GREENWICH, APRIL 21ST, 1903

GREENWICH, APRIL 21ST, 1903

Mr. J. Edmondson.

My Dear Brother, — I had your letter this morning, and was glad to hear that you had been to Belfast, and had enjoyed the meetings there. I only regret that I was unable to be there, it was with great disappointment that I gave up the thought of going, and when the moment arrived I was so poorly that it was out of the question. I have consulted at the wish of my doctor a physician in London, and they are agreed that the root of the mischief is a thickening at the top of the right lung, with some corresponding thickening of some of the glands of the chest. They are now watching to see what this may develop into. I trust in the mercy of God that the evil may be stayed. For the present I am an invalid, going out only for a little time in the best of the day. As you say, it is in some sense a mercy and gives one time to review things. One has to learn how one can go on without the activities of service. I trust that I may learn what is true for the simplest saint, that Christ is enough. It ^[p. 199] is a great point to be tested as to whether you are in the good of that which you have ministered. I am glad that Lewis Myers went back with you. He is a worthy fellow, and it is good for him to get a little change from his ordinary surroundings. I have understood that Mr. Broomhead is going into Dublin, I wonder how he will be received there. And now allow me to thank you very heartily for your kind thought and consideration of me in temporal things. I do not suppose that you will be the poorer in result for your liberality, and you have the more blessed place of giving. It is a great thing to give of that which we have. No doubt the present illness will entail considerable expense. Give my kind love in the Lord to your wife and mother, and brother and his wife, and believe me,

Your affectionate brother,
F. E. Raven.