By The Editor.
The last wish of my beloved wife concerning our work was, as I have told you before, but I am sure you will not object to my reminding you again — “I should like to feel that my sufferings (and she suffered much) would be for the blessing of others.”
This can be done, by supporting me in my great loss, by your prayers, and by helping me to send for her sake, the Word of God, all over the world.
A dear friend from Norwich writes:
Dear Dr. Wreford, I have great pleasure in sending you my pension this week in memory of dear Mrs. Wreford. You have my deep sympathy in your great bereavement — it is a great bereavement, and only the Master who understands can comfort. He says: “I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you,” and “My peace I give unto you.”
God bless you dear Dr., and if it is Iris will, may fie strengthen you to still carry on this work for Him.
With my earnest prayer for you and your helpers, Yours sincerely, S.R.
Such a gift as this brings tears to the eyes. May it bring a great blessing to the giver, such as in old days fell upon the “poor widow” who cast her two mites, which make a farthing, into the “Treasury of God.”
Dear friends, we cannot carry on our work without the strengthening power of your prayers, given by a prayer-answering God. I ask your help now, for the sake of the tens of thousands who are longing for our parcels, which we shall not be able to continue to send, as we have sent, unless the “showers of blessing” descend upon us.
Dear friends, we have worked together for God in “His Harvest Fields” for very many years now. I have lost the help and advice and comfort of the most devoted wife man could ever have. I feel in my sorrow, I want your help all the more and I want it now. Shall I ask for it in van?
Yours affectionately for Christ’s sake,
Heyman Wreford,
Post Office Chambers,
Gandy Street, Exeter, England.
From “In His Harvest Fields” (for September).