BROOKLYN, N.Y., MARCH 14TH, 1940
BROOKLYN, N.Y., MARCH 14TH, 1940
Mr. P. Lyon.
Beloved Brother, — Your letter of the 14th ult. is just to hand and I also received one written earlier. I am glad to have all your ‘items’, which are interesting as always.
My wife and I value your sympathy as to our sorrow here. God has come in for us. ——— is restored to fellowship but ——— [p. 173] and ——— are still under discipline. It is a very keen sorrow in a family sense, but we have been able to draw upon the supply ever available and we are conscious of steady gain. The brethren have been touchingly kind and liberty in the meetings remarkable.
I am glad to have the information as to the coming Easter meetings in Australia. I have also word today as to the N.Z. Easter meetings.
I hope to be at London, Ontario, for the general meetings. Mr. Ide is to be at Calgary and Stanley McCallum at Knoxville. The Lord is using our dear brother. I am struck with the energy in this country and Canada evidenced in the many special meetings held. In this district there is one almost every week. I was at Somerville, Massachusetts, last weekend — very happy. I hope to be at Winnipeg on May 24th, and later Rochester. In fact I am booked for Detroit and Council Bluffs! A.E.M. is expected in this country soon and I am hoping he will take on some of the special meetings, but he wrote to someone to say he could not take on extended ones. A letter today from A.M.H. says Mrs. Myles is quite poorly and may undergo an operation, and thus the coming of the M.s to this country is so far indefinite.
A visit by us to Great Britain is uncertain, but I am looking much to the Lord as to it, for I should like to share a little the pressure the dear brethren are undergoing. A recent letter from Mr. Gardiner says the brethren have meetings in Park Street still in mind, but I suggested — in view of the fact that I could not speak definitely — that afternoon and evening occasions would serve well under the Lord’s good hand.
I note that Mr. Parrot had completed the translation of the ‘Assembly’. I heard lately that the notes of meetings in France in August might be published in England — on account of certain high costs in France. I mailed the last of these notes to Mr. Malecot yesterday — 15 sets in all. I believe they will be useful. The Sydney notes are in Stow Hill, but the first reading on ‘Spirituality’ — that on Exodus 17-has not arrived yet, I fear it is lost. Mr. Willy said he would look into the matter.
You will grieve to know that Dr. Borden was killed by a motor. They were at Miami when this happened. Mrs. B. is evidently helped of the Lord in her great sorrow. You will know perhaps before this reaches you that Mr. A. F. Moore [p. 174] Is with the Lord. His mind had given way a good while before the Lord took our brother.
Mr. Hardwick ministered here with striking freshness. He is now in the Argentine. Miss Hardwick is here, also Mrs. Fennell. They sail, God willing, early in April.
My wife unites in love in Christ.
Affectionately in Him,
James Taylor.