APRIL 5TH, 1936
APRIL 5TH, 1936
BELOVED BROTHER, — I thank you for your letter. I am much interested in your approaching marriage, if God will, and have had the privilege of praying for you both in relation to it. It would have been a pleasure to me to be present, and it was with a feeling of disappointment that I found that your marriage was arranged for the same day as the one at — . But we shall have you specially in mind, and the two occasions will give more opportunity for prayer than one, and of this I trust that both couples may get the full gain. I am sure you will have the hearty fellowship of your local brethren and of all who know and love you. The setting up of another “goodly” tent is an event in which the lovers of God have much interest, for assembly testimony and welfare largely depend on prayerful and spiritual conditions being maintained in the households of the saints. I see more and more clearly that the strength of things lies there, and also that vigorous personal piety is needed on the part of both husband and wife to secure the unhindered liberty of their prayers. I am thankful to be assured that you have both known something of the blessedness of having to do with God in your separate pathways, and I pray that as united in marriage you may have an enlarged and deepened experience of it. The exercises that are inseparable from any new step in life — and particularly one so important as marriage — are intended to give a fresh impetus to everything that is spiritual in our souls. Our God and Father does not overlook the comfort that He ministers through natural affections. It has its own sweetness and value as sanctified by His fear, and the knowledge of His love. And I trust that even on the natural side you will have together an abundant experience of His loving-kindness, reaching down into the smallest detail of your lives. But I trust you will not be detained, even by the mercies granted you, from rising up as on eagles’ wings to that pure region where all is unsullied light, and where the inheritance that fades not away can be enjoyed.
With my warm love in the Lord to Miss — and yourself,
Yours affectionately in Him,
April 5th, 1936.