In December of 1842, this pastor of a church in Dundee, Scotland, St. Peter's Church in Dundee, Scotland,

wrote a letter to his flock.

Well, let me just read it to you, he says, my dear flock, the approach of another

year stirs up within me new desires for your salvation and for the growth of those of you who are saved.

God is my record how greatly I long after you all

in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

What the coming year is to bring forth, who can tell?

There is plainly a weight lying upon the spirits of all good men

and a looking for some strange work of judgment upon this land. Those believers will stand

firmest who have no dependence upon self or upon

creatures but upon Jehovah Our righteousness. This pastor from Dundee

Scotland continues.

We must be driven more to our Bibles and to the mercy seat if we are to stand in this evil

day.

Then we shall be able to say like David, the proud have had me greatly in

division yet have I not declined from my law.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in all of

thy word.

And then this pastor adds, it has been long

in my mind to prepare a scheme of scripture reading

so that the whole Bible might be read once by you in the year and all might be feeding in the same portion

of the green pastor at the same time.

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