BROOKLYN, N.Y., MARCH 3RD, 1942
BROOKLYN, N.Y., MARCH 3RD, 1942
Mr. E. Blampied.
Beloved Brother, — Your letter of August 16th has been a good while in my possession, but I am sure you will know how difficult it is to keep up with correspondence, and yet correspondence is the very essence, in a way, of our relations with one another, so we must attend to it. My consumption of time added to meetings, is in revision of papers for publication.
We are thinking of you all in New Zealand, dear brother, peculiarly at the present time, knowing how exercised you are, because of the turn the war has taken. But God has to do with these turns in this terrible matter. The diversion to Russia last summer was His doing and our dear brethren in Great Britain have had a wonderful respite on account of it. Thus we can well shelter under the assurance that nothing happens without our God, a sparrow not falling without Him. It may be that Japan will attack — perhaps to her loss — the West, to the relief of Australasia. Brethren in Great Britain link us in America with you in Australia and New Zealand, assuring us of their sympathy and prayers — grateful for our mutual care for them; we, on our part, think of you as in special danger. But, as I said, there may be a diversion; even if not, God has placed a great distance between you and the base of the danger. How often we have thanked God for the twenty-mile-wide English Channel! Thus He has to say to everything.
A recent letter from P.L. speaks very cheerfully as to the work of God in New Zealand and the news is good to us all here. He speaks of two more — possibly — meetings in Auckland. Also other new meetings, one in Cambridge. How fruitful the field out there is! Surely God’s eye is especially upon it.
The work of God is prospering in America, although not in the same fruitful way as in New Zealand and Australia; but there is steady interest and a great increase of special meetings — [p. 258] nineteen annually of three-day occasions and many more weekend ones.
My wife unites in love in Christ to Mrs. Blampied and you and all yours, also to the brethren.
Affectionately in Him,
James Taylor.
PS — We are thinking of the dear young brothers taken for government service. Ours here are also affected.