Spring Harvest

Listening my new White Zombie  album I found a track that featured a sound loop of a manic preacher ranting at the end of a song . This brought back memories of a religious festival I went to with some friends called Spring Harvest . It was held at a bland town called Northallerton I think , near the East coast  . There were 7 of us and an old caravan that on arriving in a muddy field we quickly discovered slept 3 people officially . I slept in my car...
   Anyway one evening a large congregation of several hundred were listening to a preacher who I had never heard the likes off . He was ranting and hyped up . Today I would use the term " Americanised "  . Everyone joined in prayer , heads bowed , when suddenly this man decides to suggest any one who had been unfaithful to their wife or husband ( there wasn't " partners " back then ) and wanted to be forgiven by God should raise their hand and nobody would look up he said . Amazingly he said some he could see some hands raised as we  all had our heads bowed . Very stupid and very dangerous to toy with peoples lives like that . I mean just think of the damage he could or maybe even did do that day ! You can not toy with peoples lives like that . The service was highly charged . He spent a long while building up to this spectacle . I can only imagine the view he must have had from that pulpit and the power . I remember the deep anger I felt but nobody else seemed to find it offencive . This made me even more angry....
  My younger days were spent at various Christian youth groups at weekends and I never witnessed anything like that scene again . It was a one off from " the big boys " of religion .  . Once back home normality resumed , but I was always a little suspicious of a speaker wanting to " out " sin or anyone pushing peoples emotional buttons for any  kind of public admittance of sin . Is this Spring Harvest still going ? Yes it is , but ive been put off for life !