DECEMBER 12TH, 1939

DECEMBER 12TH, 1939

MY DEAR —, — ... We are reading Ecclesiastes in our morning readings, and it has made me very thankful to be living in a time when the Incarnation, and the accomplishment of redemption, and the exaltation of Christ, and the gift of the Spirit, have brought such an immensity into view that is not vanity. A birthday must be a sorrowful affair to those who find that each succeeding year brings only fresh experience of vanity! But if the years are adding some of that glory which is going to fill the heavenly city they are worth marking off with letters of gold! It is certain that we brought nothing into the world but necessities which could only be met by divine goodness and love. But, thank God, we may carry out with us treasures which are beyond the knowledge of angels, save as they learn them in us. It is wonderful, indeed, that God is doing so much amidst conditions of sin that He could not have done in an innocent world. Every discipline that helps to subdue our wills makes more room for the will of God, and, as we sing sometimes, “All that will is love” ...

Yours affectionately in Him,