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aaaa»tIIaar,trt.t,sey‘8r«**A Maine Wokum:$h Jaffa Awaifciwg Christ'sSecond Coming.An interesting story came to the sur-fgcat Friday’s midweek 'meeting at the old Stone church. The Hoh, O-eorge H. Bly related an incident of 'woman’s faith that came under his notice during a recent-trip through the Holy Land. In company with four or five tourists, Mr. Bly was seated on .a piazza of a hotel in Jaffa when his attention was attracted to half a dozen hoys playing in.the street below. All hut one of the hoys had swarthy complexions characteristic of the country, and the one exception was light complexioned,.with perfect Caucasian features. ®“That boy,” said one of the gentlemen, “looks to me as though he belonged to the streets of Hew York instead of Jaffa.” Their interest in the little fellow was aroused to such an ex-. tent that they went down to inquire, and to their surprise he spoke a little English. He said he lived with his mother a short distance up the street, and the party, including Mr. Ely, walked up street and entered the woman’s house, ’ which proved to be a hovel of the worst kind. They addressed her in English, and she was beside herself with joy to hear her native tongue spoken, and to their utter astonishment she told them that her home is in Maine.“Maine, my good woman! What in the world are you doing here?” asked one of the party.The woman then explained that many years since a number of men and women in the Maine village she came from were carried away with the idea that the second coming of Christ was near at hand, and that when he does come he will first xx appear in Palestine. A colony scraped ■ up all their savings of years, and with I their families they emigrated to Jaffa to . t he on hand when Jesus appears.doyai-rhityaykti-ita3-ISlQ“Do they all live here?” was asked, ■“They did,” she replied, “but some of them, discouraged and tired of waiting, ,t ; went back to America, the rest died,b»nI,and I am here all alone with my boy,” “And how do you support yourself?” “By washing for strangers, and I have a hard time doing it. Some weeks all I L0 ' can do is to keep from starvation.”). j One of the men told the woman that Jaffa was no place for her and advised ie her to go back to America with her boy, it give him a good American education and' r , bring him up as an American citizen,| but .the woman simply smiled at the sug-3, gestion.r- | Returning to the hotel, the gentlemen, all of whom were well to do, figured outIthe cost of sending the woman and her | boy back to her native village in Maine, y made up a purse and threw in enough I for incidental expenses and spending j money. This done, they offered her the : money—and a good round sum it was— xx but she absolutely refused to touch a penny of it.“This is quite a temptation,” she said, “but* I came here to await the second :e ' coming of Christ, and I intend to remain i- here until he comes, unless I die first.”5e That was her ultimatum, and no k amount of argument could dissuade her i- from her course.—Cleveland World.I -re
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Watertown Re Union
Watertown, New York, US
Wed, Jun 14, 1893
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