NOVEMBER 10TH, 1941

NOVEMBER 10TH, 1941

MY DEAR SISTER IN THE LORD, — I am pleased to have your letter and to know that the little card was a comfort to your dear husband. I have prayed much for him, and for you,

^[p. 302] since I heard of his weakness and suffering, and I trust you will both be prepared vessels to receive just what the Lord will minister to you of Himself at such a time. I have a thankful remembrance of my personal contact with your dear husband, though it was only on rare occasions that I had this privilege. And I am thankful now to think of him in sympathetic affection.

I desire for him, what I earnestly seek for myself, that inward strengthening by the Father’s Spirit, that will secure a dwelling-place for Christ in the heart through faith. It is marvellous that human hearts can be made capable of affording Him a fixed and “settled” place, even more acceptable to Him than the “house of habitation” which Solomon built, 2 Chronicles 6: 2. That the One who dwells in the Father’s heart should dwell in ours is almost too much to take in, and yet the riches of the Father’s glory are freely expended to bring it about. And it is done for those, who on the side of their own personal exercises, are consciously “less than the least of all saints”. It is not easy for us to put together extreme conscious smallness and the most transcendent spiritual enlargement. Yet the two go together and they both glorify God.

Yours affectionately in Him,

November 10th, 1941.