Name/Title
AU Lambert, Bertha Elizabeth - 1895-11-03 letter to Joseph Hastings HarrisEntry/Object ID
1990.1.266Context
[Westerville, OH, to Mr. J. H. Harris, Ada, Ohio]
Westerville O., Nov. 3, 1895.
Mr. J. H. Harris,
Ada O.
My Darling Joe: — I am so thankful for this privilege of talking with you this evening. All I dislike about it is, that you are so far away. But my imagination is strong enough tonight to bring you almost in speaking distance I surely would enjoy being with you tonight. I sometimes wonder if we do not really communicate in thought although so many miles distant.
The past week has been a pleasant one to me. Elsie & I attended the concert on Wed. night. It was passable, but the music was not the best. You will enjoy Robert Nourse's lecture. I have heard the lecture and also read the book. Hurrah! for the Philos! I presume the victory was due to their president. I surely would not enjoy a “point” to the lectures, at least the kind that are here. I feel perfectly satisfied to enjoy your love even with you absent as you are.
Ira is so much better that he seems almost well. He has got started on one of his talks tonight and I do not know when I will get this letter finished. I can not imagine what we are going to quarrel about. I do not feel like I could quarrel with you tonight if I had the chance. I want you to feel just as free in your decisions as if I had nothing to do with them, and I am willing to abide by the result, for I feel that whatever you decide will be for the best.
I am willing to labor any place, but I do feel my weakness and realize that I need to be more fully consecrated for any work in life, from the home to the mission field. I realize more fully each day what responsibilities rest upon us in the relation which we sustain, but it is a pleasure for me to realize such responsibilities and to know that I am counted worthy to sustain such an honored place. And to realize that you love me above all others, and that the time has come when I can look to you as my dearest and truest friend. While home has always been the dearest place on earth to me, I feel that it would be no sacrifice to give it up for the purpose of forming another with you as its sovereign.
I think your decision in regard to your visit is just right. Christmas will be here before we are aware of it. I never saw time fly faster in my life.
Father went away Fri. and will perhaps be gone several weeks. I fear he can not be at home holidays.
Ira thinks of entering school tomorrow.
I hope you may have a pleasant week, and my prayer is that the Lord may show us just what he would have us do.
Happy dreams to you.
Your Sweetheart
Bertha Lambert
