1. To Mr. Donald Sutherland
4 Shaftesbury Terrace,
GLASGOW
13th April, 1908.
My dear Mr. Sutherland,
Many thanks for your telegram which has raised my hopes of your success. You shall reap if you faint not. This weak effort for the truth’s sake never left my mind since I came from London, and I have been bending my knees to plead that the Lord Jesus would gather this weak beginning under His own wings as a hen doth her chickens. If He be for you, who can be against you? I do believe that He is with you, and will be with you, while you continue to do everything according to His Word, and while you will refuse to mix His holy ordinances with the things which the flesh thirsts after. What has Christ to do with Belial, or the temple of the Lord with idols? Surely nothing. Christ’s holy name should not be sacrilgiously used to cover the works of the flesh, if men will have vain songs, dancing, etc. let them have them in the name of the spirit that rules in the children of disobedience. I know Satan will roar if his cloak be taken off him; for he cannot get on so well in his own name. Conscience will not so easily sleep when the sinner is told that the Lord Jesus Christ is opposed to such practices.
I hope Thomas Cameron will be upheld in body and mind in that great Babylon, and that you, Willie Grant, all the rest of you who desire that Christ’s kingdom should be set up and upheld in your midst, may see yet the plummet in the hand of Zerubabel putting the copestone on the building, “Crying grace, grace unto it.”
Please remember me to all the friends of truth among you as if mentioned by name, and with kindest regards to Robert, Frank and Miss Watt.
Fond regards to Thos., Willie and yourself.
Yours very sincerely,
Neil Cameron.
2. To Mr. William Grant
4 Shaftesbury Terrace,
Glasgow.
January 11th, 1910.
My dear Mr. Grant,
You have often come before my mind since I came home from London. I realise that a heavy burden lies on yourself and the other young men who are with you in connection with the Cause of Christ in that place. You will need a deep baptism into the Spirit of Christ in order to your being useful in advancing His interests in that great Sodom.
The first duty you owe to one another is a large measure of the grace of love. This would enable you to cover the failings of one another from the world, and keep peace and harmony among yourselves. May the Lord grant you all much of this grace. You will need also sincere obedience to the voice of Christ in His own Word. He alone should rule by His Word in everything. This rule must be followed in dealing with the Lord’s people and with the world, without respect of persons. But this will need a good deal of wisdom so that neither Jew nor Greek, nor the Church of God be unnecessarily offended.
It gave me very great pleasure to have found peace and harmony amongst you while I was there, and I have been often pleading since that the Lord would make you one lump. The world will certainly hate you, and will say all manner of evil about you falsely for Christ’s sake; but you need not wonder at that. They have called Christ, Beelzebub, and how can you expect to get better treatment than your Lord got.
We had a meeting of the Southern Presbytery last night at which I reported the circumstances of your Mission, and the impressions (favourable) which were left on my mind after my second visit. The Presbytery unanimously appointed me as your future interim Moderator, with four elders as assessors, in order that you should have a session. I asked our Clerk, Rev. J.S.S., if he had received a list of members from you, and he told me no. Perhaps you will send it, when convenient, to me.
I trust you are all well at Seymour House. Please offer my kind regards to each as if mentioned by name.
Mother is always frail and confined to bed; the rest of us are fairly well.
I trust you get good news from home. Remember me to them all when you write.
With kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely,
Neil Cameron.