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History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.

CHAPTER XXXV
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There was also a revival of considerable power at Perchenj, another out-station, seven miles from Harpoot.
[1] Mr.Barnum thus describes Miss Fritcher's meeting with seventy or eighty females in this place, two years before: "The chapel was nearly full of women, all sitting on the floor, and each one crowding up to get as near her as possible.

They were very much like a hive of bees.

The slightest thing would set them all in commotion, and they resembled a town meeting more than a religious gathering.
When a child cried it would enlist the energies of half a dozen women, with voice and gesture to quiet it.

When some striking thought of the speaker flashed upon the mind of some woman, she would begin to explain it in no moderate tones to those about her, and this would set the whole off into a bedlam of talk, which it would require two or three minutes to quell." Human nature is everywhere essentially the same.

The people of Hooeli being thus strengthened, they, with a little aid from abroad, erected a larger and finer house of worship, and then began to desire a new minister.


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