Book Review: Gathering Up the Fragments by W. Potter

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This book contains choice excerpts of the ministry of our late brother Walter Potter. A cobbler in Chicago in his early years, Mr. Potter later spent time in company with Mr. Darby in England. Though he wrote very little for print, through the efforts of those who took notes in shorthand, excerpts of his simple, practical ministry were preserved. We heartily recommend this volume to our readers.
On page 126, regarding the hope of the Lord’s coming, Mr. Potter purposely misquotes 2 Timothy 4:88Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (2 Timothy 4:8): “All them also that believe in His appearing.” Then he writes: “Is that what it says? No! What does it say then? ‘All them that LOVE His appearing.’ What the truth of the second coming of Christ is to your soul is indicative of the state of your soul. Is it a blessed hope? What about the treasure (2 Cor. 4:3-113But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. (2 Corinthians 4:3‑11)), and what about the blessed hope? In each case the affection of the heart is involved!”
On pages 248-249, we find very searching words concerning the “sacredness” of the Lord’s Day. He says: “We have little conception, perhaps, of what that event was for God and His Son when He rose from the dead, the beginning of a new creation. That day is still sacred to the thoughts of God and ought to be so in the thoughts of His people.”
Ed.