Royalty
and
(Copied
from a Letter of a Sister in England,
written in
the early 1900’s)
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We
have so much to be thankful for as a nation.
Last week, after the prayer meeting, one of the brothers was telling us
of some man who went to the publisher of “Safety, Certainty and Enjoyment” to
purchase 50 copes of it. When he asked
the price, the publisher replied: “They are free to you. Queen Mary gave instructions that the first
purchaser of 50 copies should have them free.”
Then one of our brothers sent a book to the King at his Coronation (May
6, 1910), and he wrote a letter of thanks for it himself, saying, “I, too, am a
believer.”
It appears that when he was Duke
of York, he sent for one of the brothers to read the Bible to him and explain
it. You may imagine how thankful we
were to hear this and to know we have one of God’s children on the throne.
I know that “Safety, Certainty and
enjoyment” has been used to Queen Mary’s conversion. George Cutting, who wrote
it, spent the previous day alone. When
one of the children asked their mother where their father was, she replied: “He
is spending the day with God,” and the next day he wrote the tract. – (Signed)
E. K. B.
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I have learned
from another source that when the present King, as Duke of York, was married,
his mother, Queen Mary, gave each of the two hundred guests a copy of “Safety,
Certainty and Enjoyment,” bound in white kid.
-(Signed)
M. Smith.
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