SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1899

SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1899

DEAR —, — ... It is very blessed to know that infinite love is ordering everything for our good, and for the blessing of our souls. And at the same time there is infinite mercy that considers all our weakness, and tempers everything so that we are enabled to bear it. We have to learn that death is here, and the water is bitter until our hearts are made conscious that Christ has been in death — coming there in the most blessed love — and when we realise this it sweetens the bitter waters.

It is a comfort, too, that every Marah has its Elim, Exodus 15. God is the God of all encouragement, and the Father of mercies, and He does not fail to send times of refreshing and rest to cheer the hearts of His worn and weary people in their pilgrim journey. May your dear sister prove this, and abundantly realise the present priestly grace of Christ as a sustaining power for her heart! It would be quite right to pray, in subjection to God’s will, that she might be strengthened, but the great thing is to learn the divine lessons which God would teach by the discipline through which His holy love allows us to pass.

We came down here a week ago, and hope to stay in S. Devon for some time. Mother is very weak now, and only able to get to a meeting occasionally.

With much love in the Lord, . Yours affectionately in Him,

September 28th, 1899.