Most Reverend Mother in Israel:—
Your very helpful letter came duly, but I cannot overcome the thought that letters are burdensome to you. I expect to go to Duluth, Minnesota, to work during January. They have never had one of your students among them, and have invited me to come and preach for them and teach a class.
The field is growing here, and while I have kept my eye on the plough, and the growing field, I have had my eye and heartfelt expectancy on the reaping bye and bye. It is ripening now. Many signs of the golden grain from the earliest sowing! How my heart has patiently yearned for what I now see! I have been more in sympathy with you in your place under God. Had I looked for earthly reward, how sad my disappointment! Yet it has been sufficient. They pay me a salary of $2,000 per year, which with my practice and teaching, has met all our needs. They will pay $'2,500 for a term of three years, but I have always kept this as a mission field. They love me, and for many reasons I am in their way, as they think the work cannot go on without me.
The baptism will not cease till His will is wholly done. I see that; and what matters the place where we drink his cup,— Truth? My own battles with self are more frequent, but less severe. It is Art and Science to keep the King on top, and self as a reflector of the Lord of Lords. The book is more and more a Scripture to me. The healing here is good. The students have two Sunday schools among the poor, and the good work is increasing. It seems surely that one thousand copies of the Book have been sold since we came here.
