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MESSAGE TO THE BRETHREN GATHERED AT ROTHERHAM,

April 16th, 1897
DEAR BRETHREN,

Though I am not able to be among you, my heart is fully with you and I have you in remembrance before the Lord, I am thankful to say, daily. I may just briefly express my great desire for you. We are delivered out of Egypt - the world - what man has made of the earth, to be in God’s habitation. “Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation”, Exodus 15: 13. Now if this is definitely before you, namely, that you have been delivered from this present evil age for heaven, you must take the only true road to reach it. The divine path to heaven is through the wilderness; this world is a wilderness, and there is nothing for you here but Marah, that is, death on man’s side; and the more you have fellowship with Christ in His death, the easier the path becomes to you, because you get the true character of this world, and the more truly you do, the more you seek Him where He is. “That ... we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

^[p. 429] whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec”, Hebrews 6: 18 - 20. Now, if you are diverted from His place, where Jesus is entered as Forerunner, by anything here, even the mercies of His hand, you have lost the anchor of your soul, and you drift into the world; but if you cleave to Him and to His place, you learn, as in Colossians, that heaven is the hope of the gospel, see Colossians 1: 5, “For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven”; also verse 23, “If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel”. You will find that it is God’s grace to you that you should be morally dead to everything here, though fulfilling all the ordinances of God, while you are living in the present enjoyment of the things above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. No one can conceive a more wonderful position as set here on earth for Christ. The Lord incline each of our hearts more and more to follow Him there for present enjoyment. The Lord bless you much in your meeting. My love to each.

Yours very affectionately in Christ.

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