JANUARY 7TH, 1901

JANUARY 7TH, 1901

MY DEAR —, — I have owed you a letter now for a long time, but the delay has not been caused by forgetfulness. My heart often turns to the “little flock” at —, with desire for the spiritual blessing and welfare of each one of you. I trust you are really growing, not only in the knowledge of the truth, but in personal acquaintance with Christ in whom it is all livingly expressed. The secret of a free tongue is a full heart. That is, it is easy and delightful to speak of that which fills the heart. A Christ-satisfied heart has but one chosen Theme, and it is a boundless and inexhaustible Theme. The more one thinks of the wonderful place which Christ has at the right hand of God as Head and Centre of God’s world of blessing and glory, the more one is filled with the sense of His immeasurable greatness, and yet it is the greatness of One who has made known His love in the most blessed way to our hearts. He has put His love into contact with our souls by going into death for us. He has accomplished everything that was needed in order that we might be joined to Himself by having His Spirit. It is a most blessed thing to think of this. Not only are our sins forgiven, and ourselves secured for eternal glory in all the acceptability of Christ, but we are even now joined to Him. “He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit”. We have to recognise this, and as the blessedness of it fills our hearts it makes us glad to retire from the world and from our own things, to be more with and for the One who has taken us in love for His own ...

Yours affectionately in Him,

January 7th, 1901.