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ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, GREENWICH, APRIL 4TH, 1896

Mr. H. Wilson.

My Dear Brother, — I was away from home at Birmingham when your letter came, which will account for the delay in answering it. In reference to the point on which you write, I am inclined to think that though a meeting would undoubtedly be badly affected by the existence in its midst of sin that had not been brought to light it could hardly be on the responsibility of the assembly. If the saints were dependent, I imagine that God would bring it to light and then the assembly must judge it or the Lord would not go on with the assembly.

^[p. 115] This was the case with Israel. They were allowed to feel their weakness but the Lord did not judge them if they judged the evil. I do not understand that in ordinary cases, confession on the part of the assembly is called for, but some case of evil existing may be the means of bringing home to the assembly some state of things which has been allowed and which calls for humbling and confession before God — but as to all these things, it is impossible to be guided by rule — souls must feel what is true and right before God.

With love in the Lord,
Yours affectionately in Him,
F. E. Raven.

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