{THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD OF NOVA SCOTIA.
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.}
Bridgewater, N.S.,
Sept. 27, 1913
Dear Mother:
Please pardon me for being so late this week but as I was on my way home all week I did not have an opportunity for writing. I reached Bridgewater last night after 10 o’clock and it was nearly eleven before I got back home, as I had to walk up. I found the family all well and very glad to see me return. The Orphans’ Home children were also all right and had been on their good behaviour during my absence, so that everything went along swimmingly while I was gone. I had a great trip and was away altogether 20 days, but I was glad to get back home too and be with my dear ones again. I stopped off at a number of places on the return trip. First I stopped off over night and for half a day with Pastor Behrens and family at Berlin. They seemed especially glad to have a Nova Scotian with them again. Berlin is, I think, the most beautiful city I ever saw. It is a small city of about 17 or 18 thousand inhabitants, but is beautifully laid out and paved and has the finest lawns and shade trees you ever saw. The houses also are all brick or stone and everything is kept so nice and clean. I visited our Theological Seminary at Waterloo which is a suburb
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of Berlin, although enjoying a separate corporation. I arrived at Toronto on Friday evening and immediately set out for Unionville where I again visited Pastor Mauner and spent till Saturday afternoon with him. Then I returned to Toronto and was there over Sunday preaching for our St. Paul’s congregation both morning and evening. In the morning the congregation was small on account of rain but I had a fine turn out in the evening. At both services I preached at my best and received many compliments. They have a robed choir there and are in everything very churchly. I liked the people very much. They are now without a pastor and I think it is likely that I will receive a call from there sometime this fall. In case I do it is most likely that I will accept. Toronto is the finest city in Canada and has a population of 420,000. The congregation at present pays a salary of $1200, though out of that the pastor will have to pay a rent of $23 or $25 a month. But they promise to do better than that when they get in good working shape. At Toronto Monday morning I took the steamer to Niagara Falls from which place I sent you post cards. I got back in Toronto about 10 o’clock Monday night and left Tuesday morning for Morrisburg, where I arrived at 3:30 in the afternoon after an interesting ride by rail down the St
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Lawrence, on of the finest rivers in the world. I found both Pastor and Mrs. McCreery waiting for me at the station and I spent a night and day most pleasantly with them. Then I took a long trip from Morrisburg, Ont. to St John, N.B. arriving there about 7 o’clock Thursday evening. Meda was very glad to see me and took me out that night to a musicale given by their Arts Club. Yesterday morning Mr. Worder, Meda’s brother-in-law who runs a big living stable in St. John, drove me all over the city. I stayed there till after dinner and then took the boat for Digby, N.S. and from thence reached home last night. It was the longest time I have been away from home since I have been married, and in spite of my interesting experiences, the time seemed long and I was glad to get back. I saw Dr. Greever at the Council also Mrs. Crank from the South, though I didn’t meet her, Dr. Schumauk, the President of the Council, is a wonderful man and one of the most powerful personalities that I ever met. The proceedings were interesting throughout. They furnished meals in the basement of the Church every noon and fed well, even furnishing free cigars. But I must close. I intended sending cards to all but missed Bikleˊ Jennie Lee and Herbert. With love and all good wishes,
I am Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little
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P.S I forgot to say that Buchhaltz’s have another girl, born Wednesday last
