{The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Nova Scotia
Office of the President.}
Bridgewater, N.S.,
July 2, 1913.
Dear Mother:
This afternoon I will try to write you a few lines again. It is very warm to-day, in fact it is sultry and hot, the first real hot day we have had this summer. It came on also without any warning, yesterday being cool as a cucumber. I have been busy all day with my new duties as Editor of the Nova Scotia Lutheran. I did not want the job again, but was the unanimous choice of the Synod and couldn’t well decline. I was afraid too that if I absolutely refused to take it they might elect Pastor Weaver, who is not a safe man to edit Synod’s paper, and who might change its conservative policy to the discredit of our orthodoxy in practice if not in faith. So I have taken it up again and will so the best I can with it with the limited time I have to bestow upon it. Last Sunday I preached in the Rose Bay parish in all – of the three congregations of the parish. I drove down to Rose Bay after supper on Saturday evening and drove home again on Sunday night. I had good congregations and got along very well with my sermons. I have arranged this Sunday the exchange with
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Pastor Buchholtz, I will accordingly preach here at Bridgewater and at St. Luke’s, while he will go down the river. I have two sermons to get out yet this week and haven’t done a thing on them yet. We have company at present. Mr. and Mrs. Gunn and son came Saturday evening and while Tom had to go away again Monday morning, Mrs. Gunn and Donald are still here. Mrs. Gunn will play a solo in the Church here on Sunday evening. Donald is not nearly as large as Herman and doesn’t talk half as much or half as well. He is such a baby to what Herman is. He won’t let his mother get out of his sight for a minute. I never saw a woman so tied down to a child as she is. Marion doesn’t give the two of us one quarter of the trouble. I weighed Herman the other day. With is coat on which would probably weigh a pound or two he weighed 46 lbs. He is not overly fat but is chunky and solid. He is also an awfully handsome boy. On Monday I drove over to Mahone Bay and brought over Mr. Seward Hirtle, our beneficiary student who has been attending Roanoke College. He is also still here. I succeeded in getting $150 from Synod for him this next year. Last year they discriminated against him because he wouldn’t go to Thiel.
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I received a letter from Bikleˊ recently. He told us about being present at the shooting affray in the court house in Washington, an account of which we had previously read in the daily papers. I did not think of his being present when I read it. I suppose it was rather an exciting time. We have no pastor as yet for the Rose Bay parish. I haven’t heard from Bro. Wike. I received word, however, of a young man at Wyndmoor near Philaˊ who is willing to come up and preach through the month of September provided they will give him his board and $75. I don’t know whether the parish would do this or not but I will put the matter before them if Pastor Wike declines or does not answer soon. The young man in question is highly recommended and I believe would be all right if he liked the place and people and they liked him. In about a week we will begin haying again. The grain looks well and I think we will have a good crop. I don’t think of any more news and my pen is bad, so I will close. With much love and all good wishes,
I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little
