Tuesday morning we were up and ate breakfast in the hotel's free breakfast room. My ten year old doesn't eat until she has been up for and hour or so. She couldn't eat and watching the rest of us eat made her sick so she threw up in the hotel lobby restroom. Our day wasn't starting out to well.:( We boarded the hotel shuttle van and it took us to the train station. From there we rode the city train, city bus, city subway. This was a first for some of our party. Jess began to feel better and finally we were in historic Philadelphia. It made us all feel better and more at home to ride the horse and carriage. Our horse's name was Spot. Our driver said he was the "best Spot in Philly". We passed out many tracts as we walked the streets. Bro. Matt Fuerst and Bro. McGonigal did some street preaching. At one street corner our whole group sang ,"O Happy Day" as we waited for the bus. Many people walked on reading the gospel tracts and some threw them away. One young man read the front of the tract, "Heaven or Hell" and said, "We don't like Heaven." How sad!! My eyes filled with tears after this comment and my heart was broken for these people hustling and bustling about with never a seeming thought about their eternal destiny.
Can't wait to see more of your Philly story. I'm sittin here in VA in my Philly shirt. The neighbor said "you're obviously from Philadelphia." Come to find out she was born not too far from where we live. Its a small world... I really enjoyed getting to go with ya'll. Thanks for making it happen. I love to read after you.
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