{Lutheran Theological Seminary and Waterloo College
Waterloo, Ontario}
March 4, 1922.
Dear Mother:-
As I am going to be away to-morrow night preaching in Elmira I thought I would write you a short letter to-night, although to tell the truth I haven’t much to write about. The past week has gone very rapidly by and we have gone through the usual routine of work, Bonnie with her housework, which is ever with her, and I with my Seminary and College work. The children also have been regularly in school and are all getting along nicely. And the good Lord has given us all a reasonable portion of health and strength to enjoy; so that we have much to be thankful for. To-morrow is Eileen’s birth-day. She will be three years old and is by far the fattest and plumpest child we have – the very picture of ruddy health. She is also as pretty as she can be and of a bright sun-shiny disposition. She is a general favorite with all who know her. She is still a great girl to look after her father. One day I somewhat absent mindedly started to go over to the Seminary without my coat on. She noticed it and promptly reminded me of my lack of attire. She frequently reminds me not to forget my rubbers and sometimes advises me to put on my hat before going to the Seminary. She is a very sweet little girl. Marion is better this winter than she has been any winter for some time and we hope she will escape her annual pneumonia attack. I still give her medicine regularly for her cough, but I think she is a little fleshier than she usually is. Arthur has finished reading his N.T. through the second time this year and has made a good start in reading it the third time. He remembers well what he reads too and can quote and apply the Scripture for almost any occasion.
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He is picking up remarkably in arithmetic too and lately has been making from 70 to 90 on the examination tests. As he has always been good on everything else he should pass his finals with honours. Herman stands third in his room and Carolus 13th. Carolus has become an enthusiast on photography. He sold his bicycle in order to get supplies for his camera and has several dollars worth of chemicals and photographic materials in his laboratory now. He will no doubt have pictures to send you from time to time between now and next summer. To-day I went down to Kitchener to see about getting a suit made, but they didn’t have in any suitable material in black and I will have to go down again about the middle of next week. I am wearing the last coat and vest and the last pair of trousers I possess and only hope that they will hang out till I can get a new suit made. Last month I saved over $50 out of my salary after paying my monthly bills and think I can afford to pay for a suit now. It was the first month in which I was able to save anything worth while, but I made about 22 or 23 dollars extra that month by preaching. I will get $10 for my services to-morrow night and my expenses will not be over a dollar or so. I hope therefore to be able to save something this month again. My beer turned out splendidly. I had both Dr. Hoffmann and Prof. Henkel in to test it and they pronounced it excellent. It has both the “pep” and the foam to it and is, I think, a great success. We had our Chess club meeting Friday night and I won my first game, which shows that I am learning and have made some improvement in the royal game. Prof. Willison is, I think, the champion player with Prof. Henkel as second. The rest of us are only amateurs. I received a letter from Mrs. Murray one day this week in which she asked advice about publishing a Catechism which Pastor Murray had translated. I advised her to publish it if she could find a publication house that would print it at their own expense and named the most likely publication house for her to try. Otherwise I advised her to hold on to the MS. for the present. There are so many catechisms that no new Catechism however excellent would find a
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very ready sale and the cost of publication would be very high. She still seems quite heart-broken over Pastor Murray’s sudden call, and I sympathize with her very much.
I am looking forward with interest to seeing and hearing Missionary Rev. E. Neudoerffer next Sunday. He is to preach in German in St. John’s Sunday morning the 12th inst. It has been about 22 years since we were in the Seminary together and I have not seen him since. This afternoon was visiting day at the Seminary. Pastor Dr. Maurer and the ladies from First English were the visitors to-day. I was over only for a little while, just long enough to have a cup of coffee and some sandwiches, but they had a very good turn-out. Prof. Willison has an article in this weeks Lutheran on the Canadian point of view for which Dr. Knubel took him to task. I haven’t seen the Article yet as we haven’t got our Lutheran this week but he showed me Dr. Knubel’s letter and also read me his reply. We intend to stand by our guns on the questions with which the U.L.C. through its Ex. Com. finds fault with us. Prof. Willison also had a letter from Rev. P.C. Wike in which the latter expressed great disatisfaction with the way the U.L.C. is run and said he would like to come back to Canada if we had an opening here. He is at present in charge of a very difficult mission in one of the suburbs of Chicago. Well, I have drawn out my letter to its usual length and will now draw it to a close. With lots of love and all good wishes, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed]
Carroll H. Little.
