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Show ; STILL ON EARTH. Chicago Girl Who Expected to Be Translated Trans-lated to Heaven Sorely Disappointed. A Chicago correspondent says ! Thirty-five Thirty-five girls were grievously disappointed on Sunday. For nine weeks they had fondly expected to be translated from earth to heaven in a-body, but the ascent as-cent did not come off according to expectations. ex-pectations. The event was to have taken place on Sunday from Hyde park. At 5487 Madison avenue there 3tands a little church, the pastor of which is the Rev. O. A. Larson. He is a Swede, and the Bmall congregation is made up of that nationality, Swedish servant girls predominating. pre-dominating. . The members of the congregation call themselves the "Children of God." It is in this church that for the past nine weeks a small company of fanatics have almost literally "prayed without ceasing." ceas-ing." According to the peculiar doctrines of this church, its members are thechosen people of God, and Sunday wm fixed upon.- as the millennium, for if was the day on which they were to leave the world and pass to eternal felicity, i Accordingly the members of the con gregation prepared themselves for the great event. On Sunday morning early 35 Swedish girls assembled in Parson Larson's church for the expected ascent. They knew not the hour, but they were certain the event was to occur, and they waited patiently and reverently for it. All day long and far into the night they sat in prayer waiting to be called away, but the call never came. Tired out at last, they left the church a disappointed disap-pointed company, but 6till firm in the faith that they would yet be called to heaven at so distant day, |