Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Gyllenhaal in Durban, Natal, South Africa. Pendleton has received Gyllenhaal’s letters of May 8th and 29th. Pendleton discusses Gyllenhaal’s report of his missionary trip to Basutoland; Pendleton is interested in Gyllenhaal’s assessment of the spiritual state and development of the Basuto people. In Bryn Athyn, thirty half-working scholarship students have arrived on campus to get the college buildings ready for the school year. This year...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Gyllenhaal in Durban, Natal, South Africa. Pendleton has received Gyllenhaal’s letters of Dec. 31st, Jan. 5th, Jan. 10th, and Feb. 1st. Gyllenhaal’s report of his trip to Basutoland was read at a Joint Meeting of the Consistory and Executive Committee; There was much interest in the school Gyllenhaal has established with the help of Mr. Buss. Pendleton informs Gyllenhaal of the death of Rev. (Carl) Odhner. Rev. Will Caldwell will be asked to...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Gyllenhaal in Durban, Natal, South Africa. Pendleton has received Gyllenhaal’s letter of April 18th with enclosed membership applications for Mr. and Mrs. J. D’Arcy Cockerell and Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Cockerell, as well as a copy of Mr. Price’s letter to Gyllenhaal with Gyllenhaal’s reply. Pendleton suggests that Price’s letter be interpreted in charity with the assumption that he did not realize what he was doing. Pendleton reports that Bryn...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Gyllenhaal in Durban, Natal, South Africa. Pendleton writes that he does not understand the enclosed letters relating to a matter in South Africa, but he thinks Gyllenhaal will. Pendleton reports that Bryn Athyn has been relatively quite with all the students on summer vacation and many of the teachers taking summer courses at Columbia, Chicago, Cornell. Pendleton discusses the War; The country is pleased with the news of Ferdinand Foch’s...

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Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Gyllenhaal in Toronto, Canada. Pendleton requests a reply from Gyllenhaal regarding whether or not he should visit Toronto during the time originally set for the Assembly. Alan (Gill) has requested that Pendleton visit Kitchener, and Pendleton discusses potential plans to visit both Toronto and Kitchener. He writes that during the “war period,” he visited Toronto and Kitchener yearly, and these visits had a similar effect to an Assembly.

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Waelchli in Rosthern, Canada. Pendleton has received Waelchli’s letters to him of August 4th and 14th and to the Bishop (W. F. Pendleton) of July 25th. He is pleased to hear that Waelchli’s work in the Canadian Northwest is going so well and that the Church has been gaining so many new followers. He comments, “Our opponents say that wherever we go we divide the Church. That is at times the appearance, but what they do not realize, or rather...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Waelchli in Berlin, Canada. Pendleton has received Waelchli’s letters August 25th and September 4th, sent respectively from Rosthern and Kenora. Pendleton is glad his letters are encouraging to Waelchli and wishes he had time to write more. He reports that they have finally heard from Alfred Stroh in Sweden; They had not heard from him for two or three months after he went to Spain. Mr. Wilde of the “Morning Light” was contacted by Stroh from...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Waelchli in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Pendleton has received Waelchli’s letter of September 16th. He is busy preparing for a trip to Chicago, Glenview, and Denver, and only has time to address one matter in Waelchli’s letter, namely, that of how to handle the situation in Cincinnati with reference to war prejudices. He writes, “All that I can say is that I presume some tact in handling the situation would be called for. Now you know that...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Waelchli in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Pendleton reports that the Landenberger correspondence has been read to the Consistory and will be given to Dr. Boericke. He comments, “It is quite clear that our opponents in Convention are determined to impute to the General Church a scandalous attitude. This will inevitably react upon them, according to the spiritual law that whatsoever one would bring upon another is brought upon one’s self.” He and...

Scope and Contents Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Fred E. Waelchli in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada. Pendleton reports that, in Bryn Athyn, the summer is ending and some of the teachers have returned from their summer vacations. Despite the war making it difficult for boys over 18 to attend the Academy, they are expecting at least 16 pupils in the boys’ dormitory and 25 in the girls’. Pendleton has noted Waelchli’s statement about the encouraging and discouraging aspects of his missionary work in...