SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1923

SEPTEMBER 22ND, 1923

MY DEAR BROTHER, — Many thanks for yours of the 15th inst. This is just a line to let you know that we enjoyed our week’s visit to Weymouth. We were able to call and see most of the saints, and we had three readings in the Room. On Saturday we looked at our place as sons and as little children. On Tuesday we had — because they expressed a local exercise as to it — the subject of fellowship. Then on Wednesday we considered a little the Lord’s supper.

I think all came out to the meetings who could get, and there seemed a measure of interest ...

Then on Thursday we moved on to Yeovil, and had a reading there. We looked at the fellowship (1 Corinthians 10) as that which is provided for man for complete deliverance from the idolatrous world, and then at the Supper (1 Corinthians 11) as securing an affectionate place for the Lord here when His headship can be realised. I was feeling very tired and not up to much, but I trust there was help.

I thought Leviticus 9 answered more to the blessing side of the fellowship as seen in 1 Corinthians 10. I think the sanctuary sometimes means the holiest, and sometimes the whole tabernacle, but in the latter case it is the whole viewed as taking character from the holiest where God dwells. The failure of the sons of Aaron was really the breakdown of the whole system, and hence Leviticus 16 takes up — or rather suggests — what is known in full result in Christianity and Israel’s true blessing in another day also.

Much love to you both,

Yours affectionately in the Lord,

September 22nd, 1923.