JUNE 10TH, 1928

JUNE 10TH, 1928

BELOVED BROTHER, — ... We began James on Wednesday as the contrast to Joshua. There the tribes were entering on the inheritance under the leadership of Joshua — answering to apostolic days, but now they are in the dispersion — answering to our own times. It is now a question of bearing trial and having faith in God so as to receive the crown of life through loving Him. Publicly we are “in the dispersion”, but all that is vital, and that faith can cherish, remains, and it is still for those who love God a time of “first-fruits”. I felt it was good to have this side of things before us, particularly the testing character of God’s ways with us, and the development of spiritual endurance under those ways. The unchangeableness of God as the Giver, even if governmentally we are “in the dispersion”. All the tribes are there to be accounted of just as surely as they will be in the world to come! So that we move in wisdom and love in the full scope of the divine thoughts even though outwardly it is a reproachful time.

Much love to you both.

Yours very affectionately in the Lord,

June 10th, 1928.