SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1940

SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1940

Beloved Brother, — I am sending today the remaining New Zealand Notes — six sets. On August 14th I sent eight sets. All were sent first class mail, registered. I hope the first lot are in your hands.

There is a demand for fresh printed ministry, at least in this country and Canada, and I hope these New Zealand papers will be acceptable. I am thinking of Notes of meetings in ^[p. 196] Winnipeg; London, Ontario; Rochester and Detroit, and will report later as to any selection which may be made.

I need not say that you all in London and district are on our hearts and in our prayers day and night. The cables received last week were most cheering to us all and we thank God for them. After our reading here last night a cable of sympathy was sent from all. The Lord’s presence was distinctly felt and the reading was on 1 Chronicles 9 — Mr. Hardwick was with us. We are all assured that the brethren in London district and in Great Britain generally will be great gainers as they go through this ordeal, and through them the whole assembly will be more fitted for Christ and for our heavenly calling. You are all in this sense suffering for us all; some of us, at least, are suffering with you. But the great fact is that God is with His people, and the perfecting of the saints is in mind, and endurance is the quality needed. In it we shall see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of compassion and pitiful.

I am wondering if the Depot staff is again at Cranleigh. What is happening shows the great wisdom and forethought of the government in the precautions of last year. God was over all this.

I am assured that God is helping Great Britain, and I am continually looking to Him as to this. The official judgment in Washington is that Britain’s position is greatly improved during the last six weeks. This is heartening, but of course our confidence is in God and not in human judgment.

My wife unites in love in Christ to you and your family.

Affectionately in Him,
James Taylor.