WE heartily commend the subjoined letter to the attention of the Lord’s people in every place. May all be stirred up to more earnest prayer and increased devotedness. “Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Cor. 15:57-5857But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:57‑58)): ― “We have been having special meetings for prayer for some time now. (1.) For the whole Church of God, that each one (believer) might be awakened by the ‘midnight cry,’ that all ears may be opened to hear the Bridegroom’s voice, He who loved the Church and gave Himself for it, who loves us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and who in no unmistakable tones says to that which is so dear to His heart, I will come again,’
I come quickly, ‘Surely I come quickly.’ (2.) That every unsaved member of His people’s households may be brought in, that our faith may be able to take in ‘Thou and thy house,’ that we may awake to our privileges and responsibilities. (3.) As those who are so blessed, may we think of those who have nothing, and hold forth the ‘Word of life’ steadfast, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for surely we are living in the last days of this dispensation. It is very dark, it hangs like a pall over poor Christendom, for the first man is prominent with his ritual, his images, and incense. The grace and the glories of the Second Man, the Lord from heaven unnoticed but by few―what must that patient One see as He looks down at it all which professes to be His?
“Oh, dear brother, may we look to Him to be kept bright in His service, and all His own, that by grace we may refresh His heart, which was broken for us at Calvary, counting all things loss down here, and laying hold upon those things which abide for eternity.
“We have been encouraged by the Lord answering in some measure our prayers, and I can say we are much strengthened and blessed in our souls.” C. H. F.