4, WEST PARK TERRACE, SCARBOROUGH, AUGUST 23RD, 1902
4, WEST PARK TERRACE, SCARBOROUGH, AUGUST 23RD, 1902
Mr. P. R. Morford.
My Dear Brother, — It becomes necessary for me to look forward to the time that I shall be absent in America, D.V., and to make arrangements for the preaching at Greenwich. I shall be away for eight Sundays, beginning with September 21st, and I should be very glad to know you were free and able to take up three or four of these Sundays, if possible at the beginning. This would be a great service to me. Perhaps you will send me a line at your convenience. I heard from Mrs. Monteith that you were going to [p. 189] stay with her in Scotland for a time, I suppose that this is now over and hope that you enjoyed it and are the better for it, though I fear that you had not favourable weather. This is judging by our experience here, where the weather is very broken. Still we are enjoying it and have hearty fellowship with the saints. Mrs. Parker is at Filey, but has caught a very severe cold. I hope that all is going on prosperously with you at Clapham, and generally in London, though I suppose that many are out of it now. One feels anxious about things sometimes, while there is the use of means amongst us that are not of the Spirit of God. Unity is in the Spirit, and therefore anything outside of the Spirit must in measure tend in the direction of disunion. However, the Lord is over all. I hope that Mrs. Morford and the children are well, and with kind love in the Lord, remain,
Your affectionate brother,
F. E. Raven.