GREENWICH, FEBRUARY 5TH, 1902

GREENWICH, FEBRUARY 5TH, 1902

My Dear Brother, — I am glad to answer your letter according to the best of my ability. It appears to me that it is possible for any one of us to apostatise so far as we ourselves are concerned, but there is another consideration, and that is that we are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last times. I have not a doubt that God will keep those that are really His. It may be sometimes through trial and sorrow, but He will keep our souls alive so that we should not be overcome by the influence ^[p. 182] of things here. And herein is our confidence. Anything is possible if I were left to myself, but God will not do this. If a man that had been esteemed a christian were to apostatise, and such cases have been known, it would show that there had never been really a work of God in him, he had stood in his own strength.

With love in the Lord, and hope for your spiritual prosperity, believe me,

Your affectionate brother,
F. E. Raven.