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National Geographic : 1908 Sep
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'IHE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE THE CELEBRATION AT MITTELTAL (SEE PAGE 649) The chimes in the little Gothic tower which announces the hour of worship each Sunday morning summon willing worshipers; troops of men, bareheaded women, and barefooted children flock with unequal paces to the temple of wor ship, cheerily chatting along the way. In the corridor of the church they sepa rate-the men occupy the galleries; the women, the nave, while the children flank the altar, the girls occupying the right and the boys the left. Thus grouped about him, the minister may conven iently address his remarks to any age or sex. The sermon is usually on the old fashioned order, against that old fashion inaugurated by Adam-sin; and the con gregation leaves the church with a ri-onger faith in that still older fash ion-immortality. * Betrothals 'are announced by the min ister from the pulpit with a request for the prayers of the church for the guid ance of the newly plighted; and after the service the congregation waits in front of the entrance while the clerk of the community announces the new edicts and laws of the mayor and council that may have been issued during the past week. The Sabbath, however, is not the only day which brings immunity from toil; the observance of some national event or the celebration of some local society oc casionally interposes a holiday. Once every year entrance examinations for the army are held in the various localities, and this furnishes the occasion for gen eral hilarity among the young men who have passed the examination successfully and are to enter the military life for two years. I have recorded in my notes a typical festive occasion, the events of a bright day in June. We were awakened early 648
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