Chapter 17 A FAR JOURNEY

With God-over the sea;

Without him-not over the threshold.

-Russian Proverb.

t the time of which I write this, the fall of 1744, Prior Onesimus and his three brothers were in the ascendency, and for a time it seemed as though Brother Beissel would be completely overthrown in his rule by these designing Eckerlings; but they who thought our