Line 0.0.0 WANDERING CHURCH.

Line 0.0.1 During the floods in Ohio and the

Line 0.0.2 neighbouring States of the Middle

Line 0.0.3 West, a wooden church, which had

Line 0.0.4 been washed from its foundations,

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Line 0.0.6 Ohio River.

Line 0.0.7 There was nothing to show where

Line 0.0.8 the church had come from or the de-

Line 0.0.9 nomination of the people who had

Line 0.0.10 worshipped in it. It had a belfry

Line 0.0.11 with a bell weighing about half a

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Line 0.0.13 voyage the structure had suffered lit-

Line 0.0.14 tle damage. The inhabitants of the

Line 0.0.15 township in which it landed had had

Line 0.0.16 their own church destroyed by the

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Line 0.0.18 They gladly accepted the gift of the

Line 0.0.19 river, hastened to dig a foundation

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Line 0.0.21 church to it. If the original congre-

Line 0.0.22 gation learns of its whereabouts and

Line 0.0.23 attempts to claim the church some

Line 0.0.24 curious legal entanglements may

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Line 0.0.26 In the meantime, the church is do-