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minister, Dr. Phelps....When I again insisted that there [[underlined]] must [[/underlined]] be some mistake she said: "He wrote on the back of the card. Look at it." I turned the card over and there was the address of the church, the hour of the service, and a request that I come fifteen minutes before that time for consultation.

When Sunday came, I took a cab arriving there a little ahead of time and we walked up and down the street and then entered. We found Dr. Frazier in a private room, walking back and forth, dressed in clerical robes and evidently under considerable excitement. I said that this request had evidently caused him some inconvenience and embarrassment and begged that he would excuse us from speaking in his church, adding that I would never have presented the letter if I had been acquainted with the English customs. He replied that he had had a long conversation with the "Indian Princess", and she should speak in his church if it turned the whole kingdom upside down. Then he added that the law required him to hold two services on each Sabbath day, and that the courts had decided that a religious service consisted of a hymn, reading of the scripture, a text, a sermon and a prayer.

He said: "That Indian Princess shall speak in my church. It will not taken more than ten minutes to go through with the legal services, and after that the church shall be yours, whatever happens."