DECEMBER 8TH, 1932

DECEMBER 8TH, 1932

MY BELOVED SISTERS IN THE LORD, — I much value your affectionate good wishes and birthday salutations, knowing well that they are accompanied by your prayers, to which I attach priceless worth. Very many thanks also for the very kind gifts in which your love has found practical expression. I shall put them into use with comfort to my body, and as the fruit of affections which are a cordial to my heart.

I am thankful to be here for a little season with the dear brethren. They have given me a very hearty welcome amongst them, and the meetings have been refreshing. I also get to the weekly readings at —, when there is very distinct interest in reading Ephesians, and many come in from the surrounding district. Last night we had the precious portion in chapter 4 about learning the Christ, hearing Him, being instructed in Him, and finding the truth in Jesus, all this producing its inevitable result in the saints having put off the old man, etc. Tonight we shall be, if God will, contemplating that choice verse — 1 Peter 1: 8.

^[p. 211] There is to be a fellowship meeting at —, if the Lord will, next Thursday. I know you will think of us with earnest seeking that the household may be fed. I am trying to get on with Numbers, but a fair amount of correspondence rather checks progress. It seems strange to me to feel that I have passed the allotted term of human life. One earnestly desires that any little extension permitted may be filled with service and love and praise surpassing in spiritual value anything that has gone before in one’s feeble history. With warmest love to you all,

Yours very affectionately,

December 8th, 1932.