Name/Title
AU Lambert, Bertha Elizabeth - 1896-07-26 letter to Joseph Hastings HarrisEntry/Object ID
1990.1.307Context
[Iberia, OH, to Mr. J. H. Harris, Box 219, Athens, Ohio]
Iberia, O., July 26, '96
Mr. J. H. Harris,
Athens, O.
My Darling Jos.: — Lucy has gone to church and the children are all in dreamland so I will occupy a while with you. I went to the U.P. S.S. this morning, to the M.E. for church, and to the Pres. C.E. so I thought I would let Lucy go tonight. I tried a new plan this morning with the Bible study and showed it up in the S.S. I do not know how it will work but I thought I would try it here.
I went to the M.E. church to hear Dr. Lowry, a returned missionary of the M.E. church. He has spent about thirty years in China, and he gave a fine address on their work in that country. I rec'd your letter last evening. I had begun to think I was not going to hear from you this week but the letter came at last and just when I most wanted it. Lucy was sick for two or three days last week and it was so rainy that I did not get to do any thing with the studies. I expect to go to Mt. Gilead Tues. and the last of the week will go to Galion and finish up my work there.
While I had some time I have been doing some reading. I completed “Ben Hur” which I began last summer. I think it is one of the finest works I ever read. I could hardly lay it down till I finished it. I am now reading “The New Acts of the Apostles” and it is even better than “Ben Hur.” I have been enjoying such a fine visit with Lucy. Last Fri. we had planned to go over near Blooming Grove visiting and pick berries while there but Lucy was not able to go and it was too rainy for the rest of us so I did not get to stain my fingers. I must tell you how I have been flying around; last evening I had a buggy-ride (with a little boy and his sister) and last Tues. evening a prospective Pres. minister took me to supper, while at our lawn-fete.
But you need have no fears there are none of them as nice as my Joseph. Croquet seems to be the rage here at present and I am invited to play almost every evening, but I do not accept every invitation.
I too will be glad when school opens again, but vacation is going so fast I fear I can not accomplish all I have planned.
I wish we might enjoy another visit similar to that of one year ago here, but I could not ask it. We can soon be together again and will forget that we have been separated so long. It will surely be a relief to Alice to be freed from her suffering. How thankful we should be for life and health.
I too feel so well satisfied over our decision concerning our life work. My mind is so much freer in that respect than it was last summer.
I will close and write to Ira. I pray that we may be using every opportunity to prepare ourselves for usefulness and that we may be true to Christ wherever we go.
Your own true one,
Bertha Lambert.
