We are thankful for the spirit of prayer and fellowship awakened over the meetings for the study of the Book of Daniel. If the Lord will, we earnestly hope that similar meetings may be held later on in a larger room so as to permit of wider invitations.
One writes regretting inability to attend:
“I should like to be there, because I have an idea that important truths might easily be met, especially in the Book of Daniel... and as to the duration of Gentile power which I feel sure is closing. The midnight with the Virgins in Matthew, and the midnight with the Voyagers in Acts is also past. The bread has been broken and the Voyagers refreshed, and I deem we are near some new country, and thank God there is no uncertainty about it. I quite expect God has in store some truth with which to revive the drooping expectancy of His waiting Church, and I pray God that you may find it at this very conference.... I will confess I am astounded that we are in such a plight with the Holy Ghost down here. It is incredible.”
Another writes:
“The moral condition of that beloved one―Daniel―is very much to be desired. Chapter 9. is wonderful―the spirit of it we much need―word for word. How we need the spirit of verses 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, and many others! It would be blessed if kings and rulers read such as chapter 2 and had light given to them as to verse 41. We can reach them by prayer.”
Another again writes:
“I should be thankful to come (D.V.) and get what God might be pleased to give me, and should think that such a meeting under God’s hand might be a means of knitting hearts together. We have been praying about it, and shall continue to do so. I should be very thankful to see others coming, not amongst so-called Brethren; anything that helps to break through the sectarian habits, and bring us together as children of God simply, to look to Him for what He has to give at the present time, makes one thankful to God!”
While yet another refuses to come, because he heard that a certain one might be present of a different “ecclesiastical position” from his own!
Of far greater importance than “ecclesiastical positions” is the work of God for the glory of Christ in the souls of men, as is forcibly described in the letter of another:
“I much regret that circumstances over which I have no control have prevented me from being with you at this time to read the Scriptures of Truth. I pray God may abundantly bless your being together over His Word.
“There has just been a medical student in with me to say that such was the infidelity and skepticism he met with, not only amongst the learned (?) in the local Queen’s College, but also in the clergy―to whom he applied for help―that he was inclined to throw Christianity overboard as he felt he was no match for them. When we had talked a long time, and some quiet of mind was restored to him, I believe he is a Christian, but among Presbyterians, he asked me pitifully if there was no one to put my views (he meant those which bowed to the Scriptures as the Word of God) before the Churches which were being led to ruin by those who professed to be their guides. I was glad to be able to give him the Inspiration of the Scriptures and the Irrationalism of Infidelity, which he eagerly took. All this only shows one the character of the days in which we live, ‘heaping to themselves teachers having itching ears,’” &c.