BROOKLYN, N.Y., NOVEMBER 15TH, 1930

BROOKLYN, N.Y., NOVEMBER 15TH, 1930

Mr. P. Lyon.

Beloved Brother, — I have to thank you for two letters, also for a cable from France. We are grieved to know of the dear Blanc’s loss, and I trust God will comfort and bless the dear couple in their affliction. I shall send them a line, please God.

I am assured there was help from the Lord at Valence and St. Etienne. We remembered you all as together.

The removal of beloved Miss Newlands would touch you as it does us. She was a remarkable vessel indeed and, for me, London will not seem itself without her. The Lord, I am sure,

^[p. 286] would have us feel the loss; as we do He will come in for us.

Mr. Jerrard too — of sterling value in the testimony, particularly of late years.

You will be back from the Continent by the time this reaches you. I trust you find your sister and Lois well and the latter showing signs of growth. I trust also your dear brother and sister at Harrow and all theirs are well and helped of God in every way.

I returned from Toronto on Wednesday, having attended special meetings there over the week-end. The Lord helped us as together. There were less visitors than last year, particularly from the States, but the average attendance I thought about as large. There is a nice work of God in Toronto and Ontario generally. I returned via Rochester and had a meeting there in which there was help.

I went to Canada by Boston, particularly to see Allen and Georgina and their two dear children, who are very ill with infantile paralysis. Their lives are spared mercifully of God, but their recovery is likely to be slow and, of course, the danger of after effects is serious. But all is in God’s hands. No doubt a rich education is in view for the dear parents and the children too. Alas! we are slow to take advantage of such opportunities. I believe Allen is being helped through this and the sorrow of last year — the severe illness of Georgina.

I hear of slight improvement in L. Emtage. I am thankful to have good news, through Mr. Hayne, of Jamaica. But it appears the great sorrow in Kingston and Half-Way Tree remains.

Meetings are purposed in the West as usual, and I trust God will help the brethren — Chicago, Council Bluffs, Los Angeles, etc.; also in Plainfield and Knoxville. I feel unable to take the trip to the Coast this year. The cold of the Middle West affects me seriously.

With love in Christ to you all in which my wife joins, I am, affectionately in Him,

James Taylor.

PS — Many thanks for Romaine’s book sent from library — evidently by you. The lecture on ‘The Self Existence of Jesus’ is very remarkable. I have copied part and sent book back. — J.T.

I am hoping to hear of Dulwich and Eltham ‘coming in’.