JANUARY 30TH, 1917

JANUARY 30TH, 1917

MY DEAR BROTHER, — I am glad you noticed the sequence of things in the history of Paul as corresponding with what we have seen to be the case during the last century. I had thought of it myself as being a very interesting analogy.

In the assembly everything works from the top, and for this very reason the things at the bottom — if we may so speak of the responsible life — must be in moral keeping with what is at the top. How could there be moral disparity in a system which on every plane is of God? Thus the moral line and the purpose line are ever in harmony, and the more we look into Scripture the more we see the wisdom of God in maintaining both. Our great weakness really lies on the moral side. G.V.W. in 1855 said that brethren had received and enjoyed the truth of the assembly, but that they were not in spiritual power in the kingdom, and that this was the secret of all the feebleness and failure. A very striking testimony from a man of God!

With much love in the Lord,

Yours very affectionately;

January 30th, 1917.