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Beginning in the Garden of Eden, he graphically described that renowned locality as a type of the Paradise from which Adam Schunk and others who did not "give themselves up" were excluded. "It must have been a magnificent scenery to Almighty Gawd," he said, referring to the beauties of man's first Paradise.
As no one household possesses enough dishes for such an occasion, two chests of dishes owned by the Mennonite church are sent to the house of mourning whenever needed by a member of the Meeting. The Mennonites present suffered a shock to their feelings upon the appearance of the widow of the deceased Adam Schunk, for unprecedented circumstance! she wore over her black Mennonite hood a crape veil!
Adam Schunk, deceased, had been an "Evangelical," but his wife being a New Mennonite, a sect largely prevailing in southeastern Pennsylvania, the funeral services were conducted by two ministers, one of them a New Mennonite and the other an Evangelical. It was the sermon of the New Mennonite that led to Tillie's conversion.
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