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ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, GREENWICH, NOVEMBER 8TH, 1894

Dearest Reynolds, — I have sent both papers on to Mr. Wood, filling up the small one with the names of the stocks which he had proposed. I was glad of your remarks as to Hull and am pretty much of your mind — I think that Young and those with him showed how little the breach of fellowship weighed on them by immediately breaking bread. I blame them for this more than for separating, for I can conceive it possible that the state of things in a meeting may come to be intolerable, and that, without those who separate being able to make out a convincing case to others outside the place. It was so at Barking. But I am dead against the sort of ecclesiastical pretension that has marked G.H. meeting. In continuing to break bread they went on as though the fellowship at Hull had not been broken and then declare Young and those with him disqualified in a lump for the Lord’s table because they refused to own them as Christ’s assembly. Where shall we get to if this is approved? As I am not going to Scarborough, and Oliphant is, I should like you to see a letter or two which have ^[p. 93] passed between us so I send them. It is too monstrous to think that we are to be wrecked over a miserable local trouble.

With love in the Lord,
Your affectionate brother,
F. E. Raven.

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