by Mr A. Docter
Oostringel,
Delft,
9th April, 1949.
My dear friend,
How wonderful and powerful is the Lord through Jesus Christ, when He speaks to a creature who has sinned in everything and has no right to anything. “Arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee.” My dear friend, may the Lord grant you this favour to feel a constant hunger after Jesus Christ and His righteousness. Oh! to be thirsty after the living water! For those, there shall be in that day a fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness. To be washed in His precious blood from sin and from uncleanness! The older we are growing the more we are feeling our unwillingness. How terrible is sin! I once attended the funeral of a godly woman, a friend of mine, and I was jealous of her, being now delivered from the body of sin and death. The apostle says “And we know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness,” the world without and the world within. Oh those enemies in our hearts, our corrupt nature and the temptations of Satan!
How good that we read about Lot. That righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, VEXED his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds. The Lord Jesus prayed for His people “I pray not that Thou should take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” The Lord grant you this privilege to be kept from the evil.
Last Saturday we called on a woman who used to be a Spiritualist. She is often tried, and through grace she is learning more and more about sinful nature.
Hope this letter will find you in good health. My wife wants to be remembered to you.
Yours sincerely, A. DOCTER.
Delft, Feb. 1950.
My dear friend,
I wonder how you are at present and what your prayers are. The Redeemer said to Peter “But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not.” Satan desired to have him that he might sift him as wheat. In his own strength Peter had said “Though all shall be offended, yet will not I.” And Peter denied his Saviour thrice. I have often thought about this at communion seasons in your country.
My unforgettable blind friend, who is now singing the song of Moses and the Lamb, was a very godly woman. One day she told me she had not been able to pray for three days. She would close her eyes, bend her knees but no access to the throne of grace. Suddenly those words were given to her “My Father worketh hitherto and I work” “Amen” she said, “now I have prayed.”
My dear old friend, I am often thinking of you. You are old, and must have known many of the Lord’s people in former days. How lonely you must feel when you are attending communion, and when you are thinking of those days when there were so many of the Lord’s people. Your life is drawing to a close, the Lord grant you His blessings in Jesus Christ.
Your sincere friend, A. DOCTOR.