Thank you for your good letter dated Nov. 14, together with Br. Hedin’s letter, which I am returning.

Regarding Br. Hedin and Br. Kleppe’s trip to Copenhagen: Try to make sure that you distance yourself, so that later you are not held responsible for whatever they might do. A servant in the church must be tested, and it’s extremely difficult to be of any use without this. After I arrived home, I wrote to Copenhagen saying that the situation in Gothenburg seemed very tense.

What the churches need now is the knowledge of God. Last Wednesday, God’s Spirit brought revelation to us in Horten. God’s Word became living among the women. Mrs. Knudsen got revelation, and she stood up and testified, and everyone rejoiced with her. We must endeavor to teach the friends to find their joy in the revelation of the Scriptures, because this has the ability now, just as it had in the days of old, to set hearts aflame. For years people have been accustomed to dry “doctrine,” and this is why they shy away from the knowledge of God, not knowing how to distinguish between the two. Br. Wintersborg wrote to me that I should be careful how I wrote in Missionæren since I could easily cause damage (he wrote this before my article was published in Missionæren). But the fact of the matter is, we don’t have any “movement” to support or defend. Our task is to abide in the truth, even if the “movement” falls completely to pieces around us. Movements come and go, but God’s Word abides forever. Let us therefore prove what is that good and acceptable will of God and act accordingly. Let us also continually search the Scriptures to make sure that everything we see and hear is in accordance with them.

I made a wood-burned plaque with the words: “In holy splendor, Your young people will come to You like dew from the womb of the dawn.” [Ps. 110:3, Norw.]. This is now hanging over our bed. Pauline has always had a little picture hanging above Kristian’s bed, with the words, “Make Your face shine upon Your servant,” but I’m now planning to make a wood-burned plaque of it. And for Johanne: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!” I’ve already got some planed boards.

The verse that was so living for Mrs. Knudsen was Rom. 12:10: “Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another.” Maybe I should make a wood-burned plaque of this as well and hang it in the small sitting room.

Warm greetings to everyone at home, to the brothers and sisters, and to you.

Your brother,

Let 1 Sam. 3:10 and Rev. 3:22 be burned deeply into your own heart and into the hearts of the others, because the Lord is the source of all things.