GREENWICH, MARCH 17TH, 1897

GREENWICH, MARCH 17TH, 1897

Mr. C. Leflaive.

My Dear Brother, — In saying that there is but one man in heaven I should intend to convey that there is but one order of man there. I do not think that much could be said of Enoch and Elijah — for the matter is in a certain amount of obscurity — and they were not to be made perfect without us. Christ is firstfruits of the resurrection, afterward they of the Christ at His coming. I think that it might be said Christ is the one Man in heaven. I am not very happy about interpreting thanksgiving and prayer in the meetings to the deaf and dumb. The one doing it is turning his attention away from God to man, and I cannot think that this can be right. The time is coming very shortly when I shall be free of secular occupation, and then I hope to carry out my promise to pay a visit to Manchester, D.V.

With love in the Lord,
Your affectionate brother,
F. E. Raven.