My Dear Brother:-

Your letter I found on our return last night from… As you say, the dividing of our Lord's person seems to be a snare of peculiar attraction and danger. " No man knoweth the Son but the Father." It is blessed to see, however, that God has most jealously guarded His holy Person from degradation at just the points where He stooped in humiliation. Thus at His baptism, where He associated Himself with those who had confessed their sins, the descent of the Spirit and the voice from heaven declare plainly He had no sin to confess; or in Psa. 102:, where He speaks of His being "cut off," God declares His eternal deity, and all things the work of His hands. In the types, too, as I have been going over them in the Tabernacle, this divine care is seen constantly. The Manna which tells of His humiliation to be the food of His people, is laid up before God in a golden pot-divine glory. I think this is specially beautiful in the acacia wood:the various articles, boards, etc., are made of it:it gives form to these, but the gold takes the same form and overlays all. So it is God in human form, "Wherever we follow Thee, Lord, admiring, adoring, we see." May it be indeed ours to worship Him; and if we lay off the skin of the Burnt-offering and divide it into its parts, may it be ever and only for presentation in entire worship to our God. (Lev. 1:) S. R.