| Show T A BIG MARRIAGE SERVICE american missionary united thirty one couples at once the ne rev A W pitzer set a prett pretty 9 good d pace last week when he married three couples at once but he Is still twenty eight laps behind the record which Is to held by an american mis glenary on the island of alemana this strange wedding where thirty one couples were united at once was solemnized in 1882 all the principal were converted heathens and so well were the marriage bonds tied that ten years later not one ot of the couples was divorced the great wedding was one ot of ne ces cassity sity rather than choice all the couples had signified their intention to be married with christian rites plans were made tor for separate wed dings but a missionary ship was wait ing for the teacher who was to marry the converts and an approaching storm made it necessary for him to read the ceremony with great haste if the natives had bad not agreed to en gage in a wholesale ce remon they would have been condemned in six elz six months more ot of single blessedness blessed nesa eo 0 the great party colnel I 1 right hands end nd assumed the solemn obligations according to their new faith wash ington times |
