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Sewell Van Alstine diary, 1863-1864
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95 Prayer is the electric wire, that connects earth & heaven; through that medium we can make our wants known; Ancient history records that, St Peter was crucified at Rome. Also, that St Paul was beheaded at Rome, during Nero's persecution, St James the son of Alpheus, one of the apostles the one accredited with writing the Epistle of that name, he suffered martyrdom at Jersusalem, The Jewish Passover, or feast of unleavened bread; was instituted to commemorate the deliverance of Israel from bondage in Egypt; which observance consists, in abstaining from eating leavened bread for seven days which is made, unleavened, of the best of wheat flour & cold water, without salt or yeast, rooled out in thin flat cakes, about 6 inches in diameter, & baked in a quick oven, the same as army hard bread, The time of observance about the 20th Apr.
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95 Prayer is the electric wire, that connects earth & heaven; through that medium we can make our wants known; Ancient history records that, St Peter was crucified at Rome. Also, that St Paul was beheaded at Rome, during Nero's persecution, St James the son of Alpheus, one of the apostles the one accredited with writing the Epistle of that name, he suffered martyrdom at Jersusalem, The Jewish Passover, or feast of unleavened bread; was instituted to commemorate the deliverance of Israel from bondage in Egypt; which observance consists, in abstaining from eating leavened bread for seven days which is made, unleavened, of the best of wheat flour & cold water, without salt or yeast, rooled out in thin flat cakes, about 6 inches in diameter, & baked in a quick oven, the same as army hard bread, The time of observance about the 20th Apr.
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