BROOKLYN, N.Y., MARCH 1ST, 1930

BROOKLYN, N.Y., MARCH 1ST, 1930

Mr. Charles Hammond.

My Dear Brother, — I thank you for your letter. I had heard of the occurrences and conditions you mention and they have been and are a matter of concern and prayer. As the dear brethren in the London area take them to heart, as they do, I am sure, the Lord will come in for them. The enemy, being foiled in his efforts for widespread division, keeps up these isolated attacks. They are not limited to your district, being, alas, more or less general. But the hand of the Lord is definitely with His people — the thousands of those that love Him and keep His commandments — and after they are made to suffer “a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground” (1 Peter 5: 10). When we definitely “cry unto the Lord” relief comes.

— — — , of course, is unbalanced mentally, but an apt instrument ^[p. 279] for such an attack; but the Lord will bring the scourge to an end as the dear brethren are cast upon Him. Forest Hill is really serious as now become a crystallised condition, marked by a certain independency and disregard of the unity of the Spirit. Of course we can be thankful that these features are not more pronounced; but they are there, and would, I fear, become more active if opportunity offers. Thus the humbling fact that an armed state has to be maintained in regard of what is within the fellowship. But we may count on the hand of the Lord being against the evil; it says, “He was casting out a demon”. As was said to Asa, He will be with His people as they are with Him.

We find all these things in America, too — the joys and the sorrows, only in a smaller way.

With love in Christ, I am,

Affectionately in Him,

James Taylor.