Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family

Reverend D.W. Hoggard to Harriet Anna Yancey, Christmas 1939

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Reverend Hoggard writes a letter of Christmas greetings to Harriet Yancey.

Rev. D.W. Hoggard
558 North 58th Street
Philadelphia, PA.
Mt. Camel Baptist Church
58th & Race Streets
Philadelphia, PA.
Telephone Sherwood 0136

To: Mrs Harriett A. Yancey
Highland Ave
Plainfield, N.J.
Postmark: Philadelphia 3, P.A.
DEC 22, 1939
9-PM "The Seasons Greetings" appears on the envelope.

Christmas 1939

Dear Member:

Since you are in my kindliest thoughts at this recurring Anniversary of joy and good will, I send this little message to tell you that I am wishing for you and yours, all that is best and happiest and most useful, through all this gladsome Christmas and New Year season, and throughout all the after years of your life.

I would offer these prayerful wishes for you even as I offer them for myself: That songful memories may gladden you, and conquering hopes inspire you, and wide flowing helpfulness attend all your days and deeds.

That you may constantly live as seeing Him who is invisible, your soul calm, hopeful and unafraid, even when the winds are wild and the storms seem cruel, because of your abiding trust in Him who never fails.

That the light upon all your earthly way, whether the way wind up hill or down, through smiling prosperity or black robed adversity, may shine brighter and brighter unto that perfect day which brings all sadness to an end, and all joy to a glorious consumption.

And at the end of your earthly way, may you find that it is not an end but a beginning, the passing from the veiled and shadowy glory of the temporal into the unveiled and real glory of the eternal, and there may you meet your Lord unafraid, and go to be with Him, and with others, "loved long since and lost awhile."

Your friend and Minister,
D. W. Hoggard and family
Rev. D.W. Hoggard

Published by: Virginia Center for Digital History

Source copy consulted: Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family (MSS 11599), Alderman Library, University of Virginia

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