NOVEMBER 13TH, 1895

NOVEMBER 13TH, 1895

DEAR —, — ... We are very sorry to know that you have so much trial and difficulty in your path. I know it is a good deal easier to moralise on such things when outside them, or even when passing through them, than it is to get the present good of the exercise which the Lord intends them to work in our souls. Psalm 42 - Psalm 44 give us a remarkable history of soul-exercise, and the “afterward” comes in Psalm 45. In Psalm 42 and Psalm 43 it is the condition of the soul itself which is the chief cause of exercise, and this is the first and deepest question that God raises with us. In Psalm 44 it is the outward circumstances and oppression that are in view. But the soul itself has got right, though suffering so bitterly under the government of God, and it accepts all from God. Note the seven “Thou’s” verses 9 - 19. It can then count upon His “mercy” (”loving-kindness”) verse 26; and can say, “For thy sake are we killed all the day long”.

Yours affectionately in Christ,

November 13th, 1895.