Oh let no brother or sister become distinguished in grace and then decline, let none bear fruit and afterwards become barren; but may our path “shine more and more unto the perfect day.” It is this our spirit craves after, with strong desire, that the whole of our life, from the commencement with Christ to its ending with our being with Christ, may glorify and bring help to his church.
And now, hear us again while we cry unto you. Our chief desire is for your cause in the earth. We are often very heavy about it. The days seem to us to be neither dark nor light, but mingled; oh that the element of light might overcome the darkness! We do pray, raise up in these days a race of men that shall know the gospel and hold it fast