since his return, but has no appointment for to-morrow. I hope that he will soon get a call from some parish and be ordained. Otherwise he will undoubtedly be conscripted as soon as conscription is imposed in Canada. His German, I fear, will not be of much service to him as far as preaching goes, as the churches are cutting out the German very rapidly now. St. John's will hold its last German service to-morrow morning, and all the other churches in the Twin-City have already cut out theirs, deeming prudence the best policy under the present situation. It may be, however, that German services will be continued in the west, where the German is far more necessary, and he may get a call from there, although I haven't heard from Rev, Weidenhammer as yet. Seminary will open a week from Monday and the College on the following day, but I doubt whether we will get enough students to remedy the financial situation materially, and I am looking for still harder times ahead, though I hope and pray that I may be disappointed. I wrote quite a few articles for our church paper during the vacation that is now nearly over, and a couple of them are still to come out yet. Bonnie received Mabel's nice letter early in the week and intends to reply as soon as her hands are free enough from housework and canning and innumerable other things to hold a pen in her hand. We send you all our greetings and best wishes for health and happiness. I am still taking my daily swim as usual, and at this date have only one competitor, a Scotchman who takes care of the Post Office; and being a Scotchman