| Show THE OTER OVER CUMERS CONERS there Is in ID jerusalem Jeru ealem an american colony widely known both among etive christians christiana lo in palestine and aid among tourists to visiting tilling the ancient ety of david its heau headquarters quarters lo la by lose damascus note gate aud and its members bare baie a reputation for never ceasing co doing among abe poor and seedy needy they seem em to live jive for the sole purpose of 0 lione benefiting fiting their fellow men and ana slight reaBon Jor selecting jerusalem Jeru alem ap w their central place of abode to IB that they expect the be second advent of the son of god and abd desire to be there where they spot expect his HIB appearance to be manpreet it 4 attention to this little colony has ba been called recently by the lace fact that nie bunder has baa been in chicago and gathered nearly dearly seventy follo followers wb now are about tu to join the little fl fi ok ck all inglis ito numbers to about one hundred dundred the leader and aad fou founder odor of the colony ft hr anna wife of the latfy oratio G spafford Spa flord a prominent chloo lawyer A most meet tragic ex X roenee io in hot her life was w the beginning of her new career A friend of mrs Sp spofford Spa flord ufford tells tier her story to a chicago paper as follows fol lowe one summer mrs spafford sailed for europe with the children and was wall in that terrible collision in imd ocean which sunk the ville de havre many perished among them the four lovely children the experience of mrs mra spafford was awful Aak awakened ened in the night and on being told of the danger she gathered her children about her and they all were drawn into the water together one by one she saw them lose their hold on those to whom they clung and drop out of sight eight at af 4 er being in the water for hours mrs spafford Spa fiord was picked up by theother the other and taken to france and her husband was wag called for when they returned to lake view mrs mra spafford was different not in outward appearance or manner but mentally some borne thought she had lost her mind during the awful agony but apparently she wat wai as well as ever she began to advance s range brange religious ideas she announced heri herself self as a prophetess of the lord claiming to have direct communications from him she drew about her a band rf of followers fol lowera and they held meetings in which mysterious manifestations were given mrs spafford was the head and controlled her followers in the details of their daily existence saying that the lord had told her they were to do this and not do that tha tand and they obeyed men and women gave their money and time to the now new cause they 4 called themselves Over comers and there were articles in the press about them the Overcome rall ra finally went to jerusalem with the expectation of seeing the manifested upon mr spafford he was to de be the branch spoken of in in the bible several years year sago ago he died two years ago mrs spafford with part of the colony returned to america leaving most of their people in jerusalem all travel cre who have visited the colony agree that harmony and kandil uese are its predominant fea feature the children do not know what a quarrel ie pious natives contribute milk rice and mutton and visiting strangers Plene generally rally donate something in this way the members are sustained and whatever sardius they have to 18 distributed among the poor the views and methods of mria spafford may in many respects be peculiar but to her works of charity the tact fact is partly due that thai the relations between mohammedan edans and christians christiana are less leai strained in jerusalem then than in some other parts part of the sultan aul tane Is dominions |
