Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-05-22
OLD FRIENDS REJOICE WITH HER

Several weeks ago the PILoT pub
lished part of letter received from
Mrs. Geo. Casterline, of California, a
| former resident of Wausau. The other
/ day we received another letter from her
/ and as it corrects a few miscellaneous
| made by We editor, and, is very inter-
esting reading, we take the liberty of
publishing the same, knowing that it
will be enjoyed by all of her old friends
1t is as follows:
MORGAN HILL, CAL, MAY 10, 1906
T.. b. THAYER,
Editor PILOT
Ny Dear Friend.-I received the PILoT
containing the letters concerning the
earthquake of April 18th, and also of
Vesuvius, April Sth. | am glad to be
remembered by you; but wish to set
you right as to my age; yet lack three
years of four score, dating from June
II, 1906. will say, to the praise of my
Heavenly Father. am in full posses
SION of all my faculties. My mind is
clear without any confusion whatever.
Ny memory IS wonderfully good.
feel SO thankful to live these days in
such perfect composure and rich
religious experience. Truly, | have
been led in green pastures and beside
the diving still waters" how differ
ent it would have been if | had not
given myself wholly to the Lord in my
younger days. If | had a thousand
lives to live here on earth | would
devote them ali to God. Why not?
Has He not given us all we have? Is it
not His just due? | know by the read
ing of Gods word that tribulation and
sorrow must come The changes which
are to be wrought in the earth must
come through earthquake, fire, wind,
hail; but all will be well in the end for
those who have their names written in
the Lambs Book of Life" Phillip
plans As. and Rev. 81 27.
1t is my constant prayer that this
earthquakes warning may be the.means
of arousing the dull sensibilities of very
many to the acceptance of salvation
God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son that whatsoever
believeth in Him might not perish but
have everlasting life" John 3:l6.
May the admonition given in Luke
81 SO be needed by us all; for surely we
are in "perilous times" I'd Tim. 3 l.
Solemn days are these. Do you not
think so?
With well wishes for all my friends
in dear old Wausau, | remain as ever,
your faithful friend Love to all.
s. b. CAsTERLINE
Mrs. Casterline goes on, in a post
script, to say that her granddaughter
family who were in San Francisco at
the time OF the earthquake, were faring
very we'll
To give the readers of the Pilot an
insight as to how they are managing
things in San Francisco, the PILoT will
give an extract of a letter written to
Mrs. Casterline by her granddaughter,
Mrs. Mary Il. Kellogg, and which was
enclosed IN the letter to this paper, viz:
We'll, we are getting along pretty
well on account of my husbands posi-
ton as superintendent of this camp.
lie has $500 to supply and look after.
They all seem to love him so much and
appreciate his necessarily hard work
He organized the whole place, regu-
lar town; has post office, emergency
hospital, drug store, milk, bread, meat
and grocery commiSSary, a clothing
and bedding bureau. | assist in that.
We fiji the poor like ourselves now out
in the garments and shoes as fast as we
can get them to do with. We have a
place to live in, a big building whole
block long and 40 feet wide; an office
and small bed room off from it, and
we have another large room Is feet by
20 feet long next to it. We cook out
doors on camp stove. 1t is very noisy
of course, especially evenings. as there
are about 700 people in this building,
but they really do try to be as consider
ate as possible. Our house is all gone,
nothing but ashes now. Oh, dear, it is
so awful, but l try not to worry, while
[ have you all. | cannot complain,
when so many right around us are so
sorrowful for their dead and injured" I