Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded

If you are a reader, and would rather just read through the Flipbook here is the link: Flipbook Letters of John Nelson Darby, Volume 2, Letter 355 & 56

p54 R T Grant, I have been through South France a little, and German Switzerland, since then Wurtemberg, now Elberfeld, and have had six ‘Guelph’ meetings, small and great, very much on being dead with Christ, though other aspects too.

Elberfeld, November, 1869.

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p55 [R T Grant] [To the same.] DEAREST BROTHER, – I am still here hard at work at the German Old Testament. At any rate, I shall be a great deal more familiar with Hebrew in going thus through the whole Bible, of which I had only read parts in Hebrew. But it is very hard work, but I feel the Lord with me, so that when I teach and preach I have been helped. My German is pretty well come back to me, so that I have taught and preached to some four or five hundred in the meeting – of course, with faults, but sufficient for the work, and their following all well. The scriptures are seen clearer and more precious, and the Lord Himself – oh, how much more so. I feel nearer home, and home nearer me. It is a mercy to find it more familiar – the heart more in it – but it is mercy that I know well. The work has considerably opened here. In Italy I trust it is beginning, but there much patience is needed; the education of the people gives a character which greatly requires it.

Affectionately yours in the Lord.

Elberfeld, 1869.

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