Semi Weekly Standard

Church Struck By Lightning—Hoops Melted.

Sabbath before last a violent thunder storm passed over New Jersey. At Jamesburg, near Amboy, the Sabbath school of the Presbyterian Church was holding its meeting in the afternoon, when the fluid struck the building. It entered the roof, making only a small hole, and descended by the chandelier to the centre of the church, where it exploded.—Quite a number of adults, as well as children, were prostrated by it, and their clothes burnt. Yet no fatal results followed, although some hours, and even days, followed before perfect restoration took place.

But the remarkable feature of it remains to be told. and this is given by a clergyman who received it from one present. It is stated that the ladies who wore brass hoops in their dresses were uninjured, but the hoops themselves were melted! The electric fluid was thus diffused, and perhaps lives saved, by this novel species of conductor.

N. Y. Evangelist.