Name/Title
AU Lambert, Bertha Elizabeth - 1897-07-07 letter to Joseph Hastings HarrisEntry/Object ID
1990.1.323Context
[Williams Bay, WI, to Mr. J. H. Harris, Box 219, Athens, Ohio.]
Lake Geneva Wis.
July 7, '97.
Mr. J. H. Harris,
My Darling Joe: — Your dear letter came this afternoon and it made me really happy. I had been so anxious to hear from you. I am sitting in the reception hall where I can look out on the lake, it is so calm and beautiful this evening. What can I say?, there is so much to say in a short time as I want to send you letter by the morning mail. If you were only here I think this would be a real earthly paradise. We live in tents which are furnished very simply but comfortably. Our rooms are very small but we need not stay in them except at night. We have the very best of board and plenty of it, I am getting fat already.
Our tent has the use of a boat for a small sum and I try to spend some time on the lake every day. I can row, just try me. One of the girls offered me the use of her bathing suit and what do you think? I was in the water today up to my chin. I stayed in only six or eight minutes as it was the first time. It was very refreshing indeed and I hope to benefit by it every day. Yesterday we had an excursion around the lake. It is about twenty-five miles around, and beautiful summer residences are located all around it about a half a mile apart. So much for pleasure seekers, but there is another part of this paradise in which I find much more real joy than the above.
In the morning at 8:15 we have a devotional meeting, at 9:00 the college conference, at 10:00 Personal worker's class and at 11:00 Missionary Conference. I never realized what students at these schools could obtain. In the evening we have an address by some leader in Christian work, last night by Dr. McClure. I think last Sun. was the most blessed day I ever spent. In the evening Mr. Newell, instructor in Bible, gave a talk on the Holy Spirit. It surely brought me into closer communion with God than I had ever been. I have felt Him so near and felt perfectly at ease concerning the future whatever it may be. Tomorrow I have a date to talk privately with a returned missionary from Japan. I am beginning to see what the true & real study of the Bible means to a Christian life. Now I can not write much more as it is just dark and I do not use my eyes by lamp light. My eyes seem real well but this very warm weather hurts them a little. Please do not scold, but in talking with the dining room manager today I could not help asking if he had his engagements for the summer. Now I want to know what you think of me accepting a position here should I get one. I have taken special notice and do not think the work would be very hard and I could resign at any time. Please say just what you think. I am feeling just excellent. I will leave here Tues. and think you can have time to write.
Your loved one
Bertha Lambert
