{Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Canada
Rev. J. Reble, President
104 Hughson St. Hamilton, Ont.
Rev. J. Maurer, D. D., Vice-President
49 Irvine St. Kitchener
Rev. H. Schorten, German Secretary
170 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ont.
Rev. A. A. Zinck, D. D., English Secretary
Waterloo, Ont.
Rev. E. Holm, Treasurer
Conestogo, Ont.}
Waterloo, Ont.,
Nov. 20, 1927
Dear Mother:
Your most welcome and highly interesting letter of the 10th inst was received in due time and was read with pleasure. As I am going to Hespeler again to-night, I thought I had better write to you this afternoon than wait till I get back to-night. This will be my last service at Hespeler, as their new pastor is coming next Sunday. I will thereafter have no regular place to go, but am booked for Sherwood-Unionville on the coming Sunday. I am sending you with this mail a copy of the College Cord put out this last week. The article on the Reformation signed “L” I wrote. I wrote it in such a hurry and gave so little thought to it that I didn’t feel like signing my full name; but the Editor thought it was O.K. and I let him publish it. The MacLean’s, which I sent to Pearl last week, was in a rather battered condition. This was due to Florence who has a perfect mania for pulling things down off the table and making sausage or mince meat out of them. Her [?] of destructiveness is large at this stage of the game. But she is lively and hearty and good natured, and
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is putting on fat with remarkable rapidity now that she is weaned. She is very fond of beer and drinks it like a toper. Bonnie thinks she is getting prettier and more like Catharine every day. Allow me to express to you my hearty congratulations and to extend to you the good wishes of us all on your 79th birthday to-morrow. We are all sorry that we could not accept your kind invitation to your birthday dinner to-day, which will no doubt be a great success. I am so glad that at your advanced age you are still in good health physically and mentally and are capable of enjoying life to the full. This is a great blessing from God for which you and all of us cannot be too thankful. May the Lord preserve you and keep you to us in the same way for years to come. This week’s Progress Enterprise of Lunenburg, N.S. brought news of the death of William Silver of Hemford, whom I knew very well though he belong to the Congregationalist Church there. He was 98 years of age and left 15 surviving children and 2 predeceased, making 17 in all. Some called him the Father of his Country, though not quite accurately as there were others down there with families quite as large. Well, winter has set in at last. The past week was quite steady and the little snow that fell last Saturday or Sunday is still with us. I thought it was time for me to put off my BVD’s and put on my combinations this morning, I also bought a new overcoat last week and am now fitted out for whatever the winter chooses to bring.
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Our Board of Governors held its meeting last week. They bought the Weber property and also authorized their Executive to correspond with and call the Rev. P. H. Roth to the vacant professorship in the Seminary – all of which is very pleasing to us. They succeeded in inducing the Rev. Prof. Dr. Willison to withdraw his resignation. So he will also continue with us, and “All’s well that ends well.” I don’t think we will be able to get Prof. Roth until next September, but we can on a pinch carry on till then. The Canada Synod is taking up the canvas for Ministerial Pensions and Relief and is holding a big mass-meeting in Kitchener Wednesday to launch it forth. President Reble had his address to the congregations in German and had me as the English Sec’y to translate it. This I did in a few minutes. It pleased him so well that he wrote me that people who read the published letter will say. My! how Reble has improved in his English! Well, I must close. With love and all good wishes, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little.
