TEDDINGTON, MIDDLESEX, JULY 14TH, 1939

TEDDINGTON, MIDDLESEX, JULY 14TH, 1939

Mr. Alfred J. Gardiner.

Beloved Brother, — I am very grateful to the dear brethren in London for this renewed ‘thinking of me’ in a most practical way — expressed in their gift, through you, of £25. Please convey my hearty thanks to them. Your bounty I shall endeavour to use in the sense of circulation as opportunity offers among the Lord’s people.

The items as to London which you sent were very interesting ^[p. 155] to us, especially as to the sister in Kingsland. May the Lord bring in her husband and children!

We returned here from the North yesterday. We were much cheered in Newcastle and district — a field in which you have worked. There is steady growth in the city itself, and there is another addition in prospect, as Mr. J. Pringle’s eldest daughter, Dorothy, made a good confession on Monday night. We learned since leaving that one of Mr. W. Knight’s daughters also made request this week to break bread as the brethren are free. This, I believe, will promote better feelings between the two meetings.

The season at Consett on Saturday was very happy. A large — comparatively — number came together. We stayed a night with the Dents, which afforded opportunity of getting near our brethren there. They all came from the Open Brethren meeting there, causing resentment by the latter.

At Hull we got on well, too, thank God. A representative number of the meetings of a fairly wide radius came together.

Banbury was a happy time — both in the ‘tent’ at Mr. Railton’s and in the good hall secured for the special meetings. Mr. Coates was with us.

A good report of meetings with W.J.H. in Montreal came this week. There are also cheerful reports of P.L., also from himself. He is now on the West Coast.

My wife unites in warm love in Christ to Mrs. Gardiner, your daughters and you, also to all the brethren.

Affectionately in Him,
James Taylor.