Name/Title
AU Harris, Joseph Hastings - 1894-10-15 letter to Bertha Elizabeth LambertEntry/Object ID
1990.1.5Scope and Content
Letter from Joseph Hastings Harris (Belpre, Ohio) to Bertha Elizabeth Lambert (Plantsville, Ohio), 15 October 1894Context
Box 62, Belpre. Wash. Co. O
Oct.15, 1894.
Miss Lambert,
Plantsville, O.
Dear Bertha;
Once more settled in a new home I feel grateful for this opportunity of spending a few moments with you in thought.
We had arranged to come here last wk., but had work in Athens which detained us until Sat. when I decided to spend Sunday at Hamden. I just got there in time for the evening session and heard J. W. Willis preach. Sunday was a busy day Bishop Kephart preaching in the morning and the afternoon at the same time dedicating the new church at that place.
The evening session was devoted to ordination of ministers and S.S. work.
Altogether it was a grand treat to me even for so short time. I came back to Athens 10:45 last night and came here this morning. Of course Willard's will have told you the results of the Conference before this reaches you. Plymouth retains her minister with Bro. Deaver as Elder. Willis travels a District. Your father goes to Deavertown.
He said he was going back home this morning but expected to visit Mt. Hermon in the near future.
I think we have a pleasant place here to stay as we are boarding in a private family where there are three talkative young ladies, but as Wats, C. A. & C. W. Harris will be here I shall have to stand back and listen.
They have M.E. & Congregational churches here, but as the U.B. have a good church at Parkersburg I may cross the river, as I admire more and more the U.B. Church.
I presume Ada is alive this evening with howling solicitors.
I feel anxious to know if Leonard & Seth started today.
One more wk. of our lives gone finds me still the recipient of God's tender care and protection. Still kept and I trust guided by the Holy Spirit. I believe that from the depths of your soul you say the same in regard to your own life, only that your experience and life seem so very much richer than my own.
'Tis a beautiful thought to realize that though absent in body this power or influence seems to flow from life to life from experience to experience until the character is beautified, the soul ennobled and drawn nearer to God. Shall we not in our evening prayer ask the Dear Master to help us that wherever or however we may be situated whether far distant or near our lives may be an inspiration to others be the life humble of otherwise.
I close trusting to hear from you at your earliest convenience.
Your friend,
J. H. Harris
