JONATHAN AND RUTH

JONATHAN AND RUTH

I think we all would like to have our David where we are, as Jonathan did, but affection for Him, like that of Ruth for Naomi, would leave all our own surroundings to be with Him where He is, as Peter did when he left the ship and walked on the water to go to Jesus. We can know His services His attentions, and support from Him, from where He is, but we cannot join Him, that is be with Him, without crossing the Jordan, seeking the things which are above where Christ sitteth.

I was very glad to get your letter and to get good tidings of you all. I wish you had told me the part of my word on Hebrews which particularly interested you. I believe when we are near the Lord, He gives us first what He sees we need most, as He declared forgiveness to the palsied man before He relieved him of the palsy. It is very cheering to be assured that many hearts were drawn nearer to the Lord during the meetings in ————. The more I ponder and hear the more I am conscious that the Lord ^[p. 155] greatly favoured us. I long to see some who have been drawn away restored, and that vitality might so increase in the sound members that the unsound ones might be re-animated in such true divine vigour as to be set free from their surroundings.

Whenever you have good tidings, “snow in summer”, you might share with me. My love to ————. May she sit under His shadow with great delight and may His fruit be sweet to her taste.