DECEMBER 8TH, 1939

DECEMBER 8TH, 1939

DEAR MRS. —, — ... Each birthday reminds us how the period of our stay here is getting shorter, even in the natural course of events. And therefore it should stimulate us to use it as fully as possible to acquire what may be eternal wealth to us. Solomon learned the vanity that is in human life, but infinite mercy has brought something into our lives which is not vanity. So that we look forward to going out of the world far richer than when we came into it. God’s elect have come into the world that they might acquire the knowledge of God, and go out of it freighted with grace and glory. We find the heavenly city has the glory of God, and no doubt this is the shining out in display of what has been acquired here. So we are far better off than those who have to say that “all is vanity and pursuit of the wind”. God, as revealed in His beloved Son, is the treasure in the earthen vessel now, and as having this treasure we are suitable to the eternal scene of divine glory. What manner of persons ought we to be!

With much love in the Lord to yourself and to your dear husband,

Yours affectionately in Him,