7/ 28/44
Dear folkses,
I
can see right now that this isn’t going to be much of a letter I just don’t
have anything to write.
I
reckon I can tell about the weather. It has been nice and clear and the sun
shines all the time with a few little fuzzy white clouds now and then.
Sometimes it gets hot in the afternoon.
I
have gone swimming a few times in the rivers. It is about five minutes walk and
we have set supper back so that we have a half hour to swim in after work. I
think if I go every night I may learn to swim before the summer is over. It
sure is fun.
We
have had a very interesting guest here this week. Irene Pickard. She is an
English Friend and she and her husdband worked for the AFSC in Genevia
Switzerland for 14 years. I don’t know what all they did I guess there was a
sort of school there that kids from all over Europe were brought to and I
suppose they had something to do with the feeding that has been done as all of
that has gone through Switzerland. They got pretty close to all the world
politics meeting and the league of Nations and she is reall up on that sort of
thing. We have had a couple of discussions around camp as to what part we as
pacifists can and should play in the Churches. So many of us are discusted with
the way the church has been doing, not only with the war question but
everything that comes along that makes much difference. We had a discussion on
that the other night. It wasn’t very satisfactory tho. I had the feeling that
there were a number of men there that believed very strongly on a certain kind
of God and they thought that the rest of us didn’t believe in God at all and
they were trying to convince us that there really was a God. There are really
very few men in the CPS that would call themselves Athiests. There are a lot of
us that have gotten away from our old conception of God tho. We don’t know a
lot of the things that some people think they know about God and God’s will and
we aren’t willing to guess at them and call it faith. I hope we have some more
discussions on this in the future.
We
are beginning to get aquainted with our new director. They are swell people.
Yours
with love and stuff
Bernard
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