{THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD OF NOVA SCOTIA.
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.
Bridgewater, N.S.,}
Sept. 2, 1914.
Dear Mother:
Your most welcome and interesting letter was received a few days ago and we all enjoyed it very much. Both Bonnie and Arthur are getting along as fine as possible. Bonnie expects to be up to stay up to-morrow. She never was in such fine shape before. And the dear little baby is too sweet and good for anything. He is growing fast and is very strong and takes a wonderful interest in things. All of us think the world of him. Marion wants to kiss his “dear little mouth” every time she comes near him. She thinks she is quite a girl now. . I take her up stairs and put her to bed with Carolus and she goes to sleep alone. Every evening she comes around and kneels down and says “Father, I want to pray the Lord”, or “I want to lay me down to sleep”, and she requires very little assistance to say the prayer. The dollar you enclosed for Arthur reached us in safety and has been placed to the young man’s credit. In his name I thank you for it. I enclosed some U. S. stamps, I think, in the letter you referred to. I get a stamp every once in a while in letters where a reply is desired, and
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as we can’t use them over here, I thought I might as well send them where they could do service. I am enclosing one in this letter. I will send you a copy of last month’s Nova Scotia Lutheran if I can secure an extra copy. In it you will find an editorial on the war, which will give you my views on the subject. It is a terrible affair. It seems to be Germany against the world. But so far Germany seems to have been able to give a pretty good account of herself. Bro. Maurer’s oldest boy Carl had enlisted, much to Pastor Maurer’s sorrow as his sympathies are the other way. We expect to be at Morrisburg by the second Sunday in October. Pastor McCreery is coming to Dunbar, which is only six miles away, on the same Sunday. So we three will be close neighbours again. Morrisburg is about 1000 miles to the westward from here. It is a town of 3000 or 4000 inhabitants, is right on the St. Lawrence and is a rather pretty place. It is about 90 miles from Montreal. I do not know whether it is nearer Hickory, N.C. than Bridgewater is or not. But it will have this advantage that my letters from Hickory will not go first to Bridgewater, N.C. before they start for Canada, as is
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now almost invariably the case. The winters, I judge, are somewhat colder at Morrisburg, but I don’t think the spring is quite so late or the fall any earlier. I don’t know who will take charge of the Nova Scotia Lutheran when I leave. As soon as I can get the brethren to-gether, I will hand in my various resignations. I imagine Pastor Weaver will get the Editorship, perhaps also the presidency. Mrs. Weaver hasn’t decided definitely about the Home, but the prospects are that she will like it. But whoever does, it is going to be a hard pull with the present war prices prevailing. Flour has dropped a little but is still $7.00 a barrel, sugar is 8₵, rice 7₵, steak 20₵, and other things in proportion. I am shorter of money now than I have been in a long time. We had our first cabbage to-day and first cucumbers only a few days ago. There will be no roasting ears this year. Some of the apples are fit for pies and for stewing now. We are having rain again to-day and the weather continues cool. I would have been glad to see Bro. Crouse. I imagine he has aged considerably, as his health was never too good. If he is still around remember me kindly to him. We all send love With best wishes, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little.
