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enthusiastic about the building of a new church 

 which was much needed, and had been trying to 

 fire his parishioners with the zeal which he him- 

 self felt. On this particular morning he made an 

 appeal for co-operation and funds, and then asked 

 for a generous oiFering. The good people of the 

 congregation had hardly warmed to the subject, and 

 their response was rather feeble. Another collection 

 was made with somewhat better results, but still the 

 amount was not raised by half. At last Mr. Kummer, 

 who no doubt believed that the end justified the 

 means, faced his people and said playfully, yet with 

 evident determination, " Now I am going to order 

 the doors bolted, that none may leave the house until 

 this matter is settled !'' In less than ten minutes the 

 two thousand dollars necessary was obtained by dona- 

 tion or subscription, and the zealous clergyman looked 

 down upon his people in happy approval. The scene 

 was the most unusual one of the kind which I had 

 ever witnessed, and I was tempted to applaud the 

 generalship which won the situation. Dr. Kummer 

 afterward gave me quite a lively description of his 

 field, in which he had become much interested. 



Lying on rising ground just within a little bay, at 

 whose western extremity a lighthouse stands, Dun- 

 kirk forms a natural port of refuge, in bad weather, 

 and although in comparison with Buffalo its commercial 

 importance seems rather insignificant, there is quite a 

 brisk trade carried on by ship and by rail. Three 

 lines centre here, connecting it with the East and 

 West, and with the coal and oil regions of Pennsyl- 

 vania, while the incoming and outgoing vessels are 

 continually plying back and forth with their valuable 



