GREENWICH, MARCH 9TH, 1891

GREENWICH, MARCH 9TH, 1891

Mr. J. Edmondson.

My Dear Brother, — I thank you for the enclosures to your letter. I am sorry that I am unable to do anything for you in regard to the printed papers of December 6th and March 21st, they are sold out and the type broken up. I send you now three copies of the paper of July 3rd.

What I have understood by the expression ‘our standing in Christ’ current amongst us, was that we were before God ranged under a new head in whose acceptance we stand. But then there is a corresponding subjective state of soul produced by the quickening power of God, so that we are alive in Christ — are new created in Him — and this, one can hardly call standing, and I have spoken of it as state. It is state that corresponds to the standing.

I think there is a distinction between what we are and what we have in Christ. We are in Christ a new ^[p. 51] creation — of a new order, heavenly, as He is. We have in Him redemption, peace, acceptance, etc.

Believe me,
Your affectionate brother,
F. E. Raven.

PS. — Both ‘standing’ and ‘state’ in the way we use them are human terms.