Show August 22 1934 Ave Plava Del Rey Venice P 0 Cal Calif John Stahle Bountiful Utah My Dear Friend I It just reached us It was nas ex- ex ex expected your your printed weekly letter Jetter I Two thousand or more times it h had hadnot hadnot d I not failed There stamped in m print printer's I I ers er's ink mk SP semen sp en whole days of hap happenings bs in and nd about the Old Home HomeY homeYard HomeYard Y Yard rd HomeI As al always als s thereas there was as set et down m in I these thee home the doings biggest things s in the life of man Maybe not ays al John but estI now we I 1 now they are the biggest est I ot of all things in this world set down downto downto downto to m man n The the beginning beginning the end Death Both Death And as we ne draw our minds close tIp up we see each is both a beginning I and an ending Birth the end n of an eternity the behind behind the begin begin- beginning beginning ning of a minute 01 or so 0 of e earth rth set I run ahe ahead d Death the ending of that tiny dot of earth time the time beginning of that eternity of end end- endless endless less time ahead he hedIn end I In real honest and true mc meaning I John we hive have the whole thing wrong end to or wron wrong side up upI I A upA is nil Birth th calls for a christening aim i e re- re c cj ed down with fear and edwith cd ed with gloomy in II In ng Whip Death cries out the charges of an o overwhelming joy I But neither lie ate so bad Perhaps I both ate aie equally good For both I at ate C corner stone la lams mg Ing in the I ard building of th the te he I structure God himself has yet et laud laid out man man manSo So get up John Shed the sack ack sackcloth sackcloth cloth and shake off the ashes Both Bothof Bothof Bothof of us have passed the time timo for being pinched and petty in our minds and just plain saps in our thoughts All the time John you have been right in your setting down of the doings in m and around that little strip between the mountaIns and the lake The events you fe feat feat- featured I feat were the events The events that stood fo to As we know many times many have said aJ and in flippant mood that the chief items in your our more than two thousands times t recording of what had h moved by in the Ee seven semen en days last Jast pa past t were so close liko unto the filled in blank spaces of the family bible In ye old f family bIble times A faithful chronicle of marriages births marriages and deaths But certain it i 1 s John as i t nun rn 1 moves movell and truth gets out of hiding yours wIll be not only the last Jaet to smile but yours ours a smile th that t will for for- forever forever for forever ever list last Each Lach ce semen sc en days these more than two score years cars by have first placed placed ed cd and anel set down the things s whIch marked the reckonings of lift life And then filled the crace a er a le of space wIth the h shavings picked up in home towns town's front frontward yar yard i Today news in m rolls and reels I flood and fill the mental spaces of earth arth set m man n And what him I His Ills earth rth beginning and ind his earth erding are the only oily places I where he punched the clock of tune time I to st stamp mp enduring marks As he heI I pIcks up life there is Ie registered the total t-otal of what heas ho he was nas or is to d date te I And when he passes out he regist- regist registers I ers the tot total l of t h he his has been here nere Andin And in m th Waster aste ledger IS set down the grand total of these two sums And that's that There are only two closings of the book of man Your weekly message in print to us for nigh aI a I half half hundred years has m marked and posted the tho time of both of these The times of these in m lifes that touched or that in m earth sp space ce stood not far from our own I Four times John you have punched your printers clock and marked the diy day one from our own andI I fireside passed onI onI on onI I mention this only that you i knoW that thit what hat I am putting down i iI is not the usual mental merry go- go goi lound go-lound 1 or just one of those would e ha hale e you believe I Some Sonic things are arc wrought right out of the white heat fueled to that whIteness in the furnace furnice of e- e ex experience Now John edging right down on to the granite bed plane pline of fact that and foundations all that th is you haven hiven t lost anything You haven't hament been ted separated from from On the lY there thero has come to you the recording of a life fulfilment that presses down n the abundance nce th that t has come to you oj Ol and nd then the measures of your our soul c cannot cont contain m it all To you his has come a soul coul set m in next and nd nearest to your own A Alife I life holding to and and holding up and andI steadying and sta stab staging ing and ind keening keen I ing mg ing taut hut an its course this earth life of yours our against all this I world orld pillaging that that has crossed or that will mIl cross your nay av A life that has stood with and stood by and now stands by to the end of that endless way av A life that has en byI I glen gl en of its all A l life e that has YIelded you all even to a life of your 11 limes li cs twain Giving all aU a life Ufe can lone fidelity give fidelity love each ch to the full Enough said perhaps said perhaps too much It may be all surplusage As you now know all that is missing mussing from the fire side is the old clay shell That has gone back to that from which it was had But the spirit the soul all the eternity of life that is or ever was las that is with ou now That sits by and near near- near nearer than before or there is a I degree of affinity of soul the old I ch clay hulk barred That partition has been knocked down You don dont t I need the extra chair You are now I sitting down and rising up as one one- one ave jal as ac one And you kno eternity is a long time time-as time as Jon long lone as ae the greediest of us would ouM have it beI beI be beI Ithe I am not sorrowing with you John I am rejoicing rejoicing with you vou It ItIS Itis Itis IS en engraved engrained rn ed now on a tablet in the archIve of sour our two soul soul two 0 11 limes es that ran rang up true all true true-true true true to the tho earthly end which begins that th which has no end Let him who nho ho passes pases salute you you- ou ou lor f or lend in an envious eye God ble bless s vou you John And why should I ask Mk him to hnit tn may mav he be or or Just good will Old honest faithful ste friend and neIghbor man neighbor man could not deny you blessing much less God A Again thinks thanks for the weekly eky printed pageN page N NT T PORTER I 4 4 |