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Yours truly,
W. H. DUNBAR.
THE QUARTERLY WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS
went into effect at the end of the first quarter, and con- sisted of twenty questions on the lessons of that time. Some twenty-five persons took the printed slips furnished by the school, and all of these passed and will receive a certificate. Four certificates will entitle the holder to a diploma.
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The Vacation Envelope
was first used June 25, 1893, and is for a Sunday school record during absence from the city, with a plan to note offerings enclosed for the home school. These are to be handed in on the return from summer vacation, or other absence from the city.
MARYLAND SYNOD REPORT.
The Maryland Synod report of 1892 gives St. Paul's Sunday school the twelfth in point of membership and the first for collections of all the Sunday schools in the synod, and the Lutheran Observer, of March 24, 1893, gives St. Paul's as the seventeenth largest school in that body. "Marching on."
MEMBERSHIP.
Gains and losses first six months of 1893:
Gained.
56
Lost. 23
Net gain
33
Enrollment, June 30, 480.
MISCELLANEOUS, 1892.
Attendance: Largest, April 17, 340. Smallest, July
31, 137
Collections: Largest, November 13, $125.57. Small- est, August 14, $6.79.
Attendance first Sunday, 255; attendance fifty-second Sunday, 234.
Collection first Sunday, $12.63; collection fifty-second Sunday, $III. 79.
Largest monthly offering, November, $169.89. Smallest monthly offering, August, $30.52.
Total increase in membership in 1892, 67.
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First Six Months, 1893.
Attendance: Largest, April 2, 368. Smallest, Jan- ary 1, 160.
Collections: Largest, February 26, $77.62. Smallest: January 1, $9.73.
Largest monthly offering, April, $155.07. 3 Smallest monthly offering, May, $67.92.
The Sunday school is largely represented in the Christian Endeavor Society, which was first organized nearly three years ago by the superintendent and a few teachers and scholars of the school. In it the Sunday- school member finds an open door for christian activity and usefulness, and a training especially valuable in the direction of fitness for the position of teachers.
Meetings in 1892 and 1893 .- A number of important business meetings were held in the lecture room.
The Monday evening meeting for the study of the lesson has been well attended and much interest shown. This is one of the best hours of the week, and a source of great help and blessing. Others are invited to at- tend it.
The Council in the Sunday School .- Of the members of the council and officers of the church the following are in the Sunday school: Dr. S. Domer, Mr. John C. Parker, Mr. M. M. Rouzer, Mr. B. Frank Meyers, Mr. H. H. Seltzer, Mr. John F. McClain, and Mr. Edward T. Kaiser.
They are all helpful to the superintendent, class and school. The first six are teachers and Mr. Kaiser is a member of Mr. McClain's class.
These teachers-prompt, regular, and attentive-are an example to others and a credit to church and school.
The superintendent desires to have all the council at work in the school.
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Veterans in Sunday School and Service.
Rev. S. Domer, D. D., pastor, teacher; Mr. L. D. Alden, superintendent and teacher; Mr. A. F. Fox, secretary, treasurer, assistant superintendent, teacher; Mr. G. F. Muth, librarian, teacher; Mr. J. F. McClain, teacher; Mr. John C. Parker, teacher; Mr. Elder Mc- Williams, teacher; Miss Annie Eckbert, teacher; Miss Emma O. Meyers, teacher; Mr. B. Frank Meyers, secre- tary and teacher; Miss Grace E. Fox and Miss Margaret R. Fox, organists and teachers; Mrs. Joseph Eckhardt, teacher ; Miss Clara Meyers, teacher ; Miss Belle F. Leeds, teacher ; and Miss Frances Augusterfer, Miss Jennie Barron, Miss Minnie Brower, Miss Margaret R. Hubert, Miss Nellie Mosheuvel, Miss Annie Eckhardt, teachers.
Other veteran members: Mr. Charles Webel, librarian and scholar; Mr. Thomas F. Pendel, teacher and scholar; Mr. J. A. Weigle, teacher and scholar; and Mrs. John C. Parker, Miss Bettie Suman, Miss Bella Bartells, Miss Mollie Davis, Miss Katie Decker, Miss Sophie Pitchlynn, Mr. Emil G. Schafer, Mr. Harry M. Schneider, Mr. Franck L. Ourand, Mr. C. H. Ourand, Mr. Everett E. Pitchlynn, Mr. Lee Pitchlynn, Mr. Edward T. Kaiser, Mr. J. Granville Meyers, Mr. Charles Meyers, Mr. Wm. A. Domer, Mr. Ferd Schneider, Mr. Joseph Eckhardt, Mr. Andrew McClain, Mr. Win. Harr, Miss Addie Harr, Mrs. Lou Hensey, Miss Emma Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Meyers, Miss Kate Rawlins, Mr. J. J. Viet, Mrs. E. G. Hines, Mrs. I. G. Walker, Mr. Henry Orth, Mr. Phil. E. Muth, Mr. Win. P. Belt, Mr. Howard Griffith, Mr. George R. Linkins, scholars.
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July, 1893, Notes and Records.
Mr. Henry Raabe and Miss Ella House appointed teachers July I. Miss Zada Kemp, teacher, resigned and left the city July I.
NEW MEMBERS.
Mr. L. H. Middlekauf, adult department.
Jennie Viedt, Emma Viedt, Naomi Matthews, Marion McClain, intermediate department.
Sadie Duffy, Elwood Gott, Folley Howard, Alice Mahoney, Edith Schneibel, Flora Viedt, Julius Viedt, Pauline Viedt, primary department.
AN ACCIDENT.
During this month Mr. Henry Raabe, newly ap- pointed teacher, met with a serious accident while riding on his bicycle, and was taken to the Garfield Hospital for treatment. He is, at the last accounts, improving, and it is hoped his injuries may not be of a permanent character.
The record for this month surpasses all previous ones for a like period. The average attendance was 218. The class offerings amounted to $57.77, $11.55 per Sunday, or 50 cents per member. This makes the class offerings for the first seven months of 1893, $670. 37.
During this month 13 new members were admitted, and one teacher, Miss Zada Kemp, dropped from the roll. The enrollment is now, at the end of July, 492, a net gain during the present year of 45 members, or an increase of 10 per cent.
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The Jubilee Meeting.
The jubilee meeting of the Sunday school took place on Sunday afternoon, April 16, 1893, at 3 o'clock, in the audience room of the church, in the presence of a large number of invited guests, many of whom had at some time in past years been members of the school, and among whom were many former officers and teachers. The Sunday school was present with full ranks.
Seated in front of the beautifully decorated platform, and inside of the chancel rail, were all of the living ex-superintendents, with two exceptions, Mr. Louis Heyl, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Mr. George E. W. Sharretts, of this city. Those present were Rev. J. A. Graeff, Mr. A. S. Pratt, Mr. Joseph L. Enderle, Mr. Geo. W. Linkins, and Mr. Thomas F. Pendel, as also Mr. David Fowble, original member and officer of the school at its organization fifty years ago; and with them Rev. Dr. J. G. Morris, Rev. Dr. S. Dommer, the pastor, and Mr. Lucius D. Alden, who has been superintendent since July 1, 1878. Pastors, officers, teachers, and other members were present from not only Lutheran, but schools of other denominations in this city, a jubilee circular having been mailed not only to all of our own members, but to many former ones, and to the friends and Sunday-school workers at large a beautiful card of invitation was mailed previous to the jubilee Sunday. Many prominent superintendents of other schools were present.
The music was under the direction of Mr. George F. Muth, a veteran member, and the organists of the pipe and cabinet organs were two of our present teachers, Misses Grace E. and Margaret R. Fox. Miss Clara Ruth and Messrs. Joseph Finckel and Lee Crandall were
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violinists, with Mr. C. Feige as bass, and Mr. Elphonzo Youngs, cornetist. The hymns sung were from Living Hymns, the Sunday-school book.
At a few moments past three o'clock, with the church full of its members and friends, the exercises began with the opening chorus, "Marching on, Rejoicing; " after that the reading of the Scriptures, the 48tl Psalm, by the superintendent ; then prayer by Mr. Enderle, a former superintendent, Rev. H. B. Belmer's pastorate, followed by the jubilee chorus, "Awake, Awake,".and the singing by the primary department of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The pastor, Rev. Dr. S. Domer, then delivered an address of welcome to the many friends present, and responses were made as follows at the call of the superintendent: On the part of first pastors and superintentents, Rev. J. E. Graeff, pastor in charge 1846-'49. On the part of the original mem- bers of the school, Mr. David Fowble, of Westminster, Md., member and teacher in 1842, at the first organiza- tion of the church and school, now represented in the Sunday school by his daughter, Mrs. John C. Parker, member of the adult department, and one of the two members whose prior enrollment dates back of 1860. On the part of other former superintendents, Mr. A. S. Pratt, 1863 to 1873; Mr. Joseph L. Enderle, IS74; Mr. George W. Linkins, 1875-'77 ; and Mr. Thomas F. Pendel, 1877-'78. Relatives and friends of Mr. J. G. Weaver, deceased, superintendent from 1848 to 1858, were pres- ent; a letter was received from Mr. George E. W. Shar- retts, superintendent from 1858 to 1860; and friends of Mr. Louis Heyl, who filled the office from 1861 to 1862, represented him.
"Glory to His Name" was sung, and greetings from other Lutheran Sunday schools were extended as fol- lows: From the inother church and school, Concordia, by Rev. Ernest Drewitz, pastor, through Dr. Domer;
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from the morning school of the Memorial, by Mr. Win. H. Finckel, teacher, in the absence of the superintendent, Mr. Robert B. Kinsell. Mr. Finckel was a former teacher in St. Paul's, and, with others of the family of the late Dr. Samuel G. Finckel, amongst its most active workers during Mr. Pratt's period of service.
In response to his greeting, the superintendent of St. Paul's stated that his sister, Miss Annie M. Finckel, who died in November, 1865, spoke the words that decided him to join the church in September, 1865, he then becoming a member of St. Paul's.
Greetings from the afternoon Memorial school were presented by Mr. Geo. W. Callahan, its secretary, in the absence of Rev. Dr. J. G. Butler, the superintendent. Mr. Callahan was also once a teacher at St. Paul's. Greet- ings followed from Zion's school, presented by Mr. M. E. May, one of the teachers of that school, and from St. Mark's (St. Paul's own) by the Rev. W. H. Gotwald, pastor of that church.
Letters were also read from Rev. Dr. J. G. Butler, pas- tor and superintendent of the Memorial afternoon school, formerly pastor and teacher at St. Paul's; from Mr. I. C. Slater, superintendent of the school of the Church of the Reformation, himself a former teacher also at St. Paul's; and from Rev. Charles H. Butler, pastor and superintendent of the Keller Memorial, and once a mnem- ber of St. Paul's primary department.
A beautiful hymn, "We Shall Walk with Him in White," was then sung, after which came greetings by letter from other friends and schools-from Mr. John B. Wight, superintendent of the First Presbyterian Sunday School, and vice-president of the International Executive Committee; from Mr. P. H. Bristow, super- intendent of the big school at Calvary Baptist, and vice-president of the Sunday-School Union of this city, of which Mr. Alden is president ; from Rev. George J.
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Jones, of the Tabernacle Congregation, and from Mr. John B. Sleman, superintendent of the Sunday school at the Protestant Orphan Asylum.
It was a matter of great regret that time would not permit the many superintendents present, representing prominent Sunday schools in this city, opportunity to speak a word for St. Paul's and its work, well known to them all, and whose superintendent had been bene- fited by personal acquaintance and associated work with them in the Sunday-School Union. There were present of these : Jerome F. Johnston, of the First Congrega- tional ; J. L. Ewen, of Foundry Methodist ; T. B. Towner, Hanline Methodist; F. C. Stier, Mount Vernon Methodist ; H. C. Stier, Garfield Christian ; A. H. McBath, Assembly Presbyterian ; C. H. Carrington, North Presbyterian; Weston Flint, New York Avenue Presbyterian, and Dr. D. P. Hickling, Trinity Epis- copal.
After this rich and enjoyable feast of greetings the primary department sang their anniversary hymn of praise ; most beautifully, too.
The superintendent then with brief remarks alluded to the " In Memoriam " roll, mentioning brothers J. G. Weaver, I. N. Kalb, John H. McCormick, deceased superintendent and assistants, and many others, teachers and scholars, there being twenty-three deaths since July 1, 1878.
" Meet Me There " was then sung by the school, after which a brief report of the condition of the school was presented by the secretary, Mr. J. Granville Meyers, Jr., showing the membership of the school on the jubilee day as follows : Adult department, 10 teachers, 132 scholars, total, 142; intermediate, 20 teachers, 180 scholars, total 200; and primary, 3 teachers, 125 scholars, a total of 128; 30 classes and a membership of 470. All officers class members.
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The first quarter of the year was the star quarter in the history of the school to date, the average attend- ance being 271, and the average Sunday class offering $20.66, or 73 cents per member present. The star Sunday was Easter, 368 present, and $71.61 class offer- ings. The attendance this morning was 365, and the offering $33.83. The outlook for the year was reported as exceedingly fine.
The banner of attendance was awarded Miss Belle F. Leeds' class for this year as far as noted, and that for class offerings to Mr. Albert F. Fox's class. At this point in the exercises the pastor was called away to visit a home and family in affliction.
"Steadily Marching On" was then sung by the school, after which, all standing, the entire audience joined in singing " At the Cross," and the Rev. Charles H. Butler having arrived from his school, the benedic- tion was pronounced by him.
Then followed a scene of intense interest. Many former members were eager to meet and greet the leaders of the school in other years, and the latter to greet them. Many smiles, some tears, were seen, 'as the past was recalled in the living present. Teachers and scholars clasped hands for the first time in many years, and former superintendents saw their teachers once more gather around them, and in the present offi- cers and teachers saw those who were in many cases the scholars of their day and time.
Full accounts of this service were printed in all of our daily newspapers, and the meeting was justly noted as being a remarkable and most successful one. The former and present members of St. Paul's joined to- gether then, as they will not again this side of the Golden City, where they sing the Song of Moses and the Lamb.
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The following former teachers were noticed as being present: Mrs. Annie Spier, appointed teacher in 1845, · Miss Hettie Linkins, Miss Annie Ourand, Miss Lillian Chauncey, Mrs. E. D. Tracy, Mrs. A. L. Nairn, Mrs. C. A. Davis, Mrs. Mary M. E. (Keen) Woodruff, Mr. George W. Callahan, Mr. Wm. G. Finckel, Joseplı L. Enderle, and Mr. Upton H. Ridenour, who was a teacher for some ten years in the 1850's and 1860's, and who numbered among his scholars Charles Utermehle and Martin Luther Noerr. Dr. W. K. Butler, eldest son of the pastor of the Memorial, and a member of the first class of our present superintendent when made a teacher at St. Paul's in 1869, was also present, as were Miss Hattie E. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schreiner, Miss Yaeger, Mrs. Rose Hedges, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Schreiner, and many other former members of the school.
Our own veteran members were present and assisted in many ways to make the service a mnost pleasant one, meeting and greeting the numerous friends as they ap- peared upon the scene. Mr. Albert Fox, Mr. George F. Muth, Mr. John C. Parker, Mr. John F. McClain, Mr. Thomas F. Pendel, Mr. J. A. Weigle, Mr. Frank Ourand, Mr. Charles H. Ourand, Mr. Emil G. Schafer, Mr. Harry M. Schneider, and many others, ranging in order from thirty years' continuous service to a shorter period. These with the superintendent bore testimony to the fact of never graduating from the Sunday school, a lesson taught them by Mr. A. S. Pratt.
The following is the circular and card of invitation mailed prior to the jubilee to members and friends at large ; also the correspondence already alluded to :
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IS43. 1893.
" A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you."
Leviticus, 25 : II.
ST. PAUL'S ENGLISH LUTHERAN SUNDAY SCHOOL, Corner Eleventh and H Streets Northwest.
Washington, D. C., April 13th, 1893. DEAR FRIEND :
The year of jubilee has come, and on Sunday next, April 16th, we will hold our regular and an extra session of the school, with fitting programmes for each. The in- vited guests of the church from abroad will be present at 9.30 A. M. and at the jubilee meeting of the Sunday school at 3 P. M .. in the andience room of the church, when we expect to have with us a number of ex-superin- tendents, officers, teachers, and other members ; also rep- resentatives from the Lutheran and other Sunday schools of this city. Both meetings will be occasions of far more than ordinary interest, in which you as a member and friend will be glad to take part, and of which I trust you will carry pleasant remembrance down the pathway of life. Be sure to attend both morning and afternoon, if you are able to be out. We hope to see over 405 present, the room full, and our record surpassed. Will you not be one of the number? You can help make it so and I de- sire to see and greet you.
We will have a jubilee offering. Invite the parents to attend.
Come and bring some friend with you to enjoy the de- lightful occasion. It will be a most fitting time for former members to re-enter the Bible school of the church and for others also to become members of the school.
The music will be from "Living Hymns," Mr. George F. Muth, director, and the singing accompanied by the following :
VIOLINS-Miss. Clara Ruth. Mr. Joseph Finckel. Mr. Lee Crandall. BASS-Mr. C. Feige.
ORGANS-Misses Grace E. and Margaret R. Fox. PIANO-Mr. Edward Muth.
CORNET-Mr. Elphonzo Youngs.
A happy jubilee to you and yours. If sick, rest assured of my sympathy and prayers that God may bless and heal you. May his peace be yours on that day and ever- more.
In Christian love,
LUCIUS D. ALDEN. Superintendent.
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1843. I893.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
OF ST. PAUL'S ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH, S. W. corner of 11th and H Sts. N. W ., Washington, D. C., will celebrate its 50th anniversary and jubilee on Sun- day afternoon, April 16, 1893, at 3 o'clock, with a pro- grammime of great interest to all friends of the church and school. You are invited to be present, take part in the services, and meet with the present and former pas- tors, officers, teachers, and scholars of the school
In Christian love,
LUCIUS D. ALDEN, Superintendent.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16, 1893.
MY DEAR BRO. ALDEN:
I thank you for your kind invitation to the enjoy- ment of the jubilee of St. Paul's Sunday school to-day. Imperative duties will prevent my presence this after- noon, and I fear will prevent the presence of a repre- sentative from the afternoon school of the Memorial Church, which meets also at 3 o'clock, the time fixed for your afternoon meeting. I beg to assure you, how- ever, that in the manifest blessing of God upon your work as superintendent and those associated with you I heartily rejoice, as I do in all the good that marks the fifty years of St. Paul's history. St. Paul's, as you know, was my first love, and for almost twenty-four years it was my joy to work and pray among a people who were always forbearing and kind and devoted to the then young pastor. I hope to be with you to-night, as also to-morrow night.
Trusting that the future of the work of St. Paul's may be even more fruitful than the past, and rejoicing in the on going of the Kingdom of our blessed Lord in all its departments and divisions, praying that the whole church of Christ may now see eye to eye and stand shoulder to shoulder for Christ, I am, in the best of bonds,
Your brother,
J. G. BUTLER.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April, 1893.
MR. L. D. ALDEN,
Supt. St. Paul's Lutheran Sunday School.
MY DEAR SIR AND BROTHER: As a former pupil in St. Paul's school, where I spent the earliest years of my childhood, I wish to express to you my congratulations upon her arrival at the fiftieth milestone under sich favorable auspices.
I rejoice in your prosperity; that you have been so highly blessed, and that you are doing such good work. With the growing years may you continue to grow in grace, and increase in zeal and devotion to the Master, "forgetting," as the great apostle expresses it, "those things that are behind "-the victories and also the failures to realize your Christian ideal-as you "press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Regretting that I can not be with you this afternoon, I remain,
Yours very truly and fraternally,
C. H. BUTLER.
WASHINGTON, April 15, 1893.
BRO. ALDEN.
DEAR SIR: Your kind invitation to attend the cele- bration of the 50th anniversary of St. Paul's Sunday school, is received, and while I thank you, I am grieved to have to say that in consequence of ill health I will be unable to participate.
When I came to Washington city, in 1857, I immedi- ately connected myself with St. Paul's, and in the capacity of Sunday-school superintendent and church chorister, spent three or four years that bring to me ever pleasant memories, and it would give me great satisfac- tion to be present with you, and to personally wish you and your school and church God speed in your noble christian work.
Fraternally yours,
GEO. E. W. SHARRETTS.
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WASHINGTON, D. C. April 15, 1893.
L. D. ALDEN, EsQ.,
Superintendent St. Paul's
Lutheran Sunday School, Washington, D. C.
DEAR SIR: I have your invitation to be present at the semi-centennial reunion of your school. I regret that absence from the city on Sunday will prevent the ac- ceptance of your courteous invitation and my sharing the pleasure of the happy occasion.
Upon making Washington my home, in 1866, I joined St. Paul's school and continued with it until the organi- zation of the Sabbath school out of which has come the Church of the Reformation. I have always been inter- ested in St. Paul's school. It has had a remarkably vigorous life for a quarter of a century, and its present strong vitality, in view of the change of homes from the vicinity of the church, which has been going on so rapidly, furnishes a subject for reflection. This con- tinued prosperity of the school does not come fortlı from the dust; it is the result of prayer, and unremitted in- telligent effort on the part of officers, teachers, and members of St. Paul's school. God's blessing has been and is now upon the work.
As an humble worker in this great field of christian effort, for myself, and as representing the Sabbath school of the Church of the Reformation, I give you and your school cordial greeting, rejoicing in the thought that there are in St. Paul's Sabbath school, able, con- secrated, and zealous inen and women to carry to the hearts and lives of the young the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Yours truly,
I. C. SLATER.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15, 1893.
MY DEAR MR. ALDEN :
I am exceedingly sorry that I will not be able
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to attend the anniversary exercises of your Sabbath school to-morrow afternoon. Had your invitation reached me an hour sooner I could have accepted, but I had just promised the superintendent of the Reform School to go out there to-morrow at 3 o'clock and speak to the boys.
Trusting you may have a delightful time, and with congratulations for the great success that now crowns your efforts, and with sincerest good wishes for the future,
I am yours, very truly,
JOHN B. WIGHT.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16, 1893.
MY DEAR MR. ALDEN :
I am completely exhausted from my work of last night and this morning. In justice to myself I must rest.
Your own people will more than fill the time on an occasion which will be so full of interest to them. Fifty years! It is a long span, measured as we think of time, but so short after all. It would be a benediction to hear the words of a man who for all these years has served the Master, and can stand up to-day and tell how through them all he has been led. What an example such a life is to the young. I hope for mne you will wish him more years of service, more blessings to follow, and more souls for his crown. The work of your school is a glory, and I trust you may live long to see it pros- per, and that into its gates shall come feet which may all press the portals of another gateway opening into the city celestial. I like to know of the success of your band of workers, and you deserve all the good Lord sends you. May He send you more and more, and God bless you all.
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