JUNE 22ND, 1903

^[p. 208] JUNE 22ND, 1903

To Dr. Morrish.

I send a line to thank you and the brethren at Peckham for the very kind expression of love and sympathy conveyed in your note of the 18th inst. It would hardly have been my choice to have been laid aside in the way I have been from the path of service and I would fain have had a little more opportunity of serving the saints, but the Lord has willed it otherwise and He knows what He does. It is now a time of suffering in measure, and I trust, too, of learning more of the reality of things, and I pray that I may not fail to use the opportunity, at the same time I have besought God that I may not be overpowered with bodily pain. The whole system of eternal things is not far off and if one has to make the passage of death the Lord is on the other side; so Stephen found it.