MAY 7TH, 1903

MAY 7TH, 1903

Mr. Telford.

I thank you for your kind enquiries. I do not know that I can report much progress. I think that I am a little stronger, but there is not as yet any subsidence of the trying symptoms, and indeed the doctors have not given one much expectation of their removal. I am still very weak and the breath very short with the least exertion and at night my cough is very trying, still so far the lung does not show any change for the worse. It was thought that I had better get away to the sea, so we came here, and I am very glad for the change, it will enable me to be more out of doors. It is now nearly six weeks since I went to a meeting, this is a new experience for me, but perhaps wholesome, for I have to learn how far truth which one has ministered to others is sufficient for myself. One thing at least I have wished, that I might know in my soul the power of resurrection so that if it should please the Lord to raise me up again, this might more characterise the ministry. Miss Evans. May 14th, 1903. I AM laid aside completely for the time and no one can say what the issue will be, naturally, for the sake of my wife and family I pray that I may be restored, if it be the Lord’s will. I would well like still to bear a part in the conflict of the truth, but the Lord has His own mind, and in the meantime I desire to know in my own soul the power of His resurrection.