New Germany, N.S.
Nov. 2, 1906.
Dear Doctor Weidner:
Many thanks for your expression of interest and kind letter of inquiry. The work in my parish is progressing slowly but, I trust, surely. I am very busy just now with my catechetical instruction and church building. I expect to have my little church at Newburn finished and ready for consecration around the holidays. The one here at New Germany I hope to push through during the winter and coming spring. We have had an unusually fine fall and the weather is still mild and pleasant. I have thought a good deal of taking up work in you correspondence school and would like
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to do so. But there are several things in the way at present. My work is so scattered that I am compelled to be on the road a great part of the time and when I return from a long trip I am often too tired physically to concentrate my mind on home work. I have, however, been putting in all the spare time I could in study lately and have carefully read through the Book of Concord, Dr. Jacobs’s Summary, Conybeare & Howson’s Life of St. Paul and have finished the first volume of Godet’s Commentary on St. John. But another obstacle is the financial straits I am in. My Church building projects keep me constantly drained. Out of a salary of $500 which fell about $10 last year. I paid out over $115 since June on building acc’t, besides charitable missionary & benevolent contributions, and I really don’t have the money with which to buy books. I don’t mention this by way of complaint but by way of explanation. If I should be
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able at any time soon to take up anything, what would you suggest? My favorite study in the Seminary was Dogmatics. But I feel the need of brushing up on Church History. Again thanking you for the interest you have shown in me and promising to give due consideration to any suggestions you may make, I remain, with best wishes for your health and continued usefulness to our dear old Church.
Sincerely yours,
[signed] C.H. Little
