Thanks for your good letter and for the manuscript, which I also read to Br. Kvalheim. It was very clear and more convincing than what I wrote; so you can destroy my response, because we don’t need to publish another rebuttal to the same article in the next issue. Just make sure to use the opportunity to rebuke and exhort after you are done convincing, since it is written “convince, rebuke, exhort.”

Br. Kvalheim was baptized on September 19—last Sunday afternoon. There were two brothers from the Salvation Army who came as witnesses. Yesterday we held the first meeting for the mission work and collected 2.75 kroner. They are following the way it has been done in Horten. Br. Kvalheim came up with the idea on his own.

This issue of Skjulte Skatter will be confrontational. It’s only natural that we should be permitted to defend the knowledge God has revealed to us. Just let it be tested; it will become even more evident that it works. These people have passed themselves off for years as being teachers, but on the day God ignites a zeal in the spirit of His witnesses, their doctrines crumble right before their students’ eyes. It is dangerous for someone to assert things as being fact which they have neither seen nor heard in the Spirit. Right from the beginning, God has taught me to be very careful and never to teach anything other than what the Lord has revealed by His Spirit. So it has also been a great joy to see that everything has stood the test of time. None of it has been refuted. May God teach us faithfulness, so we never get carried away with things we have not seen.

So now, just let this doctrine crumble completely. Spare not and fear not. Let it be reduced to rubble so that God can be honored through Jesus Christ and His knowledge can radiate and shine brightly on all the ruins of high-mindedness. We must make use of the opportunities, and we must haul in even the least amount of “slack,” so that they always have the feeling that we are watching. God’s work has always started in lowliness, but nothing has ever been able to withstand its power.

I am enclosing a letter from Br. Ellefsen. Write him a few words now and again. He needs it up there in desolate Finnmark. Address: Viking, Nordland. Br. Aslaksen and I have agreed that all new songs should be sent to me, and afterwards to Br. Berg, who will take care of the musical aspect. Grønneberg is sick and Aslaksen does not have time, and we need a songbook. It is good that you are working in the Hurum district and that sinners are being saved in Drøbak.

Greet your wife and the friends.

Warm greetings from your brother,