APRIL 9TH, 1943

APRIL 9TH, 1943

BELOVED BROTHER, — Your letter reached me this morning, and it gives me the opportunity of praying for you at a time when you are going through bodily weakness. I hope it may be the will of God to grant you full recovery so that you may continue among the beloved saints for their comfort and for ^[p. 320] your own joy and His glory. I have no doubt you are proving that when the Lord calls His own aside from the normal course of their life He has some distinct purpose of blessing in it. He has enabled you to perceive what the great end is which He has before Him, and that it requires subjection. The spirit of insubjection has marred everything here, and we know how it has wrought in our own experience, but the knowledge of God as revealed in love has become powerful to deliver us from it, and this deliverance is being perfected all the time in view of what you have spoken of as finality. The full strength and vigour of spiritual life is known when divine Persons are before us, and I trust you will have some experience of this while you are laid aside. I can in measure sympathise with you in your weakness, for I have known it in my own life, but have learned that it is often preservative and educational, and that it liberates from the influence of many things that tend to obscure spiritual vision....

With love in the Lord to your dear wife and yourself,

Yours affectionately in Him,

April 9th, 1943.