NOVEMBER 2ND, 1943
NOVEMBER 2ND, 1943
BELOVED BROTHER, — I am sure that you have counted on my deep interest and prayerful sympathy in the very heart-testing experience you have passed through, and now in the great bereavement of which you and your household are feeling the sorrow. But I am moved to send you a few words of much affection, that you may know that ever since I heard of your dear wife’s illness she and you and your dear children have been daily and nightly in my thoughts and on my heart and have been the subjects of my continued prayers.
The Lord has cared for you and for the loved one who is now with Him, and what He has done in the past He will do. “Having loved ... loved ... unto the end” and so it will be with you and yours. It is sweet to think of His grace as shown to, and shining out in, your beloved wife. It was my privilege and joy to come in contact with it, at intervals, through many years, and I thank God that I was permitted to know her from very early childhood, and to see evidence of the opening, of her heart to the preciousness of Christ, and He has continued to be her support and joy, and to manifest His love to her, and has given her to see divine grace extending itself to her dearly loved children. And now she is with Him who was so [p. 326] much to her while she was here, and He is more to her now, for it is “far better” to be with Him, for there are no distractions of any kind there.
You have been surrounded by the love of the brethren in your sorrow, and I am sure you have much solace in this, and that it will give an added touch to the way in which you serve them, as you are left to encourage them by the comfort which you have yourself received from God.
I look to Him to give you all that special support which the present time requires, and to enable you to continue in His blessed service enriched greatly by what you acquire in your present exercise and experience with God. I shall continue to think of you and your household as His grace enables me.
With very much love in the Lord,
Yours affectionately in Him,
November 2nd, 1943.