1  NOTE

The above version of this reading has been amended in accordance with the following, which appeared in Issue No 27.

A WORD IN ITS SEASON No. 23

Concern has been expressed as to certain remarks, accurately quoted in the second Reading on Fellowship, which was published in the above issue. It has been suggested that they could, in the mind of the reader, weaken the necessity of separation from evil - stressed elsewhere in that article: no weakening was intended. 

Turning to the notes: the statement ‘…is not separation from evil…’ (this was in italics) would have been better rendered ‘…is not only separation from evil…’.  – G.J.Richards

2  Similarly ‘…the act of separation is not our ground of gathering…’ would be better rendered ‘…the act of separation, as essential as this is, is not alone our ground of gathering’. – G.J.Richards