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Wednesday, January
18, 1939
[Cincinnati]
Dear Dr.
Higginbottom,
It was a joyful
treat to hear you this evening and to hear you speak of Daddy. When you and
Mrs. Higginbottom come back on furlough each five years you both look younger
and happier each time. And—from what you say, India’s climate is not
particularly comfortable.
This note is to warn
you that there will be a group of “Us young heathens” at Mother’s on Saturday.
Many of my young married friends for one reason or another try to, and do, live
good Christian lives—but find very little time to go to church and renew their
faith.
So, in your own
wonderful way, won’t you please re-interpret the actual value of Christ’s
commands for us? Your simple vivid teaching tonight, using some of our American
slang, brought home again to me the same sturdy faith in the Bible that was my
father’s. Thank you! Then, too, it is good for us to be reminded that in the
Foreign field all Christian faiths and denominations do work together in fact
as well as in spirit. If you ever do come back to the United States more or
less permanently, I hope you’ll help us untangle such problems as flood control
and soil erosion. I’m sure you could.
Please use the
enclosed for whatever you think best, be it more grapefruit trees, or a
multiple pen for saving your time in signing the very fine letters you send
home—some 3000, Mrs. Higginbottom says! Of course this comes in remembrance of
Allen Collier, and of Charlie Vail too, both of whom worked at the same task as
yours but in other fields. If possible to do so, I’ll try to send the same
amount to you quarterly.
Cordially yours,
Caroline Collier
Russel
P.S. Albert had to
spend tonight at work with a client; he is looking forward to seeing you on
Saturday. C.C.R.
2 comments:
Thank you for sharing this letter written by my grandmother!
My pleasure! I'll let you know if I find any others.
--Anne
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