BROOKLYN, N.Y., OCTOBER 30TH, 1930
BROOKLYN, N.Y., OCTOBER 30TH, 1930
My Dear Mrs. Morford, — Thanks for all notes sent — all you mentioned have come, including Peterborough. I am now working on them, but they shall not be finished before December 1st, as I am subject to many calls; but if this volume is published about February it will meet a need I trust.
Many thanks again for your kind co-operation in this service, in which I am sure you have the sense of the Lord’s approval, as I have. Blessed indeed are all who in any degree help to minister a portion of meat to the “household”. I am encouraged to believe that the Lord will take advantage of this movement to make printed ministry less expensive to cause it to become more widespread, extending to many of Zion’s poor to whom it would otherwise never come.
It is of great importance that accuracy should mark what is [p. 285] published in print, and I have been greatly aided in this respect by Miss Newlands and now through you; for however careful one may be he is apt to miss a mistake at times while a second eye would catch it.
In many publications during recent years I have noticed errors — not only clerical or ‘slips’, but also developed thoughts — that could not have appeared had the articles been looked over by competent persons other than the writers.
I am so thankful for your report of dear Miss Newland’s health. It is good of the Lord to spare her to us, but I fear she must suffer much. I have very great sympathy with her, especially as I am so poor in enduring illness myself.
I trust you keep well and that you find help from the Lord in every way, proving the widow’s portion. The Lord encourages us to take up special promises.
My wife’s health has been poor lately and we are in great distress by the illness of two of our dear grandchildren with the dreadful disease, ‘infantile paralysis’. They are very bad cases too — the only children of our oldest son Allen. They live in Portland, Maine, one of the children being in a hospital there and the other in Boston. Perhaps you will mention this to Miss Newlands as you have opportunity, as I am unable to write now. The children are recovering, thank God. Their mother is poorly too, so Allen has a heavy load, but he seems to obtain great help from God in it.
Our united love to you and to all your household.
Affectionately in Christ,
James Taylor.