DEAR MRS. R—:
I am ever so sorry for delaying so long to write to you, but I received the tracts, and I thank you ever so much for sending them to me. I have given part of them to my mother, who has not seen the marvelous light the DEAR Jesus gives when you come to Him, and I would be so glad if she and my father were Christians; it would so nice.
Miss G—, one of Mlle’s friends, was visiting us for her health and she is a true Christian. One day I was looking at her Bible, and I only found one page which was not marked. She has had her Bible for fifteen years, and that is her treasure; she carries it almost every place she goes.
After she had gone, my grandmother came to visit us, who is a Christian, too. One night after we had finished our Bible reading, she said, “Now let us spend a few moments in prayer.” And so we all knelt down, and she offered the sweetest and plainest prayer I had ever heard in my life.
And then my brother and my father came, and we had to stop giving thanks for the food to God. Now, dear Mrs. R—, do you think I ought to give thanks before my father for an example? It would be rather hard to find a few still moments to say it.
Could you please tell me, dear Mrs. R—, how you would try to make my mother a Christian; and then if my mother was a Christian it seems to me my father would become one, too. Please tell me, Mrs. R—, what you would do if you were in my place, because if my father and mother were Christians the whole family would be; and my grandmother and grandfather, too.
Now, dear Mrs. R—, I shall have to close my letter.
Your friend with love,
PAUL D. W.
ML 12/27/1903