{Lutheran Theological Seminary and Waterloo College Waterloo, Ont.,} May 18, 1924.
Dear Mother:-
As Sunday evening has come around again and I have put Eileen and Ruth to bed and Arthur and Robert are taking care of the baby I will seize the opportunity to have another little chat with you. Speaking of the baby reminds me of an interesting piece of information, and that is that since the beginning of last week she has been weaned. She didn’t just appreciate it the first night and cried a little and tossed herself around a bit, probably because she was still in bed with her mother; but since then she has gone to bed in her crib and slept all night without waking up the same as the other children. She is a very intelligent child and apparently realizes that she is too old to nurse anymore and considers herself advanced in importance in having a bed all to herself. I took her up last night and put her to bed awake and she went to sleep in a little or no time. We are in a worse tear-up in the house just now than when house-cleaning operations were on. The Board agreed to give us hardwood floors in the dining-room and study and the carpenters were here last week and laid and polished the floors, and to-morrow morning the paper hanger will be here and put us in another muddle. But the floors, which are of red oak, are beautiful. Only they make the front hall and parlour look shabby. However, we will probably get them done another year. We didn’t want to ask for too much at a time. The floors cost a little over $100 and the papering will probably be $50 or so more. In order to lay the floors the carpenters
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had to take up the radiators and the bushing in one of them broke and they went off without connecting up the system. They left their tools here and we expected them back Friday or Saturday, but they didn’t show up. In consequence we have not been able to have any fire and have been suffering cold comfort for a few days. The weather has been very rainy, very windy and quite cool for the past week and a little fire would have been quite welcome. However, we have survived so far without any injurious effects and this adventure has inured that there has been a saving of coal. This afternoon the Cossman-Hayunga Missionary Society of the Seminary and College celebrated its tenth anniversary with a sermon by the new Litt. D. Prof. N. Willison, who in order, I presume, to show what he could do as a Dr. preached for a full hour. I had to make the prayer, which I abbreviated and made as short as possible. Owing to the showers which were steady all morning and intermittent all afternoon the attendance was not very large. Work has begun on the new residence for the Professors Hirtle which is to be erected on Albert St. in the upper part of our garden. Only the excavation has been made so far, but when the house is done it will serve as quite a wind break for our house. It is to be a two-storey brick house. On account of the cold weather nothing has come up in my garden as yet except the onions, lettuce and radishes, and even these have made little better than snail's progress. We are fast approaching the end of our school year. The College commencement will be held on the 30th of May and the Seminary Graduation on June 6. This week will finish our lectures. The remainder of the time will be occupied with examinations. I was occupied last week in writing an article on Chiliasm which I am thinking of having published in pamphlet form. This summer I am thinking of attempting the production of a book on N.T.Theology. Dr. Weidner’s book is out of print and in some respects is not satisfactory anyway, and so far as I know we have nothing in English that is satisfactory. So if I can find the time
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and opportunity I will see what I can do in the way of meeting the want of a text book along this line. I had an opportunity to go to Nova Scotia and supply the Northfield parish through the summer vacation, but I didn’t want to leave Bonnie with the children and declined in favour of one of our Theological students of the Middle class. As Morrisburg is likely to be filled by a young man from the Buffalo Synod Seminary who graduates this year I will probably be at home all summer. Mrs. Bockelmann is expected to arrive on Thursday of this week at Prof. Zincks where she will spend a month or so. Pastor Bockelmann expects to arrive about the middle of June and will also spend his vacation here. He will be Dr. Bockelmann at that time as he has been granted the title of Dr. of Divinity by the Hanna Divinity of School of Springfield, O. – an honour of which he is worthy. Next Sunday we will have the formal dedication of the New Annex, with Dr. Gottwald of U.L.C.A. Educational Board as chief speaker. If the weather is favourable it will be a big day and there will be a large gathering. After the commencements the Synodical conventions will be next in order. Our Synod will meet in Montreal about the middle of June. I don’t know how I will get there unless the Synod advances me the money as I am on the ragged edge financially, but I suppose there will be some way out of the difficulty. But I must close. With love to all, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
Carroll H. Little.
