BROOKLYN, N.Y., NOVEMBER 11TH, 1935

BROOKLYN, N.Y., NOVEMBER 11TH, 1935

Mr. Charles Hammond.

Beloved Brother, — I thank you for your letter of the 14th ultimo, and I am very interested in all you write as to the different matters mentioned.

The line you are following will surely prove profitable to you as it contemplates the deepest and most precious relationships of which we are part.

You will need to guard a little as to making sonship in any sense characteristically less than manhood. We have to learn as to this as in all else from what is stated as to Christ and His being acknowledged Son from heaven at the full age of manhood, as we see in Luke. God’s purpose is that manhood should appear before Him in this blessed relationship. Ephesians 4: 13, 14, maintains this balance. The knowledge of the Son of God underlies the full-grown man, and all this would enter into our position as representing the likeness of God.

I note all your remarks as to current events in Great Britain, and what you say of Nee’s letter to Mr. Barlow confirms what I have heard from others. It is quite apparent that we have had to do all along with a man who has had a dark part, but the Lord has kept His hand over us, and whilst there has been ^[p. 16] an occasion for humiliation, which has been owned, He has otherwise enlarged us through the exercise.

With love in Christ to you and your house, and to all the brethren, I am,

Affectionately yours in Him,
James Taylor.