FEBRUARY 5TH, 1932
FEBRUARY 5TH, 1932
Mr. F. Ide.
Beloved Brother, — I had been looking for a line from you, not having had one since we left England, and so I was very glad to receive yours of the 5th.
We are sorry that Betty had been so ill, but thankful she has recovered. Evidently Mrs. Ide and you have kept well through the winter which you will regard as a signal mercy from God for at our age the cold and damp weather tells. My wife and I have had a good winter, thank God. My wife’s headaches have not disappeared but have lessened considerably. My health has not been as good for years as it has been lately and you may be sure we are grateful to our God for this. He evidently answered the prayers of His people for me in blessing the operation.
The work of God is very cheering in these parts. The regular and special meetings have been remarkably well sustained; besides, there is a good enquiry from those ‘outside;’ two brothers who have been occupied in ‘service’ among the sects are, with their families, moving in the truth. One of them was a Lutheran minister, having had charge of two congregations. His letter of resignation is excellent. We are cast on the Lord for them, that the enemy may not darken and divert them from ‘the way’.
The good news of the Stow Hill Depot had reached us from time to time, and is now confirmed by you. Our prayers go up constantly for it and all engaged in the service there. Evidently the Lord is blessing you in it. Of course, the holiday season would afford more demand and hence your good [p. 349] receipts; but the hymn book sales will help now; afterwards there will probably be a lull. But the support the Lord has granted and the general interest in this service are most gratifying and should urge us on to greater activity. The night comes when no one can work!
The Depot here was puzzled this week by the cable from Stow Hill saying that the booklet on ‘Food’ published by it (the N.Y. Depot) would need to be sold at five pence in London. The cost mentioned was ‘about’ two and a half cents — a little over one and a half pence, plus 15 percent carriage, etc. As the Consul says there is no customs duty in England on such literature, it was thought right to forward 2,000 at one and a half pence, N.Y. paying all charges. A copy of this publication has just come and I quite believe it can be circulated at two pence. The brethren here wished to have these Notes published and I am quite in sympathy with them. The Notes (Readings in Judges) of the meetings at Rochester last May are ready for the press. We shall need to consider whether they should be published here or in England — of course the brother in the N.Y. Depot (Mr. B. Midgeley) will be writing Mr. J——— as to above.
Our present thought is to sail on the Cameronia on March 12th. We may land in Belfast!
My wife unites in love in Christ to Mrs. Ide and you all.
Affectionately in Him,
James Taylor.