It is not without a strong sense of happy memories that the

monumental volume on Romans - Just and the Justifier - carried a

touching reference to forty years of devoted service to the Berean by

Mr. F.P. Brininger, and that upon the launching of the new volume -

Life through His Name - Mr. Albert Gallimore of Birmingham should

be remembered, also with forty years' close fellowship in the company

of Mr. Charles H. Welch. The parallel is continued in that neither of

the pioneers was permitted to remain at Mr. Welch's disposal to see

the Volume leave the Press.

The volume, Just and the Justifier by its exposition of the epistle to

the Romans has unveiled some of the grace manifested in the `Gospel

of God ... concerning His Son', and this new exposition Life through

His Name, introducing John's record of God's testimony - `In Him was

life and the life was the light of men' - will cause many to rejoice anew

that the Word of Truth, rightly divided, has not left unguarded a single

joint in the harness of those who may `please Him Who hath chosen ...

a soldier'. The joy of fellowship with Mr. Welch and Mr. Gallimore

for over forty years is at once an act of grace abounding, and a

responsibility not lightly to be regarded; but if one of my fingers can

point towards a tried, tested and approved highway for the feet of

saints, then my foreword shall be something of which I `may have

confidence, and not be ashamed before Him'.

This then is my God-speed message to this new volume, and may

God thereby receive the praise due to His Name.

J. H.

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