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Letters to Mother LETTERS FROM KATHLEEN HAMILTON (NOW HASENBERG) TO HER MOTHER, 1934 - 1938 LETTERS FROM KATHLEEN HAMILTON (NOW HASENBERG) TO HER MOTHER, 1934 - 1938 LETTERS FROM KATHLEEN HAMILTON (NOW HASENBERG) TO HER MOTHER, 1934 - 1938 With a few other letters to or from various other people PLOUGH PUBLISHING HOUSE HUTTERIAN BRETHREN Farmington, PA, USA Robertsbridge, England ©1992 by the Plough Publishing House of The Hutterian Brethren Service Committee, Inc. Rifton, NY 12471, USA Robertsbridge, E. Sussex TN32 5DR, England All rights reserved LETTERS FROM KATHLEEN HAMILTON (NOW HASENBERG) TO HER MOTHER, 1934 - 1938 With a few other letters to or from various other people Notes that Mrs. Hamilton wrote on the envelopes of these letters have been typed at the top left- hand corner of each letter. In some cases the spelling has been left as in the original letters. Kathleen uses the following names Eberhard Arnold Papa Hardy Arnold Eberhard H., Eberhard Heinrich Her sister Agnes Baglink Her brother Alick Old Uncle Crabbe or Nunkie Her sister Maureen Maur The Hamilton's cat Blitz SCM Edinburgh 1934 [Pencil note] Written 2 months before I went to the Almbruderhof. K. 9, Craighouse Tce. Edinburgh.10 10.6.34 Sweetest Moth, Thanks for your long letter which arrived yesterday. How nice that you met the Gibsons: also the Godrey Paynes. It would be absolutely wonderful if the Gibsons visit Lichtenstein in the summer. I shall tell Marion Whyte about visitors at 35/- a week. I met her on Friday and she was asking particulars. I have just come in from an Auxiliary meeting on "The Church". I told them what I believed Christ meant by the Church--His Body, a community all members one of another, in the world to do God's will. It did not meet with unqualified approval. For one thing they did not think the Bruderhof in the world, and for another they thought it would simply mean a new sect in the church!!! Of course there were only a few people present--four others and myself, but they are people whose opinions I honour. However, I remain unconvinced. The enclosed letter arrived from John. I opened it as it was addressed to Misses Hamilton, which I took to be us. It was fine to get Crabbe's letter. I wonder if he is with you just now. I do hope you manage to see quite a bit of him. I am glad you are getting a long lie in the mornings. There is no need to be in a hurry back as things are going quite well here--bird catching, indeed, is going only too well. At the moment, we are keeping Blitz a prisoner to give a little bird a chance to make good its escape. That poor little bird was not seen again. If Blitz got it, that was at least better than starvation--poor little thing. Mothie darling, I don't know how to thank you for being so wonderful about the Bruderhof. As far as I have gone so far, I honestly believe it is God's will, not only for me, but objectively--that it is His Kingdom, not only in men's souls but in society: that it is doing His will on earth, as it is done in Heaven. I do not deny that I am terribly grateful to the Church (in its orthodox meaning) just as I am to the S.C.M. the Auxiliary, the Oxford Group and the F.O.R. They have all helped, but when I was told I should stay and try to make the Church of Scotland more Christian, I was reminded of pouring fresh wine into old wineskins. I know Jack Stevenson and others are trying to do it--and I honour them for it, for it takes a terrific courage, but it leaves unsolved the question of social justice. I know Jack, for one, is aware of this. I shall look forward enormously to hearing of Eberhard's [Hardy was known as Eberhard while a student in England] visit when it takes place. Since it is impossible to visit the Bruderhof, I suppose there is not much point in waiting to send in my resignation to the Educ. Committee. One has to give a month's notice and as we break up on July 19th, I suppose it would need to be in by June 19th. I do not think I need any more convincing that the Bruderhof is God's will. And I do not think that seeing it would make much difference--even suppose I did not like it (which I cannot conceive), I could not but be happy, knowing objectively, that it is God's will. If you would prefer my not resigning till I had at least seen Lichtenstein, I shall of course wait. Personally I am all for it, but you have been so rippingly considerate that I can gladly stand September in Lochend, if it would make your mind any easier. 2 Kathleen Hamilton's Letters, 1934 - 1938 By the way I got this in the News Chronicle--our old friend "Keeping your Powder Dry" in a new dress. To seek the full Support of God while relying in part on worldly aids is like trying to Swim with One Foot on the Bottom. By the way, I was guilty of steaming a letter of yours open!!!!! I recognised "the Rev. George's" fist, and opened it to see if he was calling soon, as I did not want him to confront an empty house a second time. Shall stop now, Mothie. Love, Kitty. P.S. Please give the "Fembly" my love. Kit. A message to Kathleen Hamilton from the Community in Germany, written by Eberhard Arnold its spokesman & spiritual leader. June'34. [This letter is written out in Mrs. Hamilton's writing.] Dear Kathleen This is an extract written to me by my Father. It is a message for you. "Please tell her how I share her inward struggle, & tell her she should not be afraid of the false motive of flight, because just this doubting anxiety is a fear which does not come out of perfect love. She should not doubt the objectivity and clarity of her will, for she affirms that she does not desire anything so much, as to live in the unity of the Community; she acknowledges it is the true life; she is longing so unspeakably for the right motives; she confesses that her only desire is that God shall use her & she is looking forward greatly to the Bruderhof. Is it cowardice to desire to get out of unjust & unchristian ways of work? Is it a wish for flight that makes one realise, that one is kept prisoner by a wrong system? On the contrary isn't this feeling of captivity in the faults of the system, an experience of the truth? If she asks whether God can be frustrated by Capitalism, we must ask some more questions. Is He frustrated by lying? Is He frustrated by unfaithful impurity? Is He frustrated by manslaughter and murder? The subjective Xianity of the Churches with its experience of a salvation which is personal only, cannot imagine in what struggle God is involved with demonic powers, & that the struggle has not been decided yet. So we must answer to this question of Kathleen's simply "You are frustrating God because you are connected with capitalism, & other diabolical things of the present time. You hinder Him from coming to His aim with you. This goal of God is clear to you--namely that He will use you for His truth. That means that you must not live for anything else, that you must not even spend a single hour in your so called professional life any longer than you can help, but only & solely, moment by moment, live for the love of Jesus Christ which has become reality in the unity of His Church." Eberhard Arnold. Kathleen Hamilton's Letters, 1934 - 1938 3 Eberhard's [Hardy's] Begging Letter 109, Gt. Russel St. W.C.1 14th of July 1934 Dear Kathleen, I think it is the best thing to do to answer your letter at once. I appreciate it very much, that you criticise so openly, because this is the right spirit, and the only possible way of fellowship. I agree with everything you write with regard to faith. Of course, everything in such a life is built on faith and on nothing else. Also the economic and material things must be dealed with by faith in the almighty, and nothing else whatsoever. That is the very base of community life. But there is one very important point, where our attitude is different from those social works you refer to. We know that we must be active, faith is active faith. We do not sit in our chairs and wait for money, we do everything we can do to get it for the children, always knowing that God gives it. The same applies to work in general. If we work the farm and the work-shops, it is the same active faith as if we go begging. We know, everything comes from God, the crops as well as the money, but we must do something for it to show our devotion, and to show, that faith is always active. The same is done by those people the paper cutting refers to, who have boxes for money at the entrance, that is also begging, but only a very hidden and even cunning form of it.
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