(Not original copy. The typed copy was very abbreviated.
This was taken from Seilas mot Himmelens Kyst.)

Thank you for your good letter, as well as the letters from Father and Berglioth. I also received a letter today from Br. Anthony, enclosing a letter from Jensen-Mår in which he thanks Anthony for his good little article, Beer and Mission Work. Jensen-Mår was irate that Erik (Andersen) had written the way he did; however, he didn’t want to write about it publicly, but privately to Erik.

That was a very good letter you got from Berglioth. I’m amazed that she has taken it the way she has, because I wrote a letter that was very sharp about what a life of laziness is and what a life of laziness is not. But when God adds His blessing, it doesn’t matter if the words seem hard. I think this little situation has been good for Berglioth; she got a taste of what spiritual battle and spiritual forces are all about, which seems to have strengthened her and to some extent guided her course.

Father is in a rather tight spot, and that probably is necessary, before he gives up “expecting some good in this world.” When he gets through the sufferings from this loss, he will be well on the way. Nevertheless, I’m hoping for the best for him now. He would benefit greatly from reading Madame Guyon. Her book gets better and better. She had a long conversation with a very shrewd bishop, and this conversation is truly excellent. In some places, her thinking is so deep spiritually that you hardly dare believe your eyes when you read it. Bishop Bossuet tries to silence her because of what she writes about seeing God in all His manifestations. In Bossuet’s view, He is one person. Among other things, she answers:

“There are therefore two concepts of God: one as subject, the original, primal concept, which is simple and indefinable. The other is of God as a union of distinct divine attributes, which is complex but therefore possible to analyze and define. God, in the way He manifests Himself as this primal concept, is not regarded merely as a collection of attributes, but as the subject or union of them––this is what I call the pure Divinity.”

You see from this how mathematically precise her thinking is.

Madame Guyon says of herself that God sent her chiefly to the spiritual leaders. She recounts that she never preached, but only conversed with people, prayed with them, and wrote to them. God seems to have given us that very same task.

What you sent me is also excellent. I have made some annotations here and there and am nearly finished reading it. I expect to finish by early next week and will then send it on to Father.

You mention working together with those in Denmark. May God lead us as He sees best. I think it would be a good idea if other people brought their suggestions on this. God works as He wills in individual people. But, I think I’ve noticed that Brs. Plum and Rasmussen have the understanding that there is a need for sound instruction. Br. Rasmussen has a stronger influence than you might think on Wittrock, Plum, and Biehl. He unites all these people who are so diverse by not aligning himself particularly with any of them.

On that note, hearty greetings from your brother,