THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL — MARCH 28, 1907
Goes in a Trance Daily After Attending Revival Meetings.
A series of revival meetings conducted in Afton, Iowa, by Rev. A. A. Athington, a California evangelist, have had a strange effect upon Miss Mae Mutchlar, a pretty 18-year-old high school girl of that town and daughter of Town Marshal Mutchlar, says the Chicago Chronicle.
Miss Mutchlar up to the present time has always seemed a healthy and well-balanced girl, except that she was of a rather high-strung nature, and has always been a good student and a general social favorite.
Rev. Mr. Athington is said to be a man of commanding and imposing appearance, with much personal magnetism. His voice is strong and musical and he thrills his listeners with his impressive sermons.
One of the most faithful attendants at these meetings was Miss Mutchlar. Her lessons, social pleasures and all other interests were forgotten, and her whole mind seemed concentrated upon the discourses.
At the close of one of the regular meetings Miss Mutchlar suddenly went into a strange sort of a trance which lasted three days. Upon awakening from this sleep it was found that she had lost her power of speech. The minister attributed this to a direct manifestation of the divine power, and prophesied that when her power of speech would return it would be in a strange tongue. True to this prediction she began to talk in a peculiar and hardly intelligible manner one day. Rev. Mr. Athington was
