Eve's Daughters
“The news devastated Papa. The sound of his warm laughter no longer filled the parsonage as it used to, but a cloud of gloom fell over all of us, as thick as the cloud of smoke that would soon blanket Europe. Papa paced the floor of his study late into the night.
“God showed me it was coming, Louise,” he moaned as he read the newspaper, “but I never imagined it would be this bad.” He gazed solemnly across the dinner table at his wife and four daughters and murmured about how thankful he was ...that he’d left Germany when he did. Each time a letter arrived from Germany he would get angry, raging on and on about how he wished his relatives had listened to him and moved to America too. He favored neutrality for the United States and preached sermon after sermon about peace and about Jesus, the Prince of Peace. I prayed for the war to end too—so I would have my old papa back.
Mama had always been high-strung, but now her nerves seemed about to snap from the constant worry about her family back in Germany.MoreLess
“God showed me it was coming, Louise,” he moaned as he read the newspaper, “but I never imagined it would be this bad.” He gazed solemnly across the dinner table at his wife and four daughters and murmured about how thankful he was ...that he’d left Germany when he did. Each time a letter arrived from Germany he would get angry, raging on and on about how he wished his relatives had listened to him and moved to America too. He favored neutrality for the United States and preached sermon after sermon about peace and about Jesus, the Prince of Peace. I prayed for the war to end too—so I would have my old papa back.
Mama had always been high-strung, but now her nerves seemed about to snap from the constant worry about her family back in Germany.MoreLess
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