Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

Esoteric Fraternity,
Dear Friends:
letters
Portland, Oregon. Dec. 4th, 1916.
I have not known the dearly-beloved Brother and
fraternity friends for so long as many of those who have
learned to love them, but when "Bible Review" arrived,
telling of the passing of the dear Brother, it seemed as
if the sun of the universe had gone down on the world.
Then reason replied,
soul must walk alone."
like afiash from Heaven, "Each
This thought in turn brings the realization of how
much we have unconsciously depended and leaned
him, and the strain of this, with other things, must have
been almost unbearable. For some time each number of
"Bible Review" has brought the feeling that this was
true. He has led us all lovingly up the rocky way and
taught us to walk alone; and it seems to me God saw
that we needed to "learn to climb alone, and that each
become his own pathfinder, and he has therefore taken
our leader away for a little while.
on
How otherwise would
many of us ever become self-reliant, and able to help
others in the same manner that he has done?
If the shock was so
great to a little one, away on the
outskirts of the assembly, who has known him only thru
the printed pages, how infinitely greater must be the
loss to those who have been his constant companions!
The Esoteric Fraternity is as a light-house built upon
ahigh rock, and standing out into the black, stormy, midnight
sea. Brother Butler built it there years ago, and