NOVEMBER 28TH, 1903

NOVEMBER 28TH, 1903

DEAR —, — We are thankful to hear of improvement in dear Miss —, and trust it may continue and be sure, even though slow. You have indeed had a long time of exercise in this way. God is pleased to keep Marah present with us in many ways — causing us to taste death in some measure that we may the more appreciate and appropriate the One who has been ^[p. 44] into it in order to make it the blessed witness of all the depths of divine love. This is the time of pressure, but the psalmist could say: “In pressure thou hast enlarged me”. We do not get enlarged in corn and new wine, but in having the light of God’s countenance filling our hearts with joy. If brought low as to life here it is that we may be exalted in the knowledge of Christ.

Many thanks for your love and sympathy and prayers. One can have nothing better here than the love and prayers of the saints. I am thankful to be remembered thus by the dear brethren at — .

I have been running down in health a long time, and the five months’ nursing of Mother last winter, and confinement to the house more than usual, seem to have been the finishing touch. I managed to go on, though feeling unequal to things, until the end of July when I quite broke down, and have been in a very low state ever since, and not at a meeting since the middle of August....

Yours very affectionately,

November 28th, 1903.