DECEMBER 12TH, 1941

DECEMBER 12TH, 1941

^[p. 303] BELOVED BROTHER, — ... Such communications tend to bind us together as having a common interest, and they also encourage, as evidence that there is a great volume of support behind even the smallest bit of the levitical service. None who serve can say that they are left to serve alone! So I thank God for the fellowship of the dear saints at —, and I desire that you will convey to them my warm love in the Lord and my thanks for their gift, and for the loving interest of which it is the token. I desire that, through the grace of the Lord, and the prayers of His people, I may be enabled to serve Him, according to my allotted measure, so long as He may be pleased to vouchsafe the privilege.

The brethren here have been mercifully preserved from the severe testings that have come upon so many, particularly in the larger cities. But I trust this has not made us less sympathetic with our suffering brethren.

Your reference to the prophets is, I am sure, timely. They remind us that the remnant must expect to have part in the suffering which accompanies God’s governmental ways, but for them it is a purifying process, refining what is precious in the sight of God, and bringing it out in its own true character.

I think we can see something of this going on. And it would appear, from the extension of the world-conflict, that none are to be left out of the exercise or out of the enrichment that will accompany it. In a certain sense, we have had the enrichment beforehand in an abundant spiritual ministry, but its value will be better known through the experiences we pass through.

Yours affectionately in the Lord,

December 12th, 1941.