Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-08-12
Letter From Countyman In Europe

Editor of MISUNDERSTANDING per
hans some of your readers mignt IKE y
to hear something from us, have ue- +
oidod to write a few lines to your a
naper We, my wife, Lillian and my II
wife,s niece, Miss Hempstone, sailed
sron, baltimore. ON the North German
Iloyd line steamer main" June i4'n
for Bremen, Germany. we hao WV
hundred and forty passengers rom
nearly all parts of our country anu
from nearly all professions or vocatiOhS
in life. majority of LADIES'. Inc
voyage from Baltimore to Bremen 10
.hort four thousand miles; we had a
verv delightful voyage of twelve DAYS
across arriving in Bremen, June Z''h'
After STAYING few days in bremen
NV family and l bought tickets for
our trip, starting entirely independent
and alone, first, through Holland Visi'-
inc Amsterdam The Hague and thence
NV wav of the Hook of Holland across
tho North Sea to Harwich, England
thence to London. We spent SIX
/ DAVIS in Holland visiting mary MS
, toric and otherwise places of interest,
3 Among them the Queens Palace ana
Tho house in the woods where the
: Peace Congress was held. We spent
s twelve days in London, and OF course
d saw right much, for we were oil '"o
n time on the go. 30
The Baptist Worlds Congress y. %
1t which my church did me the honor W
l. annoint me a delegate, which was
ID nroud Of, was indeed very interesting
at 70 me. At the opening when the ron
he Of countries was called it was re,
is snonded to by a delegate from each %
rk the following in five minute speech
er Austria, Hungary, Denmark FINLAND
re France. Germany, Italy, Netherlands
es Norway, Russia, Sweden, United
Kingdom, China, India, Japan congo
or South Africa, National Baptist con
is vention, Southern Baptist Convention
nd Regular Baptist, North, Lott care.
"a convention, Canada, Mexico, Yves
to indies. Australia and New Zealand an
lily manv times following the speeches.
S. colo or the national air of the countr
mt, would be sung in their own tongue an
The then repeated in the English ianguaR
the 7 WAS reminded of the account
,ot- pentecost, "every one speaking IN n
owrl, nouaqe.n DR.. Curtis Lee Law
: a Of baltimore, responded to the ca
on made TO the Southern Baptist 20
VIII vention and the twohundred deiegaC
les, present from the Southern Dap. ~,
'ch, Convention stood up and all sang IN
ork Country It's of Thee" and my 30
am was thrilled as never before. Missio
clip and the best means and measures
oci- be adopted for the extension Vi
arly Redeemer's Kingdom in the wol
art, seemed to be the key note OF the oe
of oress. I saw many from the om'
hort States whom knew and have hes
cues preach.
Liz have been through the hou
bout of Parliament, Westminster ADD
St Paul's Cathedral, and saw bu
wed inpbam Palace king Edward and
gers oueen) and many other nist'
'iven buildings and places. London Is u
the a great city, but behind New
'ank' city in many things modern a
twelve days in London, we eros
naier the channel into France ana n
for been here in beautiful Paris four Oh
omen sightseeing. Much might DC
re OF about Paris had we the time
space. OF this we may say II
Kill later, for my family are conSVa
tand' ON the go sightseeing. After sp
II the ing two weeks in Paris, our ucI
IONS take us to other parts of France
from through Switzerland, stopping
with Iucerne and other places, then
more sail down the Rhine to COLO
ames, thence through Germany'to ORES
n and Berlin. &C., sailing on the ls'
IS and August for New York arrlvln
York about September 1st.
les Do Yours truly
:" May s. r. Nels