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DEAR PASTOR AND BROTHER BELOVED IN THE LORD:--Greetings! Since I cannot see my way to join in personalfellowship with you and the dear friends in Aberdeen, I mustgive vent to my sentiments by writing a few words to congratulateyou, the Lord's honored servant, on this welcomevisit to the "Granite City."How could I let such an opportunity pass without tellingyou that my heart still warms toward you because of the soul-cheeringmessage, which flows from your lips and pen, settingatune the melodious heartstrings of so many of the Lord'sholy harpers!I know you will respond, "Let the praise be His," but as theMaster said, "Whom my Father honors I will also honor";therefore, I thank you, as the servant whom He uses in dispensingHis favors so free, and my sincere prayer, in whichSister Blaikie joins, is that the good Lord shall continue tobless and prosper you in your earnest labors of love on behalfof His precious, consecrated flock.Humbly yours, in the Morning Light,R. W. BLAIKIE.--Scotland.----------R5106 : page 299MY DEAR PASTOR RUSSELL:--We are now paying our 15th annual visit as evangelists toour native county of Worcestershire, and being supplied fromyour London depot with two large parcels of your publications,we are entering upon a new phase of the Mission. Wehave already distributed large quantities in Sydenham andLondon. I regard them as direct and powerful weapons ofdestruction against (1) Darwin's doctrine of Evolution; (2)Roman Catholicism; (3) John Calvinism; (4) The naturalimmortality of the soul; (5) The ferocious doctrine of EternalTorment in hell; (6) The monkish teaching of an eternalDevil:--and reconstruction in favor of (1) A Scripturalmode of exegesis of the Bible; (2) The true science of geologyand the creation of the earth, involving its perpetuity;(3) The divinity of Christ on which doctrine the Ransom-priceis paid; (4) God's "plan" of destroying evil and establishingeverlasting righteousness as one Jehovah; (5)Making future life depend on resurrection; (6) The doctrineof Restitution "of all things spoken by the mouth of the HolyProphets since the world began."In these books issued by your Society there is a graceand power of expression which, accompanied by high intelligence,makes them most suitable to place in the hands ofall classes, the religious and the irreligious alike, and thereforethe uncompromising spirit of toleration and the absenceof offensive dogma breathed through every page of thesewritings reflects great credit upon both the publishers andthe author. They are well adapted to accomplish the workfor which they are intended. I am pleased, even delighted,at having discovered such labor and laborers in the Master'svineyard and I hope heartily to co-operate in such labors