but nothing ever came of these. Prayer Warriors worked night and day for an answer; new Bibles were given out to the needy; Biblical instruction was increased from 4 hours to 6 hours on a Sunday, Pastor L Flint was almost at his wits’ end but a steady stream of children with the symptoms kept appearing.
In a sermon memorable for the passion with which it was given, the curses that were laid upon the malefactor, and 26 cases of members fainting through fright of the torments of Hell, Pastor L Flint called upon The Host of Heaven to reveal unto him the source of the witchcraft. The Great Hall fell silent. It was a silence as deep as the grave – I can remember my father, who had a way with words, being so impressed that he did away with Biblical references by saying “It was as if you could hear a mouse pissing on cottonwool or like the silence when everyone’s quiet.”
The silence did not last long before a wail of a soul taken by Satan pierced the Great Hall and Malachi Price made a run for the door. The congregation was in uproar but Pastor L Flint silenced them with a great cry of “
HE HAS BEEN REVEALED! THE LORD HAS SPOKEN” The congregation turned and Pastor L Flint added the immortal theological dictum “M't:7:12: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12…
And if you are Christians you would want to be put to death!”
The mob left the church and took to the road and the Price place. Even the swiftest were too late, Malachi Price’s John Deere tractor was one of the fastest vehicles in the county, and by the time the mob reached the place, smoke was billowing out from the sage-drying barn and flames licked through the house.
Pastor L Flint organised a bucket chain, but as the nearest water was 3 miles away, by the time the first bucket arrived there was little left but the ashes and the 6 bodies that were the Price family. Worse still, those near the smoke were reporting vision, in equal amounts, of Heaven and Hell. Stakes were driven through the hearts of each family member and they were buried in unmarked graves.
It later transpired that Malachi Price had been enticing local children to work as unpaid labor in turning the sage. To keep costs down, he’d fed them sage and moonshine. It was clear that it was the sage that did it – it allowed the entry of demons into the children.