“WICK, 21st April, 1901.
DEAR FRIEND,—I got your letter in due time. It is very few letters I am writing now. I am getting very old, only wanting less than two months of ninety years. My health is wonderful. I had good health in general all my long life. If I could praise the Most High for His goodness!
The Lord began to deal in a spiritual way with me, when I was fourteen years of age, and He kept me in providence from many evils others were falling into. I should see the good guiding of His hand in preservation from these evils. But at present my mind is very dead in a spiritual way. I am very lifeless spiritually. In what a wonderful way the Most High leads and keeps His own people! He has a way to keep His own and lead them in ways they know not, and in paths they cannot understand. He says, ‘What I do ye know not now, but ye shall know hereafter.’ What a care He has of His people! How little they will realise it in time! It will take eternity to know it in height and depth and length and breadth. It is above knowledge, and it will be beyond their comprehension to all eternity. But the Lord took their nature into union with Himself so that He would know their infirmities, and He went through the world in their nature, ‘a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.’
I am glad you are getting a measure of bodily health. . . . May the Most High be your guide and portion, wherever you will be! With kind regards and best respects, etc.,
ROBERT ROSS.”
Rev. D. Beaton’s second article on the “Doctrine of Never-Ending Punishment” will (D.V.) appear in January issue.
Mr. W. Grant, London, acknowledges with thanks, 10/ from “Friends,” Gask House, Auchterarder, and 10/ from “Friends,” Cullicudden, for London Building Fund.