Letters to a Gentleman in Germany Written After a Trip From Philadelphia to Nia
Letters to a Gentleman in Germany Written After a Trip From Philadelphia to Nia
Francis Lieber
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— Editoh. ( 312 ) the mourners' bench. On one side are the men, on the other the women; they lie or sit in disorder on the straw, which is strewn on the ground, and was by this time broken into small particles, causing in those places where the people moved much about, dense dust, extremely offen- sive to the lungs. This dust, together with the hot atmo- sphere, poisoned by the breath of so many people crowded into a narrow space, and the smoke of lamps, rendered the interior of the tents veiy ...obnoxious to a spectator coming from' the fresh and pure air without, and not in such a state of excitement as to be insensible to its injurious effects upon the human organs. Along both sides of the mourners' bench kneel " the sinners in a repenting state" who wish to join the faithful; or, overpowered by their feelings or by ex- haustion, they lie on the ground, or in the arms of others, quiet, half faint, exclaiming, groaning or weeping, while, from time to time, the minister or any other "brother" speaks into their ears of impending everlasting damnation, or the bright hope of salvation; and I saw, repeatedly, men taking the hands of women between their hands, and patting and striking them, exhorting them, mean while, to trust in God, or, if they stood at the entrance of the tent as mere spectators, to join those in the interior and to re- pent.
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