A Letter from Rev Neil Cameron
I was pleased to have received your letter and to learn that you were able to rise and go about a little every day, also that your household were all well. So we can say truly: “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us”.
When we consider our fruitlessness in the past and the Lord’s mercy and goodness which followed us all our days, we must say with the Psalmist: “With us He dealt not as we sinned, nor did requite our ill”. The goodness of the Lord is as far beyond our thoughts as the heavens are above the earth. No man can measure that distance, neither has any man ever found out the extent of God’s goodness and mercy. To open a way for this mercy to guilty men, the only begotten Son of God came into this world of sinful, lost men, and by His obedience, sufferings and death, He opened a way for mercy to the guiltiest man on earth.
But, alas, God’s mercy is despised and rejected. Is it not an infallible proof that sin is madness – as it is written: “Madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead”? I have been thinking of the awful condition of guilty men, even in time, if it were not that Christ crucified is held forth, as an Almighty Saviour, in the gospel. If the conscience of any man should be awakened to feel the wrath of God against sin,
1This is the second of a series of letters written to John Maciver of Scorraig, in Wester Ross. Written on 24 June 1926, it was first printed in The Free Presbyterian Magazine for April 1938. A footnote to a previous letter describes him as “a gracious man who lived to the patriarchal age of over 100 years”. The first of these letters was reprinted in June 2024.
would he not fall into despair, without Christ set forth in the gospel? So that we should say from the depth of our heart: “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.”
May the love of God fill your heart in believing that it was out of electing love He sent His Son into the world, to call sinners to repentance, and that it was the same love which moved the Father and the Son to send the blessed Holy Spirit to convince you of sin, and to enable you to place all your hope in Christ. I hope you and all yours are well.