MARCH 5TH, 1903

MARCH 5TH, 1903

I very often feel depressed at the poverty of my service, for though one may be useful in some little way, there are deficiencies which largely tend to counterbalance this, and hence one can find but scanty satisfaction in one’s work. I daresay that this is well. I pray that you both may be greatly and increasingly enriched of the Lord in all that is good and enduring. I reached this (Manchester) yesterday, and this afternoon we began our meetings. A good many will be here from one place and another, and from what I gathered from a number of brothers whom I met last evening, there ^[p. 196] seems to be some expectation from the meetings, which I hope may not be disappointed. We had a good reading on Tuesday (brothers’ reading in London), and the thought of the house of God came before us. There was a good deal of conversation, and I think that there was the disposition to accept the thought of the house as a spiritual house, which could not lose its character. I sought to maintain that Christ was the Builder of God’s house, while the work of man was connected with christianity as a system of profession in the world.