June 10, 1902.
... We will be very glad to see something of you and to enjoy with you the communion of which you speak. Of this the enemy has tried hard to rob us, not merely in a practical way, but even denying its possibility. Do you not think F.E.R.’s statement that we have not fellowship with Christ is a piece of heartless, cold-blooded wickedness?
Dear brother, his system as it came out in his readings in America is, in plain words, apostasy from the truth of Christianity. It is in keeping with very much that is going on in the present day leading on to the final apostasy, which will carry Christendom away after the rapture of the Church. We can easily see a tremendous power of Satan leading along many lines, such as Higher Criticism, Christian Science, Mormonism, Adventism, etc., etc., toward the apostasy seen in the “vine of the earth,” in Rev. 14. And these things are not merely local, but general, especially throughout Protestant countries.
One of these lines is Ravenism. Something of a very subtle nature was necessary to catch those in possession of so much truth as the “Brethren” possessed. But now that they are in the meshes of the enemy, how very rapidly all is being given up. “Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.”
Has it ever struck you that “the fear of God” has very largely lost its place among those who have held the truth as to grace? Where is “the fear of God” in many of the heartless statements that are being put forth by which multitudes are being robbed of the truth? “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him.” If we do not give God His rightful place, how can we learn His mind, or retain it, when once we have it? “No fear of God before their eyes” is an awful state.