MARCH 8TH, 1943

MARCH 8TH, 1943

BELOVED BROTHER, — I greatly appreciated your kindness in writing to give me details as to the departure of your dear mother to be with Christ.

You and all the family have been very much on my heart and in my prayers since your bereavement. I can enter very sympathetically into the sorrow of it, for there is something peculiarly sweet and tender in the link which is divinely formed between a mother and her children. And the breaking of that link touches the heart in some of its deepest affections. But the Lord intended this sorrow to have its part in the formation of a vessel that can be tenderly susceptible of influences from Himself as having known His sympathy in it.

Your mother endeared herself to all who knew her, and filled her place of service in a way which, I am sure, was very pleasing to the Lord. She has left an example to be considered and followed, and models are fully as important as teachers, for they bring out the living virtue of divine grace, and have thus a very practical and effective place in the testimony.

With much love in the Lord and true sympathy with you all,

Yours affectionately in Him,