NEW BIRTH. THE VINE, ETC. NO. 4

NEW BIRTH. THE VINE, ETC. NO. 4

I quite agree with your comment. It is to me an evidence of uncertainty when J.N.D.’s writings are quoted to establish a doctrine which, if known spiritually, would have been easily proved from scripture. I have been sent a tract by J.N.D. on New Birth underlined here and there to prove that life was given at new birth. Now it is plain to me that J.N.D. is insisting that everything must be of God, and that the paper as a whole is against the notion that life (which is out of death) could be given until Christ had died. I have no doubt that J.N.D.’s writings would be read in quite a different light if the divine meaning of the word had been apprehended as he apprehended it. But truth can be laid hold of intellectually by reading his writings, and this, alas! has done much damage to many.

I feel it is a mark of the Lord’s favour to His people at ———— that He has led you to reside among them, and though the scope of your service greatly increases your responsibility, yet if it draws you more to the Lord in private, you will not only be enriched yourself, but will greatly help others....

I find a great lack in souls is that so few really understand what it is to be crucified with Christ; and I can see what suffering and failure might have been saved in the early part of my course if I had fully accepted that truth.

The Lord bless you much. I think I may say that I have you daily in remembrance before Him.