EXTRACTS

“Jesus heard that they had cast him out”, John 9: 35. How did the tidings come, to Him? We have often spoken of assembly ears. Things happen and only a few know about them because so many do not have assembly ears ... The Lord is ever ready for this—a report or information about His people. It might be through prayer, as you say, but I would rather think that the Lord, here, was taking cognisance of reported conditions. Our care meetings afford opportunities for telling of things, and we have letters coming to us—important letters that we read at our prayer meetings, and which brethren pass around—also things which are passed from mouth to ear so that general conditions may become known.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 55, pp.232, 233)

People seem to turn to this and that as if Christ were not good enough for them. It is pitiable, and I do not see any happiness about such people. I do not see they live for others; they are no great benefit to themselves or to anyone else. If they are no great good to themselves, they will not be to others. The point is that we should be content and happy, having life and peace and liberty, and seeking, so long as we are down here, to be beneficial to others, in other words, to bring forth fruit unto God.

F. E. Raven (N.S. Vol. 16, p.194)

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