BROOKLYN, N.Y., JANUARY 18TH, 1925
BROOKLYN, N.Y., JANUARY 18TH, 1925
Mr. E. McCrea.
My Dear Brother, — Your letter of December 16th came yesterday and I thank you for your kind interest in my coming visit to New Zealand, also for your invitation to my wife and myself to your house. We will have pleasure in sharing your hospitality if the Lord permit. Of course, we also appreciate Mr. C. Smith’s desire to have us with him and his wife, but we note that this will not be convenient for them. Perhaps you will mention to Mr. Smith that I wrote him about three months ago, but that not having heard from him I fear my letter miscarried.
As regards the meetings at Easter, I cabled you tonight, ‘Easter acceptable’, which I have no doubt will be intelligible to you, that is, that I hope to be free to be with you during the special meetings at Easter.
[p. 206] We are booked to sail by the S.S. McKura from Vancouver on March 11th, arriving at Auckland about March 30th. Mr. Bond of Auckland sent me an itinerary according to which I am to leave Wellington for Sydney on April 17th; this, I suppose, means an equitable division of the available time between the two countries.
Our first thought was to return via Vancouver, but as Dr. Elliott urgently wished us to call at South Africa I decided to go that way. This will enable me to see the brethren in western Australia, which I much wished to do. On this account, I shall probably have a little more time in Australia than I had hoped for.
The contemplation of seeing my dear brethren in the Antipodes is a very real pleasure, and I trust we shall be much blessed mutually as seeing each other.
We had a good season at Indianapolis this year. We looked at the ‘Power of God’ in the readings.
My wife joins in love in Christ to Mrs. McCrea and yourself and your family, also to the brethren.
Affectionately in Him,
James Taylor.