MARCH 19TH, 1897

MARCH 19TH, 1897

To J.B.S. I cannot sent you on the enclosed without taking the opportunity of writing you a few lines. I saw last evening and had a good account of you, and am most thankful that you are still sustained in vigour of ^[p. 133] mind and comparative freedom from bodily suffering. One can take account of this as being very distinctly of the Lord’s goodness. There are other proofs, too, of His interest in and care for His testimony and those identified with it. The refusal of the ridiculous performance at H —, and the bringing together on a moral platform of the scattered elements there, seem evidence of His hand. I think, too, that there are signs of a growing apprehension that deliverance must accompany life in the christian, and that life is enjoyed in the light of Christ revealed as the expression and pattern of God’s purpose as to us. I think that many, and I trust myself, too, see that we have to leave the boat and walk on the water to apprehend the Lord in a quite new light. I trust that thus what we have been through in the last few years has not been lost upon us.