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AU Harris, Joseph Hastings - 1892-12-03 letter to Bertha Elizabeth LambertEntry/Object ID
1990.1.1Scope and Content
Letter from Joseph Hastings Harris (Ada, Ohio) to Bertha Elizabeth Lambert (Plantsville, Ohio), 3 December 1892Context
Box 678, Ada, Ohio.
Dec. 3, 1892.
Miss Lambert,
Plantsville, O.
Kind Friend:
This, the close of another wk., finds me among the living and a recipient of the mercies extended to mankind by Omnipotence.
Seven wks. of school gone. Several yrs. of life gone, and still the wheel of time rolls on revolving again and again, smiling at our efforts to grasp from it the little morsels of education, so small that after we have obtained them they seem to sink into insignificance.
But such is life and I am truly glad that all these things are just as they are. I hear the cry of the midnight train, but the steam thus used has passed into other elements: but with life we are living to answer the question “If a man die shall he live again?”
Life truly is sweet to him who with purpose bold and true sinks his sword in life's swift flight and rescues from the doom of night gems to brighten the future.
School is moving along with good interest, a large attendance and everything conducive to a good term of school. I found many of the old students here, yet most of the faces were strange to me, especially did I notice the great change in the Lit. society, but the societies and associations are doing good work and have taken in more members than usual.
Miss Wort seems to enjoy life fully as well as usual. J. A. Smith is at work with zeal and energy as he always is. He is attending a convention of the Y.M.C.A. at Defiance. Miss Meyers gave us a complete report of the Y.M.C.A. Con.
Seth is enjoying school very much and is making great calculations on next term, but thinks he will have to spend Christmas at home.
He is doing well and is well contented and makes good use of the Philo. lib.
My studies this term are Algebra, Geometry, Latin and Par. Law. and am trying to do some literary work. All the officers are ladies.
O'yes I am chief usher and program distributor: listen will you. Just come up and I will give you the finest seat in the hall and would send you a program now if I only had one here.
The bible class is quite interesting now.
Philo reunion next Wed. evening.
The Democrats are having a rally tonight.
This of course will cause Prof. Lehr to lose a little sleep. Well it is just 12 O'clock not One and I must go, not home but, to sleep. I have not heard from Ira but suppose he is well. I suppose you are enjoying your school work again now, and feel that your whole time and interest is absorbed in the great work before you. A grand work it is too. I should like very much to spend the holidays on the ridge but guess books will keep me here. If this note finds its way to the waste basket without being considered, please pardon the unworthy writer for the intrusion.
If acceptable the writer awaits an answer as friend to friend. At any rate wishing the best of success as yours I remain a true friend, J. H. Harris
