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SAMPLES OF INTERESTING LETTERS

OUR BELOVED PASTOR:—

Please accept this as our farewell greetings, hoping you may have a safe voyage and many blessings while you are separated from us.

May the Lord bless and keep you until you return. Our prayers shall ascend in your behalf.

Yours in our precious Redeemer and King,

BROTHER AND SISTER C.,—Pa.

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DEAR BROTHER RUSSELL:—

Greetings from Oakland! We all wish you a happy voyage and a profitable, pleasant trip in Europe.

We wish as a family and individually to express our love and appreciation once again to you for the beautiful Truth which came to us through you. We all eagerly look forward to the coming of the TOWER; it has been so very helpful to us.

We now have a mid-week service, taking up the 5th volume. Some of the little class say they wish all days were Sundays or Wednesdays.

May our heavenly Father’s richest blessings be yours and may he guide you to the end. Much love from all the family.

Your sister by his grace, M. WEBER,—Md.

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OUR DEAR BROTHER RUSSELL:—

The Church at West Medford send to you love and greeting. Also to our dear Brother Bundy.

We wish we could express in words our love and thankfulness to you, as our dear Lord’s faithful servant. Our prayers are for you, that the power of the Highest be with you; that the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your heart and mind.

May the harvest message that you carry prosper; may the people understand how glorious a God we worship; how that his attributes are perfect and his Word vindicated; that his Word shall prosper in the thing whereto he sent it, and that his Truth does shew forth his praise.

Of this European convention we pray, “Father, glorify thy name!” The Lord bless thee, and keep thee, our beloved Pastor.

Yours in his grace, F. E. RILEY,—Mass.

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DEAR BROTHER RUSSELL:—

I know that you will have plenty to keep you busy on your voyage, but I do want to write just a note to reassure you of my continued love and prayers on your behalf. My thoughts and prayers will be with you, especially on your trip, and every day while you are traveling in the narrow channel over the waves of ill-will, bitterness and persecution—on to; yes, almost there!—to the glorious Kingdom on the other side.

The enclosed card I have kept in my Bible for some time. I have looked at it so much and thought of what you said in April 1st TOWER. Will not the Lord’s grace be sufficient for us? And whether he permit us to be smitten down with the literal stones or the symbolic arrows (the bitter words), is he not able to succor us that we be not overwhelmed?

With increasing love and earnest, heartfelt prayer,

Your sister in him, E. W.,—Tex.

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DEARLY BELOVED BROTHER:—

I hope and pray that your voyage may afford you some rest and refreshment for the coming itinerary, and while you cannot “touch bottom” you may know that we follow your journey with the loving interest of the Body.

We brethren in this locality are having some valuable experiences and trials, and are learning both how to sympathize with others and to realize that it is only “through much tribulation we shall enter the Kingdom.”

But oh! how glad I am to believe that these very things indicate the final testings and siftings. How careful we should be, lest a promise being left us any should seem to come short of fulfilling the just and wise conditions of it.

With the exception of a possible half dozen the brethren here are appreciative of and in harmony with the unfolding of the Truth re the Covenants, and have enjoyed the presentations in the TOWERS as “meat in due season.”

I am more than pleased with recent “Interesting Letters.” Pray for me, dear Brother Russell. I shall pray daily for you.

Yours in the love of Christ,

E. H. THOMSON,—D. C.

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GENTLEMEN:—

Find $1.00 enclosed, for which please enroll me as a subscriber for two copies of PEOPLES PULPIT for five years beginning with Vol. I, No. I.

Am very much interested in your new publication and want further information on the subjects discussed therein.

Yours truly, WM. E. HAWKINS,—Del.

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PEOPLES PULPIT ASSN.,

DEAR BROS.:—You will find enclosed one dollar for ten subscribers for the PEOPLES PULPIT for one year each. This is what my little seven-year old boy Bill did last Monday evening.

Yours truly, JEFF BUNCH,—Okla.

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— June 15, 1909 —