Most of the eight Siberian parishes were very extensive and the work of a Lutheran pastor in those parts was exacting and strenuous. For instance, the pastor in Vladivostok spent three months there at the centre of his parish and nine months travelling to visit those of his 3,000 parishioners who were living in Sakhalin Island, Khabarovsk and even in Kharbin in Manchuria.

You have to open your umbrella, otherwise you'll get wet.

Her Sarah Palin impersonation is dead on!

As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.