by Mr A. Docter
Delft.
April 1951.
My dear friend,
Last month I lost another friend in our country — dear Mr Bruigom, an old godly man with a rich spiritual experience of the saving work of Jesus Christ. He always liked me to tell about Scotland and he spent much of his time in prayer for both countries. I greatly miss him. I used to go to him four times a year.
The funerals of our godly people always remind me of your communion seasons. There were about 300 people present from all parts of the country and, oh! it was good to be there. The Lord was in our midst. It was true what was spoken, “Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?”
Things are as usual with us. My wife wants to nurse her mother in our holidays and wishes me to go to Scotland as she knows I like to go there.
George Whitefield once remarked that God never disappoints us one way, but He opens a door to do good in another. Certainly this is true, but I think there may be some time between being disappointed and experiencing the good. At any rate the door must be opened to be aware of this. Psalm 81 from verse 11, “A hungry soul . . . and the finest of the wheat, together with honey out of the rock”.
What a privilege in these evil days to have godly ministers! In our country there is a little village where on the wall of the inn there hangs a picture of three men — a lawyer, an officer, and a minister, and beneath the following inscriptions: I plead for my country; I fight for my country; I pray for my country.
Hope you are all well. Kindest regards from both of us.
Your friend, A. DOCTER.