AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Anticipating the story of The Berean Expositor a little, we refer the reader to Vols. 2,3 (reprint edition, 1926 p.
113), where correspondence will be found under the initials W.H.G.T. On several occasions W. H. Griffith Thomas
submitted questions, and published the answers given in The Berean Expositor in his own publications. I felt that it
was nothing less than his due that W.H.G.T. should know that the Editor of The Berean Expositor, whose replies he
was treating with such respect, owed something to the lectures that he gave immediately after the Gospel campaign
at Exeter Hall. We reproduce his letter in reply.
Telephone
26 Park Road,
North 4841.
Toronto.
January 3rd 1913
`Dear Sir,
Thank you for yours of December 16. I hope the Editor of the Morning Star will insert something
from you in reply to the passage in question. It is exceedingly interesting to me to have your testimony to
those Exeter Hall Bible Readings in 1900. To God be all the praise. I always read with great interest your
various contributions to Things to Come and The Berean Expositor and I also have your book Dispensational
Truth. I am unable to follow you fully, but I have great sympathy with much that you bring forward.
Yours faithfully,
W. H. Griffith Thomas'.
This is one of five letters received from this fine student of the Word. We will not reproduce them here, but give
one or two excerpts that will show with what intelligent and sympathetic interest W.H.G.T. read the articles in The
Berean Expositor.
Letter dated December 2, 1915, from 72, Spadina Road,
Toronto.
`Thank you very much for yours of Nov. 5 and enclosures. I read all your articles with great interest, and
I am particularly partial to anything in the way of Bible Structures, having learnt to look for those from our
good friend Dr. Bullinger. I shall be glad, if you will send me from time to time, anything that you issue
which does not appear in The Berean Expositor and I will at once remit any cost on hearing from you about
it'.
Letter dated May 10. 1917, from 42 St. George St.,
Toronto.
`Just a line to say that I hope you are going to give us a thorough treatment of Phil. 3:11, especially the
apparent hypothesis, "If by any means I might attain". I am frequently asked questions on this text, and
although I have looked pretty carefully to what our beloved old friend Dr. Bullinger has said in Things to
Come I cannot say I have yet been able to find an interpretation which meets satisfactorily, the thought,
which, to many minds, is suggested by the text ... . Perhaps, however, all this has been dealt with in your
promised article in the May number ... `.
Letter dated May 29. 1917, from 42 St. George's. St.,
Toronto.
`I wish you would in some way or other, justify your view of Acts 1:25 stated on p.76 of your May
number. I cannot find it supported by any commentator, and so far as I can see, the twofold use of "place"
makes the reference of the second far more natural to Judas than Matthias. Your interpretation of the passage
as a whole is quite strong and convincing enough without this. There was a time when I was among those
who thought that Peter had made a mistake, but I have long been convinced of the general line of your article
.... Let me also add that your suggestion on p.78 about John 6:29 is most interesting ...'.
Here was a scholar, late Principal of Wycliffe College, Oxford, and Principal of a Bible College in Toronto,
not only reading The Berean Expositor as one magazine among many, but reading it with intense interest and
manifesting that interest by continual correspondence. It is surely an evidence of great grace that, knowing the