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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, September-October 1942

1942-10-26 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 5

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you to see the chaplain about being baptized. She wouldn't want you to do that without faith, but she felt you had the respect and ideals that should lead you to share that ceremony and definitely seal your faith in a t specific way and time. You know her church put more emphasis on the importance of the ceremony as such than the Protestant Churches do. Just how eternal life is lived, in what way etc, we do not know yet we both feel the permanence of values. If we didn't there would be no point in trying to be personally decent or in fighting a war for the perpetuation of freedom. Shall I cease now on my much speaking? Is is so hard to try to express thoughts this slow way. Maybe I better leave such big topics until we talk in person rather than run the danger of being muddling in my expressions of such important ideas. Or do you think this way is

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5 you to see the chaplain about being baptized. She wouldn't want you to do that without faith, but she felt you had the respect and ideals that should lead you to share that ceremony and definitely seal your faith in a t specific way and time. You know her church put more emphasis on the importance of the ceremony as such than the Protestant Churches do. Just how eternal life is lived, in what way etc, we do not know yet we both feel the permanence of values. If we didn't there would be no point in trying to be personally decent or in fighting a war for the perpetuation of freedom. Shall I cease now on my much speaking? Is is so hard to try to express thoughts this slow way. Maybe I better leave such big topics until we talk in person rather than run the danger of being muddling in my expressions of such important ideas. Or do you think this way is