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lt;11111 untrueu wiui tilts b*This work has begun amid the intenseat opposition on the part of the former religions (?) monopolists, and it is possible that I may be broken down in it, but I count that morning service as the greatest of my life, and if 1 go down, physically, or as a result ot calumny, there will be whole regiments of workers to take my place. U'he first great necessity is a cemetery where these people can be buried, when * y consent to face the results of excommunication. They cannotbe buried in a Roman cemetery, and there are no others open for them. We must have one.! I have been negotiating for a place arrtl expect to have the papers completed next week. The provost marshal general has approved the locationand the enterprise. I am trying to raise at least $3,000 or $4,000, and asking my friends to pay tor the ground at the rate of $1.00 per square yard; so that we can say to the natives: “Fear not what man may do unto you. Here is a place where you can be laid to rest when God calls you, and without fee for priest or pay for land; and in it you shall be buried, j not on the Spanish plan of yearly rental j and penalty of removal to the bone-pile i when payment fails but on the good American plan, with assurance of undisputed possession till God's angel sounds your reveille.” Chaplain Fleming of the Colorado regiment is working with me in this matter, and it is the intention to transfer the lots to our church, ultimately, upon this express condition that there shall be no fees for clergy orfor land, and that space shall be available for Jill who arc, excluded from Roman soil. If you find anybody who wants to be a sharer in this work, please tell him where we live.As to our needs about which you so1 1 1 1 . ^ A rf-. A. m m m a-w * St • TT 4
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Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Mon, Jun 12, 1899
Page 6
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MD, USA 19 Apr 2020
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