Sunday, October 27, 1946

October 27, 1946

664 W 13th

San Pedro, Calif

Dear Father, Mother, and the rest of the folks at home,

This has certainly been the rainiest fall I have experienced in Calif. Most years it didn’t even rain at all until November or December and this year it has had one previous rainy spell & now another one has come along. Last night I woke up to hear that it was raining, but it has held off today; now however (about 5 o’clock) it is starting to sprinkle a little. I guess it maybe the aftermath of the warm weather we had last Thursday when the temperature got up to 96°F in downtown L.A. Friday was warm not anything like that. Yesterday afternoon about 2 o’clock a solid bank of clouds started rolling in from the sea — it certainly look[ed] spectacular, just like a curtain being pulled across the sky.

Friday night I went to a show after I had practiced awhile on the piano. It was certainly a stinko double-feature but I didn’t feel like doing anything else so sat thru most of it. I didn’t get to bed till 11:30 which is way past my usual bedtime. I woke up about 6:30 Saturday morning tho, went down to church & practiced till about 9:00, took some clothes to the cleaners, had breakfast, went to the bank, did some incidental shopping and ordered a couple of lettering pens at the Floyd Stationery Store. At one I had music lesson and then went down town for some lunch, went to the library & read Time & took out a book on, you guessed it, philosophy and came back to my room and read till about seven. I took a hot shower and went to bed and got in a good 11 hours of sleep. I woke up at 4 for a few minutes but I just turned over and it was 7 before I woke up again.

This morning the S.S. had a missionary program so the lesson period was shorter as a consequence. My class is a lesson behind where they should be, so I tried to hurry them thru the one for today even if the time was short, in order not to get farther behind. I have looked thru the quarterlies we have — they are the Christian Growth Series, evidently approved by the Augustana Synod since J. Vincent Nordgren is one of the editors of the series. My series covers the New Testament and I certainly feel like a dope teaching it because it is, on the basis of the reading I have done about the New Testament, certainly inaccurate not to say deliberately untrue in some of the statements in makes. I have incidentally checked on the authority of my stand and find that the book where I got my new conception of the New Testament — “Christian Beginnings” by Enslin is regarded as o.k. by the Augustana Synod & is used in classes there, so I am sure I am right and the quarterlies are in error. But I do wish that preachers and writers would stop dallying with truth the way they do and not hesitate to say what is so, even if it punctures some favorite traditions. This morning Pastor Swand said, “Ye shall know the truth & the truth shall make you free” but everybody seems to be hiding from the truth as if it were anathema; but there I go again — I guess I’d better stop.

With love,

C.P.