MAY 11TH, 1945

MAY 11TH, 1945

BELOVED BROTHER, — My heart is touched to receive your very kind and brotherly letter, and the enclosed gift from the dear brethren at — .

I can, indeed, bear witness of their love for many years past; and I trust the repeated experience of it serves to deepen my appreciation of the spiritual affections manifested by them. I thank God for the comfort and support I have found in their fellowship, which I specially value at a time when my ability to do anything in the way of service is so very limited. I am thankful to say I am proving all the time abounding love, and I have no lack of anything that would be for my comfort.

Please give my warmest love in the Lord to the dear brethren, and my hearty thanks for their liberal gift, and for their prayers.

I have been able, through mercy, to be at the readings here the last two Wednesdays. We have had before us the greatness of Christ in the glorious position which He holds as the Head of the body, and the blessed character of the body as a spiritual formation which is altogether of Christ. The Colossians stood in the truth of Romans and 1 Corinthians, but they needed the added touch of their own epistle to fortify them ^[p. 346] against those who would lead them away, and to bring them into completeness in Christ, and into the true blessedness of having Christ in them. I think we were made to feel how good it would be if we were all spiritually formed in the truth of the Colossian epistle....

I have heard this week of the Lord using our dear brother — in the blessing of several young people in — . He was also used lately in blessing to several in — . We are always glad to know of the Lord raising up those with evangelistic gift. And our dear brother’s history has been an encouraging one.

With much love in the Lord to dear Mrs. — and yourself,

Yours affectionately in Him,

May 11th, 1945.