DECEMBER 7TH, 1937

DECEMBER 7TH, 1937

MY DEAR —, — I think I can say that I value increasingly the prayerful interest of my friends, and your kind letter greeting me on my 75th birthday is a cheer and refreshment for which I thank you heartily. One looks back gratefully to every step in the pathway which has been illuminated by divine favour under the shining of God’s countenance. And one looks back gratefully, too, to the cloudy days when humbling exercises have had to be gone through. They have, perhaps, been most productive, for without clouds there would be no blessed fertilising showers. So one thanks God and takes courage....

Yours very affectionately in the Lord,

December 7th, 1937.