A Mighty Miracle and Great Evangelism in Cape Cod!?!

     I saw on a TikTok video a claim ( a disputed claim, some sources say) of a great miracle in Cape Cod in the 1600's where a pastor could not get local Native American tribe members to stop sacrificing some hapless person on a certain very large rock, a grisly scene which he came upon while walking along a trail.  They kept ignoring his cries to stop what they were doing.   So, he asked God to stop them directly. And according to the account I read, God did!  There are indeed sites that describe it.  Google AI discourages believing it, but... look into it and decide as you see best.  Here is an excerpt from the Plymouth Rock Foundation website, for instance.  I only offer it up as an account I ran across.   I would like it if it is true, but do not know.  (  https://plymrock.org/the-legacy-of-richard-bourne-the-white-sachem/ ) 

"There are some individuals who came as missionaries to New England that we should honor as true heroes of the faith.  Richard Bourne is one of them.  Born in 1610 in Devonshire, England, he was only 24 when he ended up settling in Saugus, later to be named Lynn.  Being a close friend of Pastor William Leveridge, he joined him and a group of 50 families coming to settle Sandwich in 1637.  He soon married Bathsheba Hallett and became an influential believer in both church and civic affairs.

Pastor Leveridge was a lover of Jesus as well as a lover of people.  He was a student of the Native tongue and soon mastered it that he might share the gospel with them.  He also had the reputation of solving disputes between people bringing peace.  Both traits of loving people in order to share the gospel and resolving disputes, would be passed to his disciple, Richard Bourne.  Bourne’s next door neighbor was also one of the ten landowners of Sandwich, missionary Thomas Tupper.  In 1637, Tupper was 59 and Bourne was 27.  When Leveridge left Sandwich for Long Island in 1654, Thomas Tupper and Richard Bourne continued preaching in the Sandwich Meetinghouse as lay ministers.

Richard wasted no time in reaching out to the Natives, and his work around Herring Pond brought immediate fruit so that later in the same year he was able to birth a church among them and erect a Meetinghouse.  In the year 1646 Bourne was walking the missionary trail and came upon some Natives of dancing and offering sacrifices on a large boulder in Bournedale.  In this case, legend has it that the victim was human.  Bourne threw up his arms declaring “if you do not stop your horrible work I will call upon my God to visit his wrath upon you!”  Being ignored, he continued to warn them, and then directly called upon Jehovah.  A vivid flash of lightning, out of a clear blue sky, split the rock in numerous pieces!  Needless to say this “Praying Indian village” increased with new converts so that it soon numbered 180!  Over a hundred years later objective scientists with no knowledge of the incident were asked how the rock split.  Their conclusion?  It had to be split by lightning!  One can still view this rock, and every part of the story can be imagined in viewing the large pieces."  End Quote

     Thank you to the Plymouth Rock Foundation for posting this article on their website.  I used the excerpt posted above for educational purposes only.