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Show Record Brings Pride in Home Mannings Say, But Sorrow to Read oi Passing of Friends Heidelberg, April 10, 1952 Dear Morg: I Enclosed is my check for our subscription to the Record. We want to tell you again that we have appreciated receiving it more than we can tell. Elda says it is just like receiving a letter from all of our friends. Its pages bring us pride and happiness in your achievements at home, yet sorrows too, when we read of the passing of dear friends. So please keep it coming. We are again changing our address, so when you send the next send it to Karlsruhe, Schirmer str. 2 bey. Bohringer. Because of the many releases of elders we are running short-handed short-handed and where two months ago we had 12 elders we now have six. We have two new fields, Heidelberg and Baden Baden, a famous health resort city occupied by the French, that have so few members that we cannot leave them alone. I have had to travel to Baden Baden each Sunday for services and to keep good friends coming along. That leaves Elda alone to carry on a little Sunday school here. The other two missionaries are helping the American S. S. of the soldiers. Then too, our several friends in Karlsruhe have no one to bring them along and we have been very concerned about them. Therefore in order to keep all our investigators coming we have decided de-cided to move back to Karlsruhe and look after Baden Baden on Sundays and Mondays and Karlsruhe the rest of the week. We shall leave the work here in the hands of LeeRay McAllister one of ' our B A C boys and John Shorten of Ogden, a son of one of my old students at Weber college. We have made a start here, have baptized two very fine men and in a month will baptize we hope, five more. We have enjoyed being here in this old city. Some of the land marks were built as early as 300 A. D. We live near the old city, who's buildings, a number of which still stand and were built in 1300. In the old cast'e which stands high on the slope- on the south side of the beautiful Neck-ar Neck-ar river, are many reminders of a glorious past. Even in the wine cellars there are enormous vats where wine was ripened for the wine loving nobility. One vat holds 55,000 liters of choice wine, and it is said the little court "fool" drank it all by himself, perhaps that's how he got his name. At the old university which boasts of 4500 students,' there is no campus. Buildings are now pretty much scattered over the city, but the old university is1 only a block from us. It is a re- i minder of what one calls here the good old days, the glorious: past. Where students drank and ' sang, fought their duels or de-1 veloped the art of fencing. Onlyj rarely does one now see the, marks of this noble sport, a deep scar on the cheek. These scars are evidences of great valor and courage. How tame is basketball, I and football. Oh yes there were! naughty college boys then too, I but they were locked up in a prison which has deep dungeon cells, where the bad boys for a period did not see daylight. But those days are no more. The university is very cosmopolitan. cosmopoli-tan. One sees various nationalities nationali-ties even English speaking Negroes. Ne-groes. I do not know if they came from U. S. or British South Africa. A number of Americans are here studying, both of the Army and civilians. Well Morg, our time is fast running out. We have little over six months left and there is so much to do. Our warmest greetings greet-ings to old friends. Sincerely, Elda and Will. |