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1912-08-15 Page 28
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-28- plans. I thought of Thomas Shilito;--when he was detained in Petersburg, Russia for two weeks. And there he saw the great overflow of water; and the drowning of a large number of stock; and so many houses taken to sea. Ida said to me, "Joel, I have told thee several times since we left here before, that we would have to come here again and have a meeting in this town. I said to her, "I am willing. Then we had a person find a suitable house for us. We put it in the paper saying: "We are Quakers from America, Ida Chamness and Joel Johnson will hold a religious meeting here (at such a place) at eight o'clock at night. There was another religious meeting advertised in the paper, for the same hour that our meeting was; near by the house we had engaged. So that it was thought we would not have many, if any at our meeting at all. (But Ida could not give it up.) When the hour came for us to go to the meeting (it was a rainy evening) and Ida still bed-fast and quite poorly, but got ready and went. The lady we boarded with went with us. We had rented only half of the house for seven crowns. That part was completely filled; and there was not enough room. They told us we could have
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-28- plans. I thought of Thomas Shilito;--when he was detained in Petersburg, Russia for two weeks. And there he saw the great overflow of water; and the drowning of a large number of stock; and so many houses taken to sea. Ida said to me, "Joel, I have told thee several times since we left here before, that we would have to come here again and have a meeting in this town. I said to her, "I am willing. Then we had a person find a suitable house for us. We put it in the paper saying: "We are Quakers from America, Ida Chamness and Joel Johnson will hold a religious meeting here (at such a place) at eight o'clock at night. There was another religious meeting advertised in the paper, for the same hour that our meeting was; near by the house we had engaged. So that it was thought we would not have many, if any at our meeting at all. (But Ida could not give it up.) When the hour came for us to go to the meeting (it was a rainy evening) and Ida still bed-fast and quite poorly, but got ready and went. The lady we boarded with went with us. We had rented only half of the house for seven crowns. That part was completely filled; and there was not enough room. They told us we could have
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