The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-25

an exasperated condition it was feared
he was either e or gone abroad.
MOTHER ALMOST DISTRACTED.
The poor mother was nearly losing her
senses, and the clergymen was en-
treated to make inquiries.
Nov, what would you do in this
case, countess?' said the clergyman
1T seems impossible to find him.
Pray" answered the countess, "and
then make it known at every meeting
I hold for sailors. l will do Doth d.
rectly.'
Then I went to my meeting and
mentioned the case and was about to
ask the ailor for their help in finding
this lost one On any of their ships,
when a young man arose, deathly pale,
and drew me into an adjoining room.
1 am not at liberty to tell more-ex-
cept that before the clergyman was up
next morning a note from me informed
him that by. this time the lost son was
already in his mothers arms. This case
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anarchist views acknowledge there is a
God after all, and miracles are
wrought in these days."
The third branch of the countess
work concerns the fisherman on the
Baltic Sea. Through the influence of
English friends she has been able to
re-erect the destroyed Fishermen's
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since she had been among them, and
during hat time, to use her own
words, they had not been near any
Christian meeting, their church being
far way and their clergymen being
spiritually dead"
The fishermen in the Baltic Sea, the
countess says, are sadly in need of
religious attention, which can be made
effective by establishing mission halls
in the villages, a kind of mission work
almost unknown in Germany. The
countess believes in a little cheer for
the inner man., and during the first
week when she %reopened the Fisher
mems Home, 1000 mugs of coffee were
| served free.
MISSION HOMES COMING.
Thus far a good commencement has
been made by sending from port to
port the mission cutter 'Taube,'' and
just as soon as funds are provided
mission halls and homes will be estab-
lished.
The fourth department, the spreading
of the gospel by meetings, is one in
which the countess takes much pride,
for through this means she reaches
thousands of people. In 1895, in the
course Of fifteen months, she held 1853
public meetings, and in one fortnight
alone addressed $4,000 people.
Il rejoice in these meetings." said
the countess in a recent interview.
Weak in body, n often tired to
death, with a naturally weak voice, l
have MANY and many a
time stood before thronging crowds
composed of all sorts Of people. My
audiences often contained all classes,
from the municipal authorities to an
archfsts, from ladies' of title to coal
beavers, from police to burglars"
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had invariably to be hired, so great
were the throngs. A socialistic news
paper at Aalborg said:
Nobody and nothing in Denmark,
except our 1st of May meetings, is
able to gather such crowds as the meet
ings held by Countess Schimmelmann.
Yesterday the largest hall in the town
was filled to overlooking, and perhaps
as many as were inside were waiting
patiently outside, blocking the streets
until they saw her going to her
yacht
An ANARCHIST, backed up by his COM
rades, rushed at her in Hamburg one
day and brandishing a stick in her
face cried out with passion:
1--WE are anarchists and won't hear
God spoken Of"
This man can be found now at the
meetings whenever the countess holds
them in Hamburg, and the police say
he is Is meek as a lamb.
LIFE FULL OF ROMANCE.
Countess Schimmelmann's life has
been one Of incident and romance, and
restrain her from devoting her life and
her means to the mission work. And
at one time her relatives sought to
restrain her from devoting her life
and her means to the mission. And
in some countries she meets with op-
position solely because she is a m
In Germany those who oppose her work
do so on the ground that I am a
woman, and as such I must not speak
If tho pOsnel in meetings. eSnecia1lV