12/16/43 Letter from EC to Mrs. [
2174]: "I have yours of
the eighth, and it was mighty good to hear from you again.
I appreciate more than I know how to tell you, your
contribution to the Living Sponsorship. There has been
very good response but a very few of the old members have
responded, as we thought they might. Among the new ones, I
suppose their enthusiasm accounts for it, but most of them
have been from people who have just had their rdgs., and
evidently want to help in any way they can. This of
course, is gratifying to us.
"We certainly have been snowed under here with letters,
requests, wires, phone calls, everything! But we have gotten
along fine and, but I don't know whether its getting the best
of me, or Gertrude and Miss Gladys. We are having to have
now about 10 in the office, so you know there is a lot of
work to be done.
"We are doing much more, of course, than we ever thought
possible. Might be of interest to you to know how this came
about. I hope sometime in the not too distant future to see
you and talk with you about this. Its not something you can
write.
"Yes, it will be quite different for you to be away from
[...] for Christmas. How is the baby getting along? Fine,
I'm sure. You should see our babies. Although, one is only
about a year old, he is old enough it seems to get excited
about Santa Claus.
"It will be nice for you and [...] to be with Capt. [...].
I had often wondered if he was at Great Lakes. I know 2 or
3 boys that had been there in the last few months, and they
have spoken of him so often.
"Thank you again, for everything, and glad to know everything
is going so well. Remember me to all who would care to hear,
and with every good wish for the holiday season, and love to
all."
2/01/44 Letter from [
2174] to EC: "My dear, I would like
to talk things out with you. Somehow now that your ability
to personally meet all the demands upon you has become so
pointed up in its impossibility there should some other
picture develop. Giving of one's self ever is all right
- that must be of course but I feel that a new angle is
developing and must develop - you see you must not work until
you give out - that is not right and defeats everything. I
don't know any answers - I am too far away & know too little
of the situation. One thought would be that the intelligent
correlating of material from the rdgs. would furnish living
material for people to work out their own problems - that is
what they must do in the end. It is not as easy nor doesn't
give many facets that the readings give - but - but, you
are doing it of course to some extent - the bulletins are
interesting - good stuff. But some material like this
psychic-spiritual reading that would meet an angle of a
specific problem.
"Of course I have always felt that that was the angle of
attack and that the physical would follow. Some excerpts
from the rdgs. said that.
"All this is not to much avail - just thoughts. Anyway don't
go out & under - you must not. If you can once mentally see
your direction clear even before you have been able to work
toward it things will straighten out.
"I will try to see you sometime - I can't tell when I can get
away - my life is a series of 'musts' that take shape &
unfold as I go along. You know - but I will come sometime."
3/10/44 Letter from EC to Mrs. [
2174]: "I wish it were
possible for me to have the opportunity to sit down and
talk with you. I trust you are going to be with us in the
Congress this year the week of the 18th to 25th of June. Let
me know if that time is going to be alright, if not, I will
change the whole works. I hope it will be possible for you
to be here because we need you more than at any time since we
have been carrying on.
"I hope I don't ever try to overdo myself. I only want to do
all that I possibly can, and yet I know that I can do nothing
at all of myself. If I do drive the physical too hard of
course something will happen.
"Recently I took a little rest as you know, but came back
all 'tuckered' out rather than relaxed as much as I should
have been. Everything was all awry according to my own
personality. I proceeded to get in a dither and a stew and
of course you know what that did to me. The last two weeks
I have been in bed with the flu; with the pneumonia; with
the grippe; with everything thats bad. Feeling some little
better and hope possibly to be back at work next week. I
am trying in the meantime to get all of my personal letters
written.
"If you find the time drop us a line and let me know about
the time of the Congress.
"Our appointments have gotten so far behind we are just
pitiful."
3/18/44 Letter from [
2174]: "Oh dear - not too good news
from you. It's not that I doubt you in any way ever except
that all human beings are fallible.
"It merely is that when a situation is impossible - physical
rdgs. six month's ahead defeat their own purpose - one
should start again at scratch in one's view of essentials and
find the way out. There always is one. I certainly don't
know what it is.
"I can come to the Conference - not all of it as school
closes the 16th & I cannot leave immediately. But I will
get there especially if you think I can be of use."
3/25/44 Letter from EC: "Thanks a lot for your letter of the
18th.
"No, I haven't been so good, but I hope I am on the improve.
I don't lay it to over work. I lay it to being unable to
control my temper. I know that's what was the matter with
me. Mother hasn't been very well, but stayed up most of
the time, but she is feeling better and is carrying on.
We are back at work, but being out two or three weeks, has
complicated things a great deal, for many of the people are
not prone to want to wait and we can appreciate it.
"I do hope that you will be at the Congress at least for the
last two or three days, if it isn't possible for you to be
here the whole week. I know that you are very, very busy,
but we do need your council and advice.
"Have you heard from Dr. [
2246]? Of course you knew about
his illness and of [...]'s writing for a rdg. and the doctor
agreed to follow the suggestions and Dr. [...] is just about
back on his feet. My! I was uneasy about him, because the
conditions weren't very good when we first had it. He seems
to think there is a chance for a deep test. [See [
1561]
series.] I hope it works out. Have you heard anything
about it?
"Please let me hear from you, and with love from each one of
us to each of you..."
4/11/44 Letter from [
2174]: "Yes there is a very good chance
for a deep test. In fact [
2091] is going down Friday to
finish the deal. Everyone says it is good. It seems that a
group of people owning land (us & around) are going together
- checkerboarding our holdings & drilling. Hunt is wich [?]
& a lif [?] oil company so that we will have enough cash to
make the test final. Mr. Myers [J. T. Myers] is going to
drill. It looks very, very good. My will I be glad to have
that off my shoulders and behind us. We don't know on whose
land the well will be drilled that is up to their geologists
and it does not really matter as they are out to develop if
they find oil. I did not know of [
2246]'s illness - it would
have been TRAGIC to have him go hope the oil came in.
"As my deals are working out for this summer I may have to
be back on the 23rd June which means that I could arrive the
18th & stay a day or two. Anyway I will come.
"The picture of you going around losing your temper
somehow does not fit and I maintain that it in itself is a
manifestation of something deeper not a cause. February &
March have been hectic months emotional for everyone - only I
go into a defensive instead of losing my temper. April will
be better. You tell the people that don't want to wait that
beggars cannot be choosers - or get someone else to tell
them.
"Anyway my love to you all - and I'll be down I only wish it
were at a time when one could pow-wow - but I suppose those
days are gone for you."
4/14/44 Letter from EC: "Thanks very much for yours of the
11th.
"I am glad to hear that there is going to be a good chance
for a deep test in the vicinity of the holdings of the
company. I suppose the well will go down pretty close to
where our friend Mr. Marcus [Geo. L. Marquess] pointed out
when he had me come to Texas to look at the location, as I
think I told you about. Certainly messed me up at that time,
but that's something else. I hope the operations go on and
you get a real test, for I believe they will find oil there,
yet, I am of the opinion that they won't be very close to it,
unless they go awfully, awfully deep. I am sure you are glad
to have it off your shoulders and that the thing will work
out alright. I hope Mr. [
2091] will have no trouble in
getting the things arranged.
"Yes, Dr. [
2246] was pretty ill. I really was surprised at
his responding so well as he seems to think he has, to the
suggestions that were made. It isn't very often that we
are able to get two or three schools of medicine to work
together."
"It will certainly be nice to see you again. I do hope you
will be able to spend a few days with us.
"I am hoping to get the Life Reading for your new grand-son
[
5008] today. I trust it will be interesting and worthwhile.
"No, I think I was about right about the picture of the
source or cause of the greater part of my recent illness. I
understand that many of us do jump at conclusions, but I have
tried to study it over pretty thoroughly and I think that's
right.
"What do you hear from your boys? You are so accustomed
to having your family in all the dangerous places in the
country, you just put them in the hands of the Lord and go on
and tend to your own business. We are of course, not always
able to forget and to wholly trust in the Divine.
"I will be mighty happy to show you our grand-sons. I am
sure you will have to say they are about as fine a couple
of boys as you ever saw.
"Looking forward to seeing you, and with love from each and
everyone here, I remain"
4/14/44 See grandson [
5008]'s Life Reading, Par. 30-A, 31-A
re. her [
2174] handling his education, etc.
9/23/47 Mrs. [
1770]'s letter: "Called on Mrs. [
2174] at ...
School - it's a delightful place. We had a half hour's chat
and she sends her love to you [GD] and Hugh Lynn."
2/06/70 GD's note: Mrs. [...] told me she had just returned
from placing her daughter in Mrs. [
2174]'s school; and Mrs.
[
2174] requested that we send copies of all her readings,
since a terrific fire a few weeks ago had destroyed the
original building, books, records, papers, etc.
