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Updated: May 28, 2025
The subjects upon which I addressed them were as follows, viz.: 'Thou shalt call His name Jesus, 'Thy Word is a Lamp' etc.; 'Understandst thou what thou readest? 'Ye must be born again, 'Can the Ethiopian change his skin? 'What shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 'One thing is needful, 'Give me thy hand, 'Quit ye like men. In addition we had a midnight service on New Year's-eve.
We have had tremendous festivities here a ball on New Year's-eve, and another on the 1st of January and the shooting for Prince Alfred's rifle yesterday. The difficulty of music for the ball was solved by the arrival of two Malay bricklayers to build the new parsonage, and I heard with my own ears the proof of what I had been told as to their extraordinary musical gifts.
The Dutchmen held high jinks in the hall, and danced and made a great noise. On New Year's-eve they will have another ball, and I shall look in. Christmas-day was the hottest day indeed, the only HOT day we have had and I could not make it out at all, or fancy you all cold at home. I wish you were here to see the curious ways and new aspect of everything.
On New Year's-eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself in it so completely, that I forgot my usual New Year's diversion, namely, the wild hunt to Amack. Ah, you don't know what that is! "The journey of the witches on broomsticks is well enough known that journey is taken on St.
And as they gazed, the bells of the church began to ring, for it was New- Year's-eve; and still they clung together, and the bells rang on, and the old year died. And there beneath the eyes of those four men the lovers slowly faded away into a heap of snow-white ashes. Then the four men kneeled down and prayed, and the next day they went to the priest, and told him all that had happened.
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