DECEMBER 9TH, 1943

DECEMBER 9TH, 1943

MY DEAR —, —, ... I was most thankful to have your letter to tell me how graciously and tenderly the Lord had been pleased to take your dear mother to be with Himself. It is a great loss for you all, and at the same time, I am sure, a cause of deep thankfulness in all your hearts. For with our aged loved ones there is always a relief of spirit in knowing that the time of exercise and weakness and suffering is over, and that the “far better” has been entered upon.

I am specially glad to know that my prayers were answered in your dear mother having rest and joy in the Lord in the time of nature’s greatest weakness. This was His special favour to her and to you all, and it will be a happy memory to cherish.

I should have counted it a privilege to join in the thanksgivings that will ascend from the hearts of the brethren on Saturday, and, indeed, I shall not fail to do so, though it will be here, and not in bodily presence with you.

I have you much in mind also with regard to all the changes which will now necessarily come about, and my prayers will continue that you may have all the needed wisdom and direction that will be called for. What we have proved in the past will not fail us in the present or in the future, whether that, future here be prolonged or shortened as the will of God may order.

^[p. 327] My love and sympathy go out to you all, as you may be assured, and I count upon the Lord for His sustainment as the need requires....

Yours affectionately in Him,

December 9th, 1943.