DECEMBER 10TH, 1925

DECEMBER 10TH, 1925

MY DEAR BROTHER, — ... The Lord graciously gives many encouragements in His blessed service, and not the least is the cordial support and interest of His beloved saints. Please accept my hearty thanks, and be assured that I value highly the love that is thus expressed. It encourages me to count also on the prayers of the dear brethren, and I do so as feeling how much I need them.

I have been confined to the house with a cold ever since the Monday we returned from Brixham, but was able to be out last night. We read Mark 16, as showing how the service of the Lord goes on in the wide expansion which resurrection gave — the whole creation coming into view. And the Spirit seems to show how the power all centred in the Lord. On the side of the disciples — both women and men — there was much evidence of weakness. But the young man at the right of the sepulchre seems to indicate the power in which the testimony would be maintained. The Lord’s right hand had indeed been glorious in power; it had dashed in pieces the enemy; and the saints were to be marked by the energy of that power. Service is now carried on in “the firmament of His power”, and is apart from all strength of flesh or nature. We do not learn this in a practical way without such exercises as marked the women, for it is a strange and new power to us....

With very much love in the Lord to dear Mrs. — and yourself and to all the dear saints whose love I have proved so truly.

Yours very affectionately in Him,

December 10th, 1925.