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Sometime in the 1930s, a time warp snuck up on a wandering trove of gamblers, thieves and misfits, swiped them up off the streets of New Orleans and dropped them, with their whiskey flasks and stolen wardrobe, into 21st century Los Angeles...

Continuation of the church affairs of the Germans in America. -Difficulties of the preaching office. -Salaries of the preachers. -Education of the same. -Lack of educational institutions for preachers and schoolteachers. -Of the ease of getting into the preaching office. -Preachers and schoolteachers are not formally inducted. -Preacher synods. - These are prohibited by the congregatlons. - The Germans in cities display now still more religious enthusiasm than those in the country.