MAY 5TH, 1942

MAY 5TH, 1942

BELOVED SISTER IN THE LORD, — You and your household have been very much in our hearts and prayers during the sad days and nights which has passed through. We are deeply thankful to know that you are all preserved from injury, and that, so far as we have heard, none of the dear saints known to us have suffered personally, though some have had their houses damaged.

It is not God’s will that His testimony should be taken away until His appointed time comes, and His beloved saints are the vessel which carries His testimony. So we are retained here, in spite of man’s violence, to be more prayerful and devoted than ever as we await the return of our Lord. How blessed to have a portion in Christ which no power of evil can touch, and which is secured to us by the sufferings and death of our precious Saviour! The things above are ours now, and as things here are shaken and pass away it is more and more a comfort and joy to think of them.

I trust you are sustained in a quiet confiding sense of the love of God, and of His faithfulness. He has considered all that His saints have to pass through, and He intends that it shall all work for good. It is part of the process by which He is preparing us for glory. We do not always understand God’s ways with us, for they are “past finding out”, but when the result of them all is seen we shall glorify Him for them all.

But we have something even greater than the ways of God to think about. We have God Himself, revealed to us in love by His beloved Son; and this is the resting place of our hearts even while we prove what a scene of sorrow we are passing through. May you and yours have the sweet comfort of His known and trusted love! ...

Yours affectionately in Him,

May 5th, 1942.