from Belgium and Holland. We learned that our book `Dispensational Truth'

had been translated into Dutch and awaits the necessary funds for publication*

(* - We are sorry to say that funds for this work were not forthcoming.). We

rejoiced to find that our smaller pamphlets were in circulation. The next step was

the personal visit of our brother Mr. S. Van Mierlo, of Antwerp, who, together

with brother S. J. Pauptit of Scheveningen, Holland, have decided as before the

Lord to publish the blessed truth of the Mystery and accompanying doctrines, so

that many more in Holland may have the privilege of the witness. Carte blanche

has been given to these brethren to use any articles found in The Berean Expositor

and thus share in any good thing given by the Lord. We all felt the time had come

for a personal visit, so on Wednesday, July 24th we visited brother S. Van Mierlo

in Antwerp, where quite a range of points and problems were discussed. We

found our brother confined to his bedroom through illness, but we rejoice with

him in the realization that the Lord's will cannot be frustrated. On July 26th we

reached the Hague, and the whole time, until we left Rotterdam on Monday

evening of the 29th, was filled with conversation, small Bible studies, or

conferences around the Word. On Sunday 28th two conferences were held in

The Hague, and as we look at the faces of these brothers and sisters and heard

their words of appreciation of the witness of The Berean Expositor, we entered

into the meaning of Paul's parenthesis `Unto me, less than the least of all saints is

this grace given'.

Some of our readers have seen the chart prepared to illustrate Ephesians, in the

shape of a pair of balances. This we were enabled to turn into Dutch, and both

morning and afternoon sessions were occupied in the survey of this great epistle.

Three brethren undertook the work of interpreting, and we were glad to discover

that English is taught in the Dutch schools much as French is taught here.

The conference occupied the hours of 10.0-12.0 and 2.0-5.0.  We had the

pleasure at the end of the same day of attending a Bible Study conducted by

Mr. Pauptit and of rejoicing to behold the keenness of both teacher and student.

It gave us intense pleasure also to meet several Jewish brethren who, like Paul in

the third of Philippians had counted all things loss, for the excellency of the

knowledge of Christ Jesus the Lord.

The witness in Holland is but the beginning.  There are beloved fellow

members in adjacent countries on the Continent that we long to meet that our

mutual faith may be strengthened. The Lord is able. We rejoice to think that the

witness of The Berean Expositor is not cumbered with unscriptural organizations,

and that our friends in Holland have no intention of forming any society or sect,

but of just patiently endeavouring `to keep', not to invent or to make, `the unity of

the Spirit in the bond of peace'.

At the conferences, we were charge to convey to all in England and overseas

who are of like precious faith, the love and heartfelt greetings of these brethren

and sisters in Holland, and we are sure that in the name of all our readers this love

is most heartily reciprocated.