Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — The Rock-Painting Crank. [ARTICLE]

The Rock-Painting Crank.

Many people are familiar with the sentences: “Prepare for eternity,” and other words that appear upon the rocks in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. But few people know who paints them. It is George Mayer, a German. He travels most of the time with his paint and brushes. He has put :z,700 sentences upon the rocks sjnce January, and says that every one saves ten souls. He claimed to have saved 520 souls in Paterson, N. J., in one day. He sleeps in barns and gets no pay for his work; but he claims the Lord pays him. He says as soon as he goes to work at anything else the Lord tells him to go to painting ag&m.-'-Rehoboth Sunday Herald.