AUGUST 25TH, 1942

AUGUST 25TH, 1942

BELOVED SISTER IN THE LORD, — We have heard today of the departure of your dear husband to be with Christ, and our hearts are deeply moved as feeling that we are bereaved of one whom we greatly valued and loved. We can and do sympathise very truly with you in the great sorrow which has come upon you, and we pray that the Lord Himself may be your solace and support and make Himself and His love exceedingly precious to your heart. You have the unspeakable comfort of knowing that your loved one is with the Lord, whom he loved and served so earnestly and faithfully for many long years, and whose care and support he proved even to the end. For he was permitted to continue in active service amongst the dear brethren to the end, and this is just what he wished to do, I am sure. I thank God upon every remembrance of him, and I am glad to have had sweet links of fellowship with him, and particularly that I was privileged to have those few days in — which I think of with continual pleasure. I am comforted to know that you will be surrounded by the love and sympathy of the dear saints, who will enter very affectionately into all that has come upon you, and you will have the prayers of the brethren far and wide. It is blessed to know that soon we shall be all together with the Lord, when there will never be anything to distract our hearts from Him, and we shall be conformed to His image, for His glory, and for the satisfaction of the Father’s love. What joy it will ^[p. 312] be to serve Him perfectly as seeing His face and reflecting His beauty! And we owe it all to Him, and to the wondrous love which took Him in death for us.

Please do not think that this letter needs any reply. I only wanted to assure you of the remembrance and sympathy of many here who love you and who loved and valued your beloved husband.

With fervent love in the Lord,

Yours very affectionately in Him,

August 25th, 1942.