I have pleasure in saying that Mr. Chas. H. Welch has worked as Drawing Master, for the last 3 years in these

Evening Classes. In spite of the difficulties arising from the facts, that the pupils are drawn from very poor

homes, and that the classes are quite free, the interest of the scholars has been aroused, and sustained earnest

work has been accomplished, and good results have been secured.

Mr. Welch has an excellent influence over his class, and I am pleased to see that he has the power to awaken

some artistic instinct in the most unlikely pupils, whilst the clever student is really very fortunate to be under

his excellent tuition. He gives much forethought to the preparation of his lessons and they are systematically

arranged on a thoroughly educational basis. He is a very hard and conscientious worker sparing neither time

nor trouble for the good of his class.

I consider this specially difficult school, a most severe test of an Instructor's discipline and teaching power,

and Mr. Welch has, in my opinion, proved himself, even under these conditions, to be a teacher with

exceptional ability.

(Signed) George E. Brown,

Responsible Master.

This second testimonial covers the period when I practically `lived' on the earnings that accrued from this very

testing centre of activity, which were so low, that to state it would probably sound as uttering an untruth - we leave it

at that, realizing that `Out of them all the Lord delivered me' `that the preaching might be fully known'.

I commenced teaching in the L.C.C. Evening Schools at the lowest rate of pay, and in the second year my entire

earnings from this source averaged 10/- per week! And while this struggle was going on, and with such exceeding

limitations to contend with, The Berean Expositor was published. Truly, if in nothing else, I could quote the

apostle's words with some measure of feeling:

`As poor, yet making many rich' (2 Cor. 6:10).

Toward the end of 1908 I felt moved to write to Dr. Bullinger. I had seen a copy of Things to Come while still

acting as Secretary to the Bible Training College, and although I had been warned against the Doctor's `heretical'

teaching, much that I read struck a familiar chord. After an interval I again saw an issue of Things to Come and was

amazed to see an article which I could have duplicated from my own notes. Evidently, I thought, whoever wrote

that article had moved along similar lines to myself, and so, with some trepidation I plucked up courage to write to

the Doctor, asking him for an opportunity to see him and talk over one or two important points in which I felt bound

to differ from his findings.

One of the points raised in this letter reads:

`Are we not liable to be using transitional things if we do not discriminate in epistles like Corinthians and

Romans - truth tempered to suit the time when the Jew was a factor to be reckoned with, but not so now'.

After some delay, the Doctor granted me an interview at the offices of the Trinitarian Bible Society, Bury Street,

London, and that hour's interview proved to be the most critical turning point in my life and ministry. The Doctor

invited me to say what was troubling me, and I feared, that after all, he would smile indulgently, pat me on the

shoulder and tell me to go home and forget all about it. Again I plucked up courage and here is a transcript of our

Myself -

From your writings Doctor, I believe I am right in saying that you do not believe `The Church'

began at Pentecost, but rather, that the Dispensational Boundary must be drawn at Acts 28?

Dr. Bullinger -

That is so. I have made that quite clear.

Myself -

Well, what seems to me to stultify the position you have taken regarding Acts 28, is, that you

nevertheless treat the whole of Paul's epistles as one group, starting with Romans, ending with

Thessalonians, with Ephesians somewhere in the centre.

To my amazement and joy, the Doctor looked at me for a moment, then slapping his thigh with his hand said: