MAY 27TH, 1943

MAY 27TH, 1943

BELOVED BROTHER, — I thank you for your very kind letter of the 21st inst. I warmly appreciate your brotherly love, and sympathy, and prayers, and also the affectionate interest of the dear brethren in — . My enforced rest has been, I think, for my physical good and, I trust, not without some spiritual gain. And the love of the dear brethren has been a sweet cordial to my spirit.

Through God’s mercy I have not suffered any pain, so that being laid aside for a time was not attended by any discomfort.

I feel that my strength is reduced, and the doctor tells me I must keep in mind now that I am an old man. But this is not an unhappy consideration, and I trust it may favour the acquisition in increased measure of a wise heart — a heart strengthened to be a dwelling-place for Christ.

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

Yours affectionately in Him,