atherEs practlcal advice for making journey0s, tras
: +r--:_P:qey, I?r tharr h" r,vould not-sehd. ae any
r J' r'ranted. norrd experlence, to do it on try own tlro
to rfve sparlngly. -A1so ror me to have G;a in C'-"y""
, not to irlIl in anything against hlm.
After think_ing over thls rovery letter to me, r uad_e plans
to go to Ha1le. I,iy-Grandfather r,ras [orn-at llalle, and. uy father
had tord' us at tlmes the;; shoulc'L stiil be some reratives there.
-r got read-y for that _t_rip, took leave of rny krost ancl a1r
his family, and.ilso of ay upci" i"v--a"ar Aunty haa passec auay
that year). 
r started. ty trip tor;arJs l,iagd.eburg, i,rhere r stay-
ed- for a feu d-ays to have a root around.. Then on to Gnad.orv
rvhere r remainecl a feu d.ays egai', end. iihere r courd- learn
and love the i.loravians more.
Fron Gnaclolr r r';ent over to Burnbur- c.r-n r^ iI
Arrirri"*-uru"u r rurned. into a Gue"r r{;$;"tfrf;;;"'; ::}l"maae
enquiries of people r^rhose nanes r "orra mention. r soon heard.
that und-er that nane a, ord. rad.y iras "iin 
living a.t ilarre.
Hearing that, r was of e;oca spirils to-rook her up. r brushed.
the d-ust off my traver-s'and. rvent to see her.
As r got.,there, r ,as aslied. into the house. f seened. to
knor'r at once that t'rras in tfre rigirt house as r seemed. tc kna,r
the se.me 1ines of her face as thoie of my father.
r introdttced myself and beggecl to be al-Ioled. Lo visit her.
Also, r dirl not com. to beg, uu[-that J r,ras e tourisb and vrlshed.
to look uD my relatives oi-,rr.,o, *t'-i;t[";*;r; 
.it""'"poken, and
I aiso r,rantea to have " ioot around_ I{aIIe.
After this the orcl ladyr,las so obliging tha.t she called.
herself my Grea_t-Aunty, "i.i-welcomed ;; hearttly to stay viith
her while at Ha1le. sire "a"i=;;-;;*to"get 
my baggage from the
Guest llouser which I g1adly d.id..
Af ter coming beck from the Guest House, there trra.s much
asking and- terring both "ia"= of G.od.ss reading. I.ry Great-
Aunty had, at,s_ome time gon" past, seen my father ert Ratenowe
rchen he vJas stilr a chiId, and- nor,r r came as his son to visit
ab HalIe.
fhe next_d.ay my Great-Aunty gave roders to a ma_:n to shon
ule around- ilarre ancl point out to me arr r,rorthy places. First
i'le r'lent to :rFranks Iiouse' or :rr,Iaifs lto.,"*,, atd_'on r",he front
sid-e rre sar'r il bis retters i1"" .- noTii ,;rhose that r.rait upon
the Lord shalI reneu their stre t1gtliti-.-'
fn the rrhole house complex of the l,Iaif l{ouse, T could. cnly
go.?v9r it quicirly. At tire nonument of A.E. Franke l,rith tvro
I'Ieif boys, erectecl through rove fron tfie staff of ,paif riouse,
l stood a long tj-ne, rnJ"rrthough Franke ancj- his lro],]r na.s noL
quite unknor'rn to ue, r courd. haie re"rnea that hynn which r
later f or.rnd. in iZlnsend.crisr,.
lrPaith can go through steer and. stone and. can grasp the
unknol.,rn.
tralth can c1o lt arr alone, if IIe vdlr let l{lm d.o it.
when one h3" nolhing bubrait[r--iie"lan o.o it arr,
Iie can look at Eartf,ly pro=pect as qulte useress things;,
Mvf
not to si
money. I
feet and.
ancl heart
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