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REPRESENTING THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF 2X2 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ON THE INTERNET
Walker - Jan/Feb/June? 24, 1926
Edwards - March 5, 1926
Lauchlin, Bob, Jr. - March 17, 1926
Lauchlin - August 3, 1926
Carson, Harry - November 14, 1926
Edwards - November 26, 1926
Presbury, Frank & Jenny - December 7, 1926
Walker, Mrs. Lilian - December 7, 1926 - NEW
Lauchlin, Bob - December 17, 1926
Wm Irvine’s Letter To: Mrs. Walker
Greenwood, B. C. Canada
Jan/Feb/June? 24, 1926 (Also filed as No Date)
Box 28, Jaffa, Palestine
My dear Walker:
I don’t know if you have ever read carefully what Jesus said to the women who were following Him, weeping as He went to the cross. "Weep not for me, but for your children, for there time will come when they shall say, Blessed is the womb that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck."
These words describe conditions for the wicked world, when He will take vengeance on them for the blood they shed of all the Anointed of God. You can see today, all over the world, people trying to control birth because of present economic conditions; but the words of Jesus show that it will be much more real, when Tribulation begins, and war, famine, pestilence and plagues are cutting them off by the 1000's around us daily.
You can read Psalms 91 and see the conditions there; those who are in the Secret Place, or have ears to hear, will be under the wings of Jehovah for protection and provision; but the same wing has two sides—one with soft feathers for the young brood under his wings, and the mighty swoop of His power to destroy His enemies.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John gives 4 sides of Jesus’ work; Matthew represents Jesus as the Lion to the Tribes of Judah, which means those who have not been of the Priests or religious people in the eyes of the world, but rather their enemies, as Jesus was to the Scribes and Pharisees of His day.
You know that Jesus could never have been a priest or Levite, because he was not of that tribe; and not only that, but being born of a VIRGIN, so that they said he was a bastard, made Him, forever, and them enemies.
And if you want to see His Lion-like words, read what He said to the great, holy people of his day in Matthew 23, which will be fulfilled to the very letter for all who are looked upon as priests and preachers, etc. of all sorts. And if you want to get the other side, see what He had to say to His few, humble, hated, despised followers—ignorant Disciples. And you will see the Lamb of God heart to such today and the lion growl, and face, and claw, and paw of the Lion of Judah, and see which you would be found amongst.
Matthew 24 gives a little glimpse of what He is going to give and what we see them getting today. BUT DON’T LET THE LION GROWL BE YOUR COMFORT, but listen to the tender Lamb of God heart and see what He is going to give the Scribes and Pharisees in the whole world, till there is not one left. He has been long-suffering and giving them all plenty of notice and warning why. People are so fond of long faces, preaching, names, and prayers. And clothes and high steeples and titles, that they become easy victims to the Devil; and the more of this they have, the surer they will come down and be cast into Hell; prepared, for them turning this world into a Hell for his humble Disciples of all ages.
We have been so long fooled by all sorts of religious rubbish, that we think Jesus is for them and against us; but notice all thru the Gospel, He was always for the poor outcasts--rejected, broken hearted sinner people. But only the words of woe and cursing, for the religious leaders, and their followers of His day and such He is today.
When you grasp the meaning of these things I write to you, and which you can read in the book, it will put backbone into you, and comfort hope and cheer and assurance in your heart and mind forever, and when the world sees a few humble people who have ears to hear, saved from all these things, which are coming to destroy the proud, wicked oppressors of men in every sense, they will give ear and share the deliverance and provision of Jesus for all who will hear the 2 Witnesses and gather to Jerusalem where the Ark of Safety is, and which will be like the soft feathers under His Almighty Wing.
You will find it good to talk about these things to your children; while they may not understand, it gives something to think about. As a boy, I thought and wondered about times and things of this sort. Don’t measure His great love and power, protection and provisions by your own thoughts and way. Or others’ but see what He has promised to others who have ear to hear, and you will find it helpful today, as well as, fill the future full of sunshine for you.
Best Love,
William Irvine
Wm. Irvine’s Letter To: Edwards
March 5, 1926
Jerusalem, Palestine
My dear Wm., Rose and Co:
I was glad to see the 3 letters from that and which prove you are all in fair shape again after the "flu." I can well understand the value of your drive and visit to the dam. There is nothing like fresh air and sunshine for getting rid of the flu, and you always benefit most with some little exercise in it, when possible. I am also interested in hearing of the whole wheat treatment. What material do they give in liquid form along with wheat?
Mrs. Tulla must show the difference between your friendship and fellowship and that of "Mrs. Sand Tongue," who seems the limit to foolishness in reading the Book. But no matter what they are, all who are looking back to the Alpha advent are in the same fix and under the same delusion, and I see no hope for any, apart from the Living Message. This is the Testimony of the whole Book, as well as our experience, and it’s good to see another sample in Mrs. Tulla, for it must be like life from the dead to her.
I enclose one from Mary McGregor, a sister worker to James Cooke, which may act as an antidote to Mrs. Tulla. James had sent her seven of my letters to some of the people, and most were pretty strong and up to date. I’m not sure if it can be the best thing, till there is evidence of hunger, especially, in those who profess. But it can do us no harm. But what an old carcass it has become. They seem to fail to see its degeneracy, compared to what they once knew it to be; but bread, butter, ease, honor and a little flattery in place and power go a long way with most of them, and it’s too like asking the opinion of the pig, as to the value of the pearl.
We did not always know what "pearl" really meant. But Matthew 7 is very clearly for the End of Days, for there are 2 seeds spoken of all through the chapter. So that while it applies at the end of Testimony days in Alpha times, it’s meaning is even more today. The Judges and the Judged. Those who want to take out the motes, while a beam is in theirs—both describe, very well, conditions. Pearls and that which is holy, reveal very clearly, the dog and pig. The mote may be there, and very small, which they make so much of, but the beam, or log, leaves them no hope, even to see clearly how to take the mote out.
Ask, seek and knock is not unneeded for our encouragement in coming in contact with such blind judges, etc., who will get bread and fish from Him as sure as we will get stone and serpent from our blind, hypocritical judgers and accusers.
Stones and serpent are both very descriptive of what we notice comes from the whole Pharisee family. If we, then, being naturally prone to evil, give good gifts, how much more Him, who is naturally good, will give us what is good for us. But the corrective for one evil, is in doing to others what we would have them do to us; which makes us qualify for being worthy of His good gifts. "If ye, being evil," hits the holy people very hard, and shows that all yielding to our own human nature in our dealings with others is apt to be evil. The giving side of our own nature is evil, while the sense of what we need and desire from others is good, or the nearest approach possible to it. Hence the "Love God and thy neighbor as thyself" has more in it, than we suspect, which also reveals the need for living by faith, and our attitude to our neighbor, the proof of our faith. And it’s not dependent on our neighbor, but on what we would like him to be to us, which puts us free from our own evil nature and his also. Like a path, we may call it "The King’s Highway"—not leaning to our own or being influenced by our neighbor; and being independent on each other, like a fence on both sides, and God giving us according to our walk in heart and life. You can see how much we may ask, seek, and knock and how little He can give, because we are influenced by our own nature, or the nature of others, which puts us outside the worthy sphere.
This gives us a peep at the wickedness of the world and its total demoralization today. This is the law written in our hearts, given by Moses, and the whole Gospel or witness of God in all time. Revealing the effects of taking the Devil’s wisdom, as did Adam and Eve, and as all human unregenerates have done in all ages. You can see Cain doing to his brother, what he would not like done to him. You also get a glimpse of the fatality which took place, when pride and iniquity brought down the Devil and his angels, causing them to be reserved in chains of darkness, which darkness is the light which the world calls "light."
Well to yourself, and ill to your neighbor; and find an excuse in his sins, while you either don’t see yours, or claim their forgiveness on self-righteous grounds. Do these considerations not make clearer than ever the Straight Gate and Narrow Way, and the Wide Gate and Broad Way of our own human, and others’ human ways, words and works? And how absolutely it cuts us off from God and the fulfillment of all His promises and gifts. For good gifts can’t be given to evil children, who walk in their own selfishness in the things of God; and how sure are His gifts to those who are, thus, givers to others of what they would like to receive from their brother. And how happy are they, who have been counted worthy to be victims of the wicked, evil-hearted seed in name of God.
Does this not throw light on what follows in verse 15? Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. Their very unrighteousness is thorns and thistles to others, or the fruits of their own iniquity, or evil nature, and illustrated to perfection in Matthew 23. "Ye shall know them by their fruits," whether it’s Cain fruit, the common fruit of all false prophecy, saying and doing to others what they would not like said to them or done to them. The fruit of their own thoughts, words, and actions in name of God, which is contrary to all law and all Gospel.
You see how it’s bound to drive out the whole seed of God, and also, the honest sinner can’t stand it; so they stand in the sinner’s way and sit in the seat of the scorner toward all Godly counsel, etc. A good tree that does to others what they would like others to do to them, cannot bring forth corrupt fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. How deep the roots are in both. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Therefore, by their fruits ye shall know them.
So, we are well off to have been their victims, and know they are hewn down and cast into the fire and all being burned, which gives the smoke, heat and smell. What follows reveals how many say and do not the will of the Father in Heaven, as given in our attitude to others; and no matter what they do, or the fruit they profess to have of sacrifice, they can never be known of God, and must perish, and the house they have built be their tomb. How sweet and deep it becomes today.
Best love in Him,
William Irvine
P.S. What a luxury to have the Man, by whom men can be assured that what they do to him is done as unto Jesus. A simple, practical way of testing the fruit of the trees. And you can see how the Prodigal and Good Samaritan story brings out this truth; And probably prophetic of all who will be made the stone of stumbling and rock of offense.
All day, I was thinking about what Paul says—For a good man, some would even dare to die. [Romans 5:7]. The highest sacrifice possible to all human nature. But the very opposite pole by which men are tested as to being partakers of the nature of Him, who loved the sinner and ungodly, when, without strength, He died for the ungodly; showing that our attitude as Sons of God can only be tested by that towards the weakest and most ungodly sinner. To love the good men, at their best, is no proof of having the nature and life, and love of God. Hence, the need for Mary being the bigger sinner than the harlot, and Jesus most hopeless of all men, so far as finding a place in the Kingdom of God. But what shame He bore that He might reveal the hearts of those who did to others what they would not like done to them. And at the end of days, and in the evening’s cool, is and has been chosen as the very best time, which simply means the Omega Days. All of which reveals a real wealth in our lot, which the world can neither give, nor take away. I hope you enjoy it all as much as I have done in writing it.
W. I.
Wm Irvine’s Letter To: Bob Lauchlin, Jr.
March 17, 1926
Jerusalem, Palestine
My dear Bob:
I was glad to have yours today and hear of your movements and pleased to hear you had an edifying time at Liverpool, which is the mark of all true fellowship, rather than upsetting and hurtful, which always comes from our human nature, which is evil. Jesus said, "If ye, being evil or selfish and human-centered, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give gifts to those who ask Him." We can only be safe when we do to others what we would desire them to do to us. This is the nearest we can ever know of what pleases Him, and is the truest expression of the Law written on our hearts. Not what comes from our own nature nor what comes from others’ could desire for ourselves, which is 1ike a reflection of the nature and heart of God. Only when this guides us can we expect Him to hear when we ask, seek, and knock; so that our neighbor is like a looking glass to us when used in this sense. Read Matt. 7 very carefully and you will get much light on the reason why all wickedness which proceeds from selfish human nature shuts the, heart of God, His lips, hands, and cuts off His power from the whole creation, so that the only hope is for the Wicked to cease, and the Sons of God come to inherit the Earth, and reign in Righteousness which will make it possible for Him and His creation to enjoy the harmony which men call peace and prosperity.
To love God and our neighbor as ourselves is the key to the whole Book, but all attempts to do the half is only delusion and a snare, which cuts off from God and robs the world of His power and blessing. Pride and iniquity, which is the expression of angel-created selfishness revealing it's fall and rejection by God, so that they have become deceivers (Devils), Adversaries (Satanic) and destroyers (as Appolyon. Then this is found in any creature of God it can only be a Non-conductor on both sides, in refusing to meet the needs of God on the one side, and man's on the other. It's like a blocked-up chimney, ventilator, window, pipe, or channel. That was meant: for our safety and comfort, becomes the means of our death and destruction. And as ignorance of what's wrong does not save people from the consequences in the natural, so in the Spiritual. And I fear that even the Children of God often fail to see where the danger lies in their own human nature becoming their guide and control in place of the desires which they have as to what others should be to them. This is an unchanging, never-failing guide to us in all things. Just as sure as our selfish natural desires are a constant source of trouble and danger, and robbing us of the value of all our prayers, which can never be answered when iniquity or pride of heart are ruling us.
"Ask, seek, knock" is given in conjunction with "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye unto them." This ends all our judging of others and measuring out, and mote-finding, and saves us from being dogs, hogs, goats, swine, and ravening wolves in sheep’s clothing; or trees with thorns and thistles preaching in His Name; casting out devils and doing many wonderful works, but never being known of God. Which is the only righteousness that will count in that great day. This is the reason why Paul says Charity never faileth, and is the only reliable mark in any man’s life and work. It’s human charity to do to others what we would have them do to us, which always gets the Seal of His Spirit, which is the Love of God shed abroad in our hearts—true righteousness and proof of His knowing us. These things we have been familiar with, but not grasped very clearly, and hold as the foundation of all our dealings with God and man. The sin that doth so easily beset us, is that of being guided by our own or other's expressed nature, rather than the desire we or they have from each other. "Tit for tat," – "do to others what they do to you," and many other world sayings are too common and yet only rob us of all the privileges which God meant us to have in our dealings with men in their various conditions. And how deeply it touches our whole life desires, thoughts, words, actions, habits and character with dismay. And we don't wonder at all the lack of usefulness to God and man, when we see how slow we have been in the school from birth up to now. But I suppose that’s only the sunshine taking the place of the moonlight which has made it possible. For all Alpha First Advent Truth had only been moonlight compared to the Omega Second Advent. And all it means for the whole world for the Sons of God Advent with their King to reign and rule for 1000 years will be characterized by the great mark; just as wickedness in the past has been due to every angel and man doing to others what they were done to. You see how Michael the Archangel durst not bring railing accusation against Satan when contending-for the body of Moses.
I’m sure you will find much true comfort and encouragement from meditation on these things and you may find "ask, seek, knock" may have more meaning and value for you and others as you put it into practice in all your dealings with men of all classes; in all Your dealings with men of all classes. For whether we give men the gay or the grave ego, it only robs them and us of what is the greatest thing in the world, Charity which never faileth.
Best love to all,
Wm. Irvine
P.S. This is the law of Love, human and divine, and a safeguard against
all evil from within and without with friends or foes, and is the sum total
of all law and Gospel, and that of the kingdom expounded in Matthew 5,
6, and 7, which is to be set up, and in which He is to come and dwell,
and by which he is to rule as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And His
ambassadors world wide will be controlled by this, in contrast to the selfish
pride (vanity), because He can never own it, or
honor it. You can work it out a little further for yourself, and you
will find it a very full, fresh, flowing stream of life, love, and liberty
with Mercy and power such as we never dreamed of. But it must be extended
to all men indiscriminately as the Law of our life, which we can be sure
of
having His protection, as well as His ear, and power for blessing and
cursing wherever manifested. This explains much of His longsuffering towards
men. W. I.
Wm. Irvine’s Letter To: Skerritts
November 26, 1926
Jerusalem, Palestine
My dear Bob and Minnie,
Was glad to have yours yesterday with cheery news, for nothing can please Him that don’t affect us who have His Spirit. And it ought to affect the whole woman body, who are being chosen as the jewels, which are to be foundations, gates, and great and high walls of the new Jerusalem. Jasper, clear as crystal, is one of the things which stand out clearly; which would indicate the quality and marks of those who will be the foundation of the new thing. And the last verse of Revelation 21 shows that nothing that defileth, or worketh abomination, or maketh a lie shall enter in. So you see what is useful, and what will be shut out; and the walls are such as no thief or robber shall climb over this time. People must be very blind and heartless, who don’t see that I gave the last of the Alpha gospel, which prepared the way for my giving the Omega message; which now is the witness of the Spirit, by which alone people can get either life or live in the Spirit. And the uniform testimony from all who have tried both, is that the Alpha had ceased to give them the quickening it used [to]; and now they have found the Omega Message do(es) what the Alpha Message used to do.
All the gospels begin with the Alpha first coming, from birth till you see Him ascend to His throne, and the seal come on them of the Holy Ghost. The end of each gospel tells, in parable, the Omega message: concerning His second coming and our gathering together unto Him - which must be Jerusalem, for there is no question about where He is coming to. The fact that this truth was given in parable shows that the disciples could not understand it. Nor was it meant to be clearly grasped till the short period at the end had come, and the Reader and Ovecomer be given the 12 star crown as head of the woman, and the gathering power of that body; clothed with the sun - the living light, love begetting spirit - and the moon under her feet.
The Alpha Gospel finished, and the Omega beginning to shine through as the inward desire and purpose of seeing the man child brought forth, was begotten in them by the omega truth. While the great red dragon stands for all that has taken place in the past in Jerusalem, the woman and child stand for all that’s about to take place; and Michael and his angels are for us, as the dragon and his angels are against us. The very Alpha coming that the Devil was so much against, has now become his instrument in resisting the Omega. Just as the scribes and Pharisees used Moses to fight against Jesus, so the scribes and Pharisees of today use Jesus the Alpha to war against Jesus as Omega.
The parables of Matthew 20-25 give us the whole conflict, and the various steps in Omega work in the same order we have them in Revelation. The laborers in the vineyard give us exactly the Testimony conditions, and attitude towards those who are given the new things for today. The last has become the first, and the first the last: "for many be called, but few chosen" surely describes the experience we have had in the Testimony people. The fact that the Zebedee mother introduces the setting of her sons on the right [and left], also gives us added proof that it refers to the 2 witnesses; and that they knew a little about the kingdom that would be set up, but had no vision. I can give you my cup to drink, and baptism of suffering to be baptized with: but it’s not mine to give, but it shall be given for whom it’s prepared of my Father. And you can see, even in the fact that the ten were moved with indignation towards James and John, that the question of the 2 Witnesses would beget something of the same spirit in our ten brethren: which probably means all of them.
Then He speaks about the princes of the Gentiles rule over them - the natural conception of ruling. But it’s the one who is slave and chief is to be servant, not the master. Then the 2 blind men are used as a picture of how people are to get their eyes opened to these things. And we fear there is little chance of people getting to see, who do not recognize they are blind and cry for mercy, and find compassion in getting their eyes opened.
Eleventh hour, standing idle - no man hath hired us, or needs us, is very like the spirit of the Testimony towards us. The day is the Alpha day of the gospel, and the eleventh hour - the last chance which we got and took. And our reward is getting the Omega first; and you see the envy and jealousy of those whose ideas of themselves was a stumbling block to them. Every man a penny, shows that the Omega Gospel will be a common gift offered to all; and no preference except to the least, last becoming the first.
Matthew 21, Jesus riding into Jerusalem on the ass and the colt no doubt, has reference to the work of the 2 witnesses. Then the casting out of the thieves and robbers out of the temple. The cursing of the fig tree (the Alpha gospel), and it withering to its roots. "How soon is the fig tree withered away!" Then He speaks about if ye have faith, ye shall move mountains, and cast them into the sea. This speaks about the falling away period, and links up with the promise to Jacob the worm. And all things ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive - this is for the falling away period, and the work of the 2 witnesses and the woman.
Then comes the questioners - whence this power and authority? Then the 2 sons, the one who said yes and did not go, and the other that said no, and went; shows the Alpha servants who say "yes," and yet only please themselves; while those who say "no," and do His will. Then the publicans and harlots pressing into the kingdom. And the wicked husbandmen proves it very clearly, and gives us the Testimony preachers who take all the fruit and have nothing for Him. He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and let His vineyard out to other husbandmen, who shall render the fruits in season.
Then the stone of stumbling, rejected by the builders, becomes the head of the corner: which is the Lord’s doing, and marvelous in our eyes. And I’m sure it’s the Lord’s doing, and marvelous in our eyes, that I am where and what I am today. The kingdom is taken from them, and given to a nation (the 144,000) bringing forth the fruits. Showing that neither Jewish nor Christian scribes and Pharisees will have any part in this matter. And they were, and are angry when they hear it. You can wade through and enjoy all the rest till Matthew 25.
Best love in Him to both.
Yours very truly,
Wm. Irvine
Wm. Irvine's Letter to: John & Vina Lauchlin
August 3, 1926
Box 553. P.O.
Jerusalem, Palestine.
My Dear John, Vina, wee Jessie & Co:
Many thanks for yrs of (no date). It's good to hear of all your various movings & talks, which help to spend the time profitably. Act III,& Joel is rather dangerous stuff for it includes the whole of what we expect will take place in the finishing up of the old & setting up the Kingdom. But taken with Rev, which supplies the details it's safe. And mean-time it's wise to make room for the reader to guide us in what the spirit saith unto the churches, & get as solid as we can on all that's revealed, rather than take any liberties which always opens the door for the devil confuse & make a fantazmagoria of the truth. It's somewhat difficult to catch the amount of Bolshivism. Which fills the whole atmosphere these days through the strike. But the contrast between what was once the foundation of human industry & all the up in the air talk that passes for wisdom today, we are apt to forget that the bottomless pit has been opened & out of it has come all that we find blinding & stirring up all sorts of trouble & discontent.
While the great fact remains that destruction & starvation is the back ground, which people think very far off, as they feed on the ideality which marks all that one can see & hear. Russia has been full of idealism these past 9 years, but it has also been full of destruction, tyranny, & oppression & starvation such as the world has never seen before. & this is what's working in G.B. these days & the chief stimulant for the strike. The coal commission did much to feed the discontent & focus all eyes on what's ideal, & blind them to the plain near facts, & don't forget that the chairman was a Jew & wherever you find a Jew expect cursing to follow no matter how good it looks. They are the chief source of the cursing which has been let loose on humanity these days & we don't expect they will do more than fill the world full of all sorts of big Ideals, which are not in the power of men or Governments to fulfill. They have filled Palestine full of people with Zionist Ideals, but many of them are hungry & out of work today, & some try to solve it by suicide, so don't let them give you too much dope.
The workers of the world are not going to have better times yet, but rather the worst they have ever had. When neither men, master nor Governments will be able to give them the bread they need. The new things we have been having are not the new things, but the conditions for the destruction for the whole wicked world. The wickedness of the working class are harder to see through than that of the owners, or Government. & all will find the curse ere long & wonder what they are up against, so it's good to be sober & sane in the midst of these awful conditions, which mark the course of events on the whole earth today, & this is one of the values of His name & truth which is ours to speak of & hope in.
Best love in Him.
Wm. Irvine
Wm. Irvine's Letter to: Harry Carson, Longston, Staffs, England
November 14, 1926
P.O. Box.553
Jerusalem, Palestine.
My Dear Carsons,
Many thanks for yours and P.O.O. Glad you enjoy meeting and talking one with another, and see what's going on from His throne. Tho men can't see beyond the instrument, and victims fall around us. 7 years ago I came here on 27th Nov., and began to watch and witness, and during these yrs 41 million deaths have taken place by war, famine, quakes, and Pestilence, which means that 6 times more have died by the signs Jesus said wld take place in Divers places, which because they are scattered over the earth are scarcely noticed. But it's 4 times more than died in the great War (so called), and 6 times more than have died by war during those 7 years. But only the signs of the greater destruction at hand since Armistice Day.
We have had revolutionary activity in Russia, Java, Argentine, Ireland, Nicaragua, with troubles of a similar nature in Spain, France, and Italy on their frontier, while in China things are steadily getting worse, specially for the British people every day. Turkey, Russia, Persia, Afghanistan, and Chinese Ambassadors, met in Oddessa on the Black Sea and has caused a good deal of guessing as to their purpose, which many believe to be the foundation of an Asiatic League to counteract the Western League.
The whole world has tasted of high cost of living, then we have had world Bolshivism in many different forms, which has given cold feet and empty stomachs and leaky purses in England, which is a sample of what Russia has got as the mother of the family of destruction on the earth. Whatever Capitalism may be blamed for, it has certainly fed the world and produced more than any other Political or Industrial has done so far. And anybody can criticise father, mother, house, or business, but it's quite another thing to do better under the circumstances. The big majority the Conservative Gov. got at last Election was the 1st blow in the eye which Bolshis got, and the Strike coming to an end is the 2nd, and it may not be the 3rd, for the general strike was proof that Bolshi influences was strong in G.B. and we can see that it's only seeking to destroy what Capitalism has produced.
God made a Garden and made a man, and put him into it, to care for it and it wld care for him. This is private property, and any attempt at Gov in the world on other lines for 6000 yrs has been a failure every time, and Western Capitalism has done more for men on the earth than any other. People may blot God out of all these things, but the principles of the Garden are for all time till He comes with His new seed the meek who are to inherit the earth. The weakness of all the 5 Political Systems is not in the system. But in the selfish human nature, who are expressed in the systems, and it's as common to the Labour side, as to the Capitalistic.
And if we are being privileged to be at the death and burial of the old, I hope we may be privileged to be at the birth of the new, when the Kingdom of God is set up on the earth. And this is where my heart finds rest and peace, hope, cheer, comfort, and strength, and I'm glad that you can share it when so few seem to want it.
Best Love in Him,
Wm. Irvine
Wm. Irvine's Letter to: Edwards
November 26, 1926
Box 553, P.O.
Jerusalem, Palestine
My dear Wm. Rose & Co:
Many thanks for your 2 & cuttings, with news of Ruth, Joe & Sarah. All of which is good, not to speak of George Linn, whom I guess you will have had ere this. 7 years tomorrow since I had my first glimpse of Jer., and tho long its been short in that so many things have been taking place all along to bear witness to our Testy. The war was & is looked upon as The Great Event dwindles into insignificance compared to the loss of life these past 7 years by quake, famine & pestilence in divers places.
If the Spirit of life entering a body gave Adam life; then the spirit ceasing to operate in the world spells death & we are not far out in saying that the war was only the expiring of the old world & these 12 years we have been seeing its slow disintegration in Divers places; for as the body does not disintegrate all at once, so with the earth; and if 1914 was the beginning, we know the whole framework will fall down at the end by the great quake which destroys the cities of the nations. We are not far from being human when we look for the results of death as men very soon see and know that the breaking up follows the outgoing of the spirit. If we regard the world as dead to God & He no longer trying to keep it for the purpose of saving men, then what better can we expect than what has been happening before our eyes. But we need to recognize it in its big and full sense else we may miss much. If the old world died 120 years before the flood; it was only prolonged owing to the need for preparing the ark for the man who had ear to hear God and those who had ears to hear him & this may point to the value of the preparation of the Man & Woman who is to encompass the Man and surely we have learned much these past 7 years, since we saw each other last at Pasadena station; and what a revelation we have had in those who were not part, as truly as we have had many mercies which show who are those who are the Woman, who have cared for the thirsty, hungry, naked, homeless, sick & in prison Man who is being made the Test for sheep & goats for the separation of the nations & revealing of those who have Him in them & express it by their attitude to the Man who reveals what they would have been to Him & His Message.
I am satisfied that those who would not hear ME and MY message would not have heard Him or His Message. If 1/5 part of Noah's life of 600 years was spent in preparing him and them who were in the ark; why think it strange that 1/5 part of MINE should be so spent; 120 into 600 = 5, and 12 into 60 = 5, so there are a few months to spare, as I am 63 and nearing 64. The 12 years from 1914 and the 7 years from my coming here are both Biblical numbers which we can't disregard. Think on the suddenness with which the war followed my being rejected by the Testy, for I can remember getting letters on the same days in which the war was begun which settled the whole matter & even then I told them the coupling of the 2 things together; tho I could not have given them any proof for that lay all ahead & could only be given me as comfort in my suffering; and I can remember well - finding out that the old things had no value for me, no matter how I tried it in preaching, praying, or reading the Book, and not till I began to see the foundation of the new things had I any real joy or comfort; and as soon as I had; I came up to Fullerton to share it with them and very soon found the 2 sides. Those who had ears & those who had not & what evidence we have had these years on both sides to prove our message.
I ate Thanksgiving dinner at the lease with some people who were not in The Testy but who had enjoyed being at the meeting the night before. How many are dead who had their chance & trifled with it & I'm sure all have had enough of either blessing or cursing these years to grasp its importance if they would only think for a moment. Think on the poisoned spirit & the iniquity & hypocrisy which swept The Testy as truly as the war produced it in the whole world. Then the words and works in each have been added proof of the death which took place and the loosing of the wicked one in Testy & world setting them at each others throats to destroy, rather than save; for that is the mark of the whole.
See how Ireland which had been as the Garden of God to The Testy & people was turned into a desert; so far as Testy was concerned & also its material condition. If death, & disintegration is not evidenced in children to the oldest today, what can explain the condition which everybody deplores & cries out about. Why the desire to return to normalcy if they don’t recognize the death & disintegration going on, why all the prophets crying out that we are going from bad to worse, only to be dubbed pessimists. Why the cry of lawlessness, crime, pleasure loving & general folly. Why short & low dressing & bobbing, powdering, puffing, fighting & squabbling, increase of murder, suicide and all sorts of death dealing providences. Think on the material loss in gold & all other values, not to speak of the 60 million deaths by war, famine, pestilence & quakes. Why the war debts which hang around the necks of the people producing high cost of living & all sorts of complexes which make people tired, worried, & wearied & care-worn, neuresthenics which medical world say is the most dangerous of present disease conditions. Why birth control, prohibition, Bolshi & social unrest. To see these things as the proof of death having taken place help us rather than to look on them as the signs of what’s coming.
Its dead not dying, and if there had been a few more righteous people it might have been delayed. But our experience has proved that there were about as few now as there was in Noah's day or Lot's day, and as we see the carcass disappearing by the Eagles in divers places it only shows how thorough the work will be by what we have had in the past. You know the feeling that people have when someone has been taken by death. They can't believe it & in many cases it takes long to accept it as a fact accomplished. All the bigness is as much proof of death as are the lower who are being ground down more than ever; for the eugenic sons of God & daughters of men who produced giants & men of renown filled the earth with violence so that even that the high ideals & big speeches & organizations, etc. are proof that we are as in Noah's death days for the worlds.
Only those who have life can watch & see the signs of decay in the dead. So its a good mark that we can so watch its vanishing, and as the only hope is Resurrection for those who see dust going to dust, so our eyes are centered on the New Thing which is being prepared by which the resurrection of the dry bones is to be wrought, but we can't loose sight of the need for preserving a living seed that may be the instrument, and this divides pretty well both Ezek., & also Isa. from the 40th chaps. So we are looking still & surer for all our 7 years watch that the disintegration will be completed and the Restitution of All that’s of God wrought out in His own good & perfect way.
Best love to all there,
Yours truly in Him,
Wm. Irvine
William Irvine’s Letter To: Frank & Jenny Presbury
December 7, 1926
Jerusalem, Palestine
My dear Frank, Jenny & Co:
I was more than pleased with your letter and photo, which makes it more intelligible—our correspondence. Glad to hear of your wife’s desire to help you by deliverance. There’s nothing that can be bought today in the world which can be of the least service to you in these matters. Nor was there ever such a way of doing the Lord’s work in all ages.
Freely ye have received, freely give was His message to his disciples on this matter and He has not changed His mind or ever will. So it’s not hard to know what’s of the devil, for all seek their own and not the things that are Jesus Christ’s. Paul had to write of those who were false professors and false prophets. I am just as sure as I write, that if I tried to sell His truth or Message, or you to buy it, It could not be got for the Spirit would not give me, or give you understanding of what I would write and the light you might get would only be darkness such as fills the whole world. When and what God hides, who can see or find? He has hid the things which He gave to His own of all ages from the wise and prudent, who always have sought to buy and sell the truth of God.
I wrote Mrs. Walker tonight some on Malachi III: 15-17. You can see what’s happened to the world by the 15th verse, but what a contrast in the 16th! How intimate it is! It’s like a lover speaking to his sweetheart and the very best picture we can have of what He desires in us is what a fond lover expects from his love. She never tires of speaking of him and thinking on his name in-between. Name just stands for all he is known to be to her and fear of the Lord is best grasped by the attitude of a true wife towards her expected husband. And sweethearts all love to speak of their lovers to others who have the same passion when they meet, for who else can understand lovers but those who are in love?
You will find the very best way to understand the whole of the truth of God, on any point, comes best through human parallels and parables. For all human life is but type of things spiritual and eternal. Even divorce is only proof that love never did truly exist and union under all trials and conditions only proves true love. An absent lover would greatly enjoy hearing his love say, and more, what she thought about him and all that concerns him and his life and work, so the Lord of Hosts, who is over mobs, nations and continents, loves to hear what we say and think about Him and His world these days, when we speak one with another. And so there is a record kept. They shall be mine in that day when I make up my Jewels (which is now), for He is making up, or gathering, His jewels around the Manchild when he is the least, like the babe in the midst of the Woman of Revelation XII, who is to be brought forth as the Manchild to rule all nations with a rod of iron and dash them in shivers as clay vessels are, when smitten with an iron rod; and when the work is finished, to be caught up to God on His throne.
The part I wish to emphasize most is, I will spare them as a man spares his own son that serveth him. So your 3 lovely children can help to make this plain. You know how you can’t help loving your son and what dreams parents have for their children’s future; but for one that serveth them in the way they want, what love, care and interest you can have in such. This is the picture given here and you cannot strain it. (I will spare him) Who would not spare such a son and what does spare mean but that He will not test you beyond what you can stand and care for your interests as much as you care for Him.
We have been polluted by all sorts of false professions, which He could not honour, till it’s hard to find those who will so love and honour Him, that He can honour them. You little dream of the possibilities of your meetings, talking and thinking these days and I pray you be as hot and sincere as you were in your lovemaking, so that He can honour you as never people have been honoured in all time. For such is your privilege and this is the purpose for which I exist as His servant. And under the condition here, when you have a wife and children and a simple life where you have the very best conditions, and you can use them as guides to help you into the love activity in Him, which He delights to honour, just as surely as His wrath will wreak His vengeance on all the hypocrisy and empty professors who talk love and walk in their own iniquity.
I don’t ask you to be angels, but just plain people with a sincere heart interest in all He is doing on the earth. And don’t be afraid to speak out and interest yourself in all that’s His work on the earth. You will find the spirit of God shed abroad His love in your heart and give you great understanding and vision of all that He has done, is doing and going to do. Only keep simple, sincere and honest towards Him, for you know how He must be sick of all else. I will spare him as a man that spareth his own son that serveth him. Let the spirit of God give you the fullest meaning of this in your heart of hearts and you can be sure of it as if it were written history, for His promises are all Yea and Amen to those who are His Jewels.
Best Love and Thanks,
Yours very truly in Him,
William Irvine
Wm. Irvine's Letter To: Mrs. Lilian Walker
73,John St.,Hanley,Stoke-on-Trent
From: PO Box.553 Jerusalem,Palestine.
7th Dec.,1926
My Dear Mrs Walker,
Many thanks for yours. Glad you have the privilege of friendship and fellowship with so many there. For the Bronchial boy, give him a tablespoonful of lemon juice 6 times a day, pour it over his throat if possible, feed him dry food and not to much slops, wash chest and shoulders every day with cold water, and not too much soap, teach him to hold head up, shoulders back and breathe deep, put your knee between his shoulders high up and pull his shoulders back gently but firmly every day once, and let him run in the open air as much as possible, and dont talk of his trouble or pamper him to much. Fruit and vegetables, bread and butter shd be his food, and under no circumstances give him potato. Brown bread is better than white,& not much sweet stuffs at any time, even sugar in tea is better scarce than plentiful.
People are very apt to think that when we say the Lord will be a father to the fatherless, a husband to the widow, this has been so often and much in the mouths of the false prophets, and never fulfilled, that one is apt to read it in the same sense. But we are not as they or theirs were. But are as Malachi describes the jewels being chosen out of the whole world. And you will do well to read and ponder over it very carefully. For its the most important love letter you ever read. If you are to be part of that few being gathered out as the seed from which the Gospel is to be preached in Omega days. If you grasp whats written here you will find it meet your needs in a way nothing else can do, never mind the work and labour and drab surroundings of home, children, or factory. For the people whom Jesus gathered around Him were not favoured in the eyes of men, or by their natural surroundings, nor had they education or privileges greater or as great as those around them. Its the heart attitude to Him the King who sits on His Throne with all power that counts.
V.15 shows what the world are and get. V.16. shows the heart conditions He wants. They that feared the Lord. Just fear such as a woman wld have of a good loving husband, spake often one to another (of what was in their hearts).Just as a loving wife wld speak of her loving husband. And the Lord hearkened. Its true that He that sits on the throne, wld deign to listen to your conversation, and write it in a book of rememberance (lest He forget) and so that He may have proof that there are some even to-day, who consider who He is, and who honour Him in days, when everything and person is used to honour devils and men, of all sorts and sizes.
No lover ever was more jealous,or more comforted in a woman, whose heart was His, than Jesus is today towards those who speak sincerely of who and what He is doing as Judge of all men on the earth. To fear the Lord and think on His name as Judge of all the earth, is the one thing by which He knows our heart attitude to Him, which is the greatest thing in the world. They who so love and express it, shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts, who is over all the earth, nations and men. In that day, when I make up my jewels or when the marriage of the Kings Son takes place on the earth, when He comes from Heaven. And I will spare them (these days until He comes) as a man spares His own son who serveth him.
Now let these things into your heart, and let them work in it all the time, even as when you were in love with your husband before marriage. You will find the Spirit of God make you alive, and give colour to all your trials and troubles, which will become as nothing in comparison. You need not think or trouble about the past nor the future, when you have a lover whose love is constant, true and all power in Heaven and earth, and the Judge of all men. Tho the world around know him not or care for, or think on His Name. He is all I have and want or care for, or hope in, you cant overdo it, and you will find few who care to hear of it,but the few who meet to enjoy, chatting over the things, which He loves to hear.
You will see the value of talking over all the things, which He is doing in Judgment on the world, and all the things which He witnesses to by His man, tho the least amongst men, is the man by whom He is testing people these days. In as much as ye did, or did it not to Him (the least of these my brethren) Ye did or did it not to me. So you can see how much depends on your attitude towards me, which is the only test there is in the world to-day, by which men can be tested, and the reason I am where and what I am, its a very human, but one which makes the whole matter very simple and real, and I am sure you will find many marks, which will convince you if you truly and sincerely put it to the test.
Dont think about yourself, good, bad or indifferently, think about Him and me His Servant, and what He is doing and what I am reading to you and you will find that He has much in store for you, that you can never dream of. The days will pass lighter, and more joyous in heart, your difficulties He will share. Labour will be lighter, and fellowship sweeter, and you will have plenty to feel, think and say also, only speak out of a pure heart sincerely. Pure heart simply means the same kind of heart to Him, that every man expects from the woman he loves, one, only, always, altogether, other things will all come right. If you love Him, as He loves you only, always, first, last, and best, and such is my desire for all who gather there.
Best Love in Him.
Wm. Irvine.
Love never makes excuses, or lets things stand in the way, of declaring and showing it. There never has been any person, who cld get so much out of loving, as those who love Him. W.I.
Wm. Irvine’s Letter to: Bob Lauchlin,
Adderly Terrace, Longton,
Staffs, Eng.
December 17, 1926
From: Box 553 P.O.
Jerusalem, Palestine.
My Dear Bob,
Many thanks for yours, and parcel. The belts are very good in construction, and even better than those which used to go round the whole body. Tho its good to protect the liver from chill, which is as important as the kidneys. The drawers and vest method of clothing, which is common to England, is better for warmth than the U.S.A. method of having combinations, which are cooler and more comfortable to wear, where there is real disease of the kidneys. I would think a piece of tweed wld be good, or a piece of chamois in windy weather. But I'm feeling fine and benefited by the book, which Ivor sent me on foodfruit and Lemon juice.
We lost 15% of our orange crops last week, which means 200,000 cases of 100 less for Eng. So you see what a few days can do, when the wind blows, or the weather freezes such as I have seen in California, when one night wld cut down the crop at any rate from 20% to 80%. But they have heating apparatus there, which they don’t here, so that when ever zero weather threatens, they turn on the heat, by lighting crude oil lamps, which fill the air with smoke for miles around.
Genesis 24 has been very full this week of good things, and I give you a little sample, which you can multiply by your own oil or salt. The difference between oil and salt is that oil is only good for giving light, whereas salt is good for protecting you from the corrupting influence of your own ways and thots, and also of those around us. We always suffer from the want of clear definition of the difference between sin and wickedness. The former of which is less deceptive than the latter, for only a fool can mistake sin for righteousness, while wickedness never seems to be anything but righteousness in our own and others eyes. So salt I take it is more meant for the Spirit of God in us, which keeps us from the wicked one, and His seed influences.
Abram was old and well stricken in yrs, like the world, and the Lord
had blessed them in all things, surely the world has been blessed in all
things for 6000 yrs. Abram said to the eldest servant of his house, who
ruled over all that he had, and who had been thot by all to be his heir.
Matt. 24 helps here, put your hand under my thigh, so that he could detect
if his servant was true in his swearing. For had he not, Abram wld have
felt the impulse at once, better than if he had been holding his pulse,
or looking in his face. V.3. Swear by the Lord God of Heaven and earth,
as you see in Rev.4-5, that thou wilt not take a wife of the Caananites,
the wicked seed of the land, which shows how He does not want any Caananite
in the woman body, no matter how fair they may look. V.4 But thou shalt
go into my country & kindred and take a wife unto my Son Isaac, whom
God had given to take the place of Eliezer. V.5 If the woman won’t come,
will I take Isaac there. NO. Beware thou lest thou take my son thither,
which gives us no room for compromise in the matter today, and makes sure
that Jesus will not come to take His bride out of the world, as so many
fools say.
II Thess 2, note also V. 8 of Gen. 24 V.6 The Lord God shall send His
angel before thee in this matter, and thou shalt a wife from thence. Abram
heard the voice of the Lord, the woman, the voice of the servant, which
gives us present day conditions, the reader and hearers. This gives us
some idea of the part Michael and his angels play in gathering the woman
round the man, and protecting him from his enemies. V.6. If the woman whom
you ask come not, then thou shalt come not, then thou shalt be clear from
thy oath, showing my part in the matter, and which I have always felt I
have no use for any other relationship to people than the one main issue.
V.7. And the servant swear, and you notice no time was lost in making a
practical start with camels and gifts, on the 600 mile desert march, which
is never mentioned, seeing all other things are of little account and ordinary.
V.10-14. He makes the camels to kneel by the well, and prays in his heart,
and makes the conditions which no doubt the Lord inspired. There was to
be no forced services or trickery, straight forward human activities in
line with the conditions of the people, time, and country. And it came
to pass that Rebecca (a noose reminding us of snares), the daughter of
Betherel (a man of God), whom Mileah (counsel) bore to him. He was the
son of Nahor (snorter). No doubt referring to his attitude to Abram, when
he went west following the voice.
Rebecca came to the well (where water was to be had) with her pitcher on her shoulder. I have noticed how very easy it is to fill a pitcher when it is empty, and purposed to be filled, with water from the spring well. The damsel was very fair to look upon. I have noticed many come who tell you of their large experiences in the religious world makes them very unattractive and hopeless. A virgin not known of man. See the similar marks in Rev.14, how hopeless people are who have been filled up with the Harlot ways, and interpretation, and we are glad always to find virgin soil to hear the words of life. She went down a very important matter for most people. And filled her pitcher sizes differ, but the going down and filling, and came up to where the servant was (and he was an old man) comparatively speaking. And the servant ran to meet her. Another mark. How glad one is to see those who bear the marks, which the Angel and the Lord have made so clear, as those of the woman, who is to be His bride. Isaac means (laughter), which helps to give us a link with Ps. 2. He that sitteth shall laugh, quite a test for a proud hearted damsel even in the East. But the best way to reveal the Spirit of those who are the woman, and seen in the willingness to write me, rather than me write them.
And she said, drink my Lord or master, and she hasted no delay, and let down her pitcher where he cld drink. Another nice point, I have noticed in those who bear marks, its easy and refreshing to hear from them, and when done she said I will draw water for thy camels, until they are done drinking. There was willingness to be useful in the whole matter, and all the time, the servant was wondering if this was the answer and this woman to his long anxious journey, and when she had proved her worth, after a good many pitchers full had been given to 30 thirsty camels and men. Then came forth the gifts, Earings, or rather a jewel for the forehead, and 2 bracelets of gold. People often wonder why they don’t get the ear and hands for these things of Omega. But you see the reason, and have seen it in many people. Whose daughter art thou?, a very important question in these days. For she was not to be of the Caananites or wicked, whom we know best by what the Lord said was to happen to them, when the Israelites came into the land.
Is there room in thy fathers house for us to lodge in. You see how important it is that people shd be willing to openly confess where they are and what their quest is. I am daughter to the man of God, and counsel, through the grandaughter of old snorter, and you can apply this very widely and wisely, for most people are snorters, and very little chance for them, apart from the man of God and Counsel from God, which are joined together. We have both straw for beds and provinder to eat, enough room to lodge. And the man bowed down himself, and worshipped the Lord, who had made it all possible by His mercy and truth, for I being in the way (along 600 miles of desert track).
The Lord led me to my masters brothers. This couples up well with Matt.25. And the damsel ran and told these things to her mothers house. Then the brotherly welcome, when he saw the jewels on her forehead, and the bracelets, and heard her story. He said, come in thou blessed of the Lord. The servants only reward, and only for a night, for in the morning the start must be made for Isaac, tho the wise old mother’s plea for 10 days to see if she changed her mind, wilt thou I will go with this man. You can make the most of the rest of it. The whole story is full of heart thrills for any who have salt enough to grasp the heart qualities of the servant and Rebecca and the brother, and the future will declare the greater glory of our going to meet our Isaac, in whom the seed of God is to be known. For only in Christ can there be any hope for anyone.
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