Evangelial Lutheran Synod of Canada REV. J. REBLE. PRESIDENT 104 HUGHSON ST. HAMILTON, ONT, REV. J MAURER. D. D. VICE-PRESIDENT 49 IRVIN ST, KITCHENER. ONT. REV. H. SCHORTEN, GERMAN SECRETARY 170 ALBERT STREET. WATERLOO. ONT. REV. A. A. ZINCK, D. D., ENGLISH SECRETARY WATERLOO, ONT. REV. E. HOLM, TREASURER ST. JACOBS, ONT Waterloo, Ont., Sept. 13, 1925. Der Mother; Your most welcome letter Was received on my return from conference Friday evening and was greatly enjoyed. I will try to write you a few lines this evening. I had a fine trip up to Ladysmith in the province of Quebec. Ladysmith is a little hamlet in the Laurentian mountains some 60 miles north west -of Ottawa and 14 miles off the railroad .It lies in a picturesque country, wierd and wild.The country looks very much like Nova Scotia with its evergreen trees, the murmuring pines and hemlocks,and with its rocks and hi lie and lakes. I left here on Monday morning and arrived in Ottawa at 4:20 in t he afternoon. Pastor McCreery met me at the station in Ottawa and took me with him to his rooming - house. I stayed with him till noon the next day.. He drove me around in his car to all the principal sights of the city and also over to Hull on the Quebec side of the river where they sell good beer. We arrived at our destination Tues. evening in time for supper and were comfortably housed in the hotel of the village - and well-fed at the parsonage. The conference was opened - in the beautiful little stone church on the hill. The sermon was preached in German bhy the convener Pastor Voss, after which the holy Communion was administered. The business meetings of the conference were all held in the--parsonage. This had the advantage that it enabled us to smoke during the sessions, thus enabling us to kill rtwo birds with one stone. The conference is bilingual, but the language mostly employed was German. This gave me some good practice inGerman speaking. Iwas able to follow the discussions fairly well.All the English brethren could understand some German but McCreery and he is learning.Toward the last he could catch a word every now and then,The Rev. Kleine,, pastor loci,ie qUite a gourmand, and set one of the finest tables you ever saw. He fed all the ten ministers for two days and gave us chicken, roast beef, wieners, vegetables of all kinds honey, cakes etc. galore. I haven't weighed since I came back , bit I am sure I ate enough to gain at least 2pounds. We returned to Ottawa on Thursday p.m., and I left Friday morning for home, reaching here at 8 p.m. after a run of about 400 miles. The College School opened Wednesday with 36 students.The College of Arts will open next week. They expect to have about 40 students in that department. In that case we will have about 90 students, counting Seminary and all.This will make a good showing.. Todaym we had the Willisons Prof..R. Hirtle, and Mr. Nickel over for tea. Bonnie put them up a wonderfully fine dinner, which I think they all enjoyed. The Willisons are leaving on Wed. for Kingston, where he will take a course in Queen's University. He his taking his family with him.. They gave a sort of farewell party to the members of the faculty atbtheir home last night. Prof. Roy Hirtle is taking Dr. Willison8s house for this winter and will live in it with his mother who came backwith him from Nova Scotia.. We are having wet weather now for a change. It has rained every day now for a week.Today has been particularly wet. FriAay night Carolus and Herman donned their new suits and went down town to a band concertand were caught in a shower and wetbto the hide. Their suits were quite bedroggled