10, CROOMS HILL, GREENWICH, JANUARY 23RD, 1899

10, CROOMS HILL, GREENWICH, JANUARY 23RD, 1899

Mr. F. Fentiman.

My Dear Brother, — On Saturday evening a brother whom I had known in times past, named Allinson, from Sheffield, called on me. He would not shake hands as, he said, he was out of fellowship. In course of conversation he told me that some eighteen months ago he had been asked to sit outside on the supposition of unrighteousness in regard to his business — but that this being proved to be groundless he was afterwards put out of fellowship on a charge of railing — he says further that he does not know in what the charge consists, and wrote in October last asking for information, but has had no answer to his letter. Can you tell me if there is any ground for withholding this information? I do not know if I should have written in the matter, but for knowing something of yourself.

^[p. 150] I hope that through mercy you are the better in health for your change from London.

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