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What Is the Purity of What You Are Doing?
Werner schmitka was taken to chile as a two year old along with his mother and nine brothers and sisters. His parents were convinced to sell the family home and follow shafer to south America by his powerful preaching, promise of a more godly life. Schmitka's father stayed in germany to look after the sect's business interests and joined them eight years later. On board the ship, the children were separated from their mother, whom schmitka remembers as a good hearted woman,. In their new home, schmitka lived in the timber kinder house, or children's house, where shafer had his private apartment. It was there that he