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EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS

Following are extracts from letters written by Mrs. Ruth

Hardwick (widow of Mr.P. H.

Hardwick), whom the Lord took on 6th January 1989. They

have kindly been made available by Mrs. G. Cossham.

3 Nov., 1983

What it means to us, when we can no longer care for

ourselves, to prove a Father’s care. This now means you can

give your time up to what I know is so near your heart, to learn

more of the way God in His love brings us into touch with the

great sphere of things in His own mind—Christ, and the

assembly, now and eternally to be for His praise. It is such

depth, and yet the Holy Spirit in us is the power to search

things out.

We have been going through much exercise … as you know.

God’s love will have every matter thoroughly searched out.

Persons are not the issue, but the truth, so guarded and

preserved by those who have gone before. Now it means

prayer and fasting and much patience to be with the Lord in all

matters.

23 Nov., 1983

I had the report that you were safely through the operation

…What peace it gives us to know not one thing is unknown to

our faithful Creator … I do pray for you that the sense of the

nearness of the Lord Jesus may help you with patience and

peace, for it may be a few weeks before medical treatment

shows the result …

The prayers going up from so many bring out God’s love,

proved specially when we so need it, but never more precious

to each one of us than when we remember that He gave His