ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, GREENWICH, JANUARY 22ND, 1895
ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, GREENWICH, JANUARY 22ND, 1895
To Mr. T. H. Reynolds.
Dearest Reynolds, — I am very glad that you have written as you have to Mr. Wood. I have no doubt whatever that he is an upright man, but we cannot be trustees merely in name. I shall be glad when an [p. 103] opportunity offers of comparing the estate as it now stands with that on which duty was paid. I am much obliged for the enclosure to your letter. It is certainly a revelation. The Lord’s table is put in the place of the Lord’s supper and the ‘assembly’ appears to be held together by an ordinance. It is a sort of mixture of ecclesiasticism and sacramentalism, the moral element seems to me to be wholly wanting. I can hardly imagine that we are called upon to sanction such ideas. I send you Oliphant’s letter to me and my reply (I hope you may be able to make it out). I had a second letter as long as the first to which I have not replied, for it seems to me without point. I do not think that Oliphant has any just idea of either house or body. In his second letter he is driven to the idea that Scripture gives two aspects of the body. I have heard of two aspects of the church, but this is certainly a new idea, where got from in Scripture I know not. I am very sorry for the position he has taken up. J.B.S. seemed quite out with him. We had a pretty good reading last Tuesday. J.B.S. seemed fresh and clear in mind. If D. O’Kolski should come to the meeting at Vohwinkel, he will be a help for he knows English perfectly. I knew him in England. Hope you are well and Mrs. Reynolds and her sisters.
With love in the Lord,
Affectionately yours,
F. E. Raven.