Re: Harmony from the Outset

Bruderhof wrote:

> Megan R. wrote:
> 
>> Bruderhof wrote:
>> 
>>> On Palm Sunday, March 24, Bernhard Kühn began a series of meetings.
>>> Emmy did not miss either the afternoon or the evening sessions.
>>> Eberhard was also there that first evening. They exchanged only a
>>> few words. Then, on Monday evening, they spoke again. On Tuesday he
>>> accompanied her home. Love was yet to be mentioned. Instead, the two
>>> discussed what had been said at the meetings. They talked of their
>>> earlier years, of what they hoped for in a life with Jesus, and of
>>> the future. They understood one another immediately – there was no
>>> difference in their views. 
>>> 
>> 
>> On Wednesday evening Eberhard escorted Emmy to the meeting, where, to
>> his joy, she publicly declared that in the past few days she had
>> decided for a life with Jesus. On the way home he expressed his
>> certainty that God had led them together and told Emmy that he wanted
>> to visit her parents on Good Friday.
>> 
> 
> At that time the von Hollanders lived in a newly built town house,
> Dessauer Strasse 8A, on the eastern edge of Halle, only a few steps
> away from the water tower – an imposing structure even today. The
> family was not exactly prosperous or, better said, they were no longer
> prosperous. Emmy’s father, Johann Heinrich von Hollander, was the son
> of the last German Mayor of Riga, a major city in northern East
> Prussia. Her mother, Monika, was the daughter of Piers Otto, who had
> been pastor of the German Lutheran Church of St. Gertrude’s in Riga.
> The von Hollander-Otto family tree had roots extending all the way
> back into the 1700s and was replete with councilors, patricians, and
> knights of the German Order. However, all this would only have had
> significance until the first Russian Revolution, 1904–1905, at the 
> very latest. 
> 

Emmy’s father, a lawyer, had moved his family to Germany in 1890 to avoid 
the russification policy of Tsar Alexander III and to provide a German 
education for his children. Repeating his bar examinations had cost 
Johann Heinrich von Hollander the greater part of the family’s resources. 
He had hoped to qualify as a university lecturer in Jena but could not 
make any headway in his profession there. A suitable opening did not 
appear until 1896 at the university in Halle. The family’s first home in 
Halle was in Giebichenstein; later, they moved to the suburb of 
Ammendorf. When Eberhard met Emmy, the von Hollanders lived on Dessauer 
Strasse. There were seven in the family; the two youngest of Emmy’s six 
siblings had died early. Still living with their parents were her older 
sister, Olga; Else, who was only eleven months younger than Emmy; her 
brother, Heinrich (“Heinz”); and the youngest, Monika (“Mimi”).