OCTOBER 15TH, 1936

OCTOBER 15TH, 1936

MY DEAR SISTER IN THE LORD, — I am glad you wrote to me, because it gives me opportunity to say how much I feel for you in the great sorrow and disappointment you have experienced ... The Lord will support you, I am sure, in this trial, and will use it to bring about increased knowledge of Himself. Let your heart turn unreservedly to Himself in full confidence that He can make up for the sorrow in some way known to His love ... I am most thankful that by the grace of God you are able to own the Lord’s hand as being over this matter. I am satisfied that, it is so, and that you will ultimately be able to thank God for this breach which is now so painful and so difficult to understand. The Lord has taken account of every desire that has ever been in your heart after Himself, and He may be in this painful way preserving you from a path in which there may have been spiritual dangers unperceived by us but known to Him. So take courage, my dear sister, and set your heart more stedfastly than ever to seek the Lord and to follow Him. For every natural loss, accepted in faith, there is an abundant spiritual compensation. May you prove this in a peculiarly blessed way for your joy and God’s glory and praise! ...

Yours affectionately in Him,

October 15th, 1936.