... You have had a heavy burden on your mind... as to the —’s. And I can well understand what you passed through. It would be a great joy to me if the —’s were entirely delivered from the desire to participate in these worldly things. They do not realize, as yet, what a snare these things are, and how they displace Christ in the heart, and lower the tone of their Christian testimony. Christ is not all to them, and practically these things become more than Christ, because the one thing must displace the other. It is such a rare thing in these days to find a young man or a young woman who is out and out for Christ — to whom Christ is everything, the Alpha and Omega of their life. Yet such are priceless treasures to the Lord, and will be to the saints among whom they move. Everything given up for Christ! That is true giving up, and belongs to the path of true discipleship. I hope both J. and E. may get deliverance from these things, and learn the force of the words in Psalm 16. “I have set the Lord always before me.”...
I am rejoiced to hear of the continued interest and blessing in the readings. I trust this may continue.
I thought perhaps — would not quite accept your letter on the Sabbath question. While he has the knowledge of forgiveness, I do not think he knows what it is to be delivered from law as a principle. And I suppose he does not see that the Sabbath has not been changed. I would be glad if he could get clear on that question....