AUGUST 6TH, 1935

AUGUST 6TH, 1935

BELOVED BROTHER, — I value your counting on my interest and sympathy and prayers in your deep sorrow. I feel for you very much, and can enter in some measure into what it means to you to have such an unexpected grief. It is my comfort to know that the whole matter has been considered and weighed by divine wisdom and love, and that it enters into the design which is being worked out in the ways of God with you and your dear daughter. And everything in those ways which causes grief — and many things do — has its own spiritual compensation. My prayer is that you may be made conscious of this, and that your heart may not be only sustained and comforted, but enlarged in confidence in the faithful love of God. The blow which has fallen on your affections is a severe one, and therefore it furnishes a peculiar opportunity ^[p. 241] for divine teaching, and for a manifestation of the Lord, who will love to come near to you and give you a precious sense of His care and sympathy, and that there is that in Him for your heart which is truly greater than the sorrow.

I have long thought of you in affectionate interest, and your present grief is a special opportunity to pray for you and — . I am thankful there is a work of God in her soul, and trust the full joy of grace will soon be her happy portion.

With much love in the Lord and deep sympathy,

Yours very affectionately in Him,

August 6th, 1935.