MARCH 15TH, 1896

MARCH 15TH, 1896

As regards last Thursday (Greenwich reading in Philippians 1 to end), I am glad that you said what you did. It leads me to reconsider the point, and certainly one must attach importance to what the apostle says in 2 Corinthians 5, “willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord”. I daresay I spoke too strongly, but what was in my mind was that while here we are in the activities of Christ’s body, which is hardly the case when we are with the Lord. Anyway, if we are taken before the Lord comes it is a comfort to know that we enter on what the apostle desired, and are with the Lord instead of being absent from Him. But then we shall be out of the path of testimony and responsibility. I am rather thankful to have taken up the Psalms at Hazelville. I think that I see my way more through the first part of them.