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Letters to Barbara MaxwellEntry/Object ID
2021.2.580Scope and Content
A letter consisting of two pages of on all sides from Marilyn Maxwell, St. Joseph, Mo. to Miss Barbara Ann Maxwell, Columbia, Missouri, dated January 5th Monday and postmarked January 6 1953 with a 3¢ stamp. Below the return address is written "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"Context
Will you look in Time & tell me where to write about Life en español?
Querida,
S'pose you are at the ball game now; I am listening to Gordon. I wrote the nte in Mama's letter just after I got home from school, so it prob'ly didn't make sense. Of course I didn't have time to write about John's "meditation" then, so I will now.
Larrie sang "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"," and John used it as a basis for his talk. "It was a Negro spiritual which we have heard many times before, and which we want to hear again and again. Perhaps because of its rhythm, or the melody, or the feeling behind it . . . or is it because the song expresses a startling truth: 'Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, Glory Hallelujah!' Peter says that we should not be discouraged by our trials, but joy in them, for we 'are called to share Christ's suffering? How often are w brought up short by such a truth!" He went on tosay that never does Christianity offer insurance against trouble, but always it does offer a way to overcome trouble. John Milton used his blindness to see with his soul and produce great works. So it has been with many who have found the "truth that sets men free." Thus his communion thought was that we should overcome the cross, by faith.
The choir was fairly large, but more altos than sopranos, so I sang soprano, as I knew that part of the anthem better. 😉
Last night I read quite a bit of 'You, the Jury'. It is good but very British, I think. Guess I've read too many unsophisticated American books. (Altho' Exploration of Space is British, but being techinical was different.)
I also worked on A.A.U.N. stuff yesterday - what a job. I had done nothing all December, so had lots of recording to do. I worked on it 2 hours, tho', and got a lot done.
Bob Hackman was sporting another new shirt his mother made him, this one green, grey, black, & white.
We had a long Colleen meeting today, so I was late getting home. Roberta Riemer brought me; she was a late stayer too.
Mother read in the paper that Glenn Wynne has been discharged, but it said nothing of his being home. He plans to stay in Calif. according to the news item. Surely he would have called me if he was home; he always did.
Best I stop. We're all fine, but lonely.
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