Related Letters - 1908.05.18 Sears to Baring-Gould

# Letters >Doi [W?]ie Nantai Fuhchow May 18th 1908 >Dear Mr. Baring-Gould >By the very same post as your letter, one came also from Mr. Lloyd, saying that he had received a cablegram telling him my resignation was accepted. I have been waiting to reply to your letter until I heard from Victoria. I had asked the Lord to decide it by setting me free quickly, if it were His will' so feel that He had done so. >There is no need to reiterate what was in my formal letter but may I just point out that I did not make use of the expression "the spiritual worldliness" of some of the methods & rules recently adopted by the C. M. S. nor did I use the word "sinlessness." >What I did say was that we pleaded with God that He would "fulfil to us those wonderful words in 1 John I.7 "The Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin" & those in Gal. I. 20 (margin) A.V. "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live but Christ liveth in me; & that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, & gave Himself up for me." >Surely that is what we came out to teach, and what we long to experience in daily life? I do not think either Mr. Sloan or Mr. Webster would repudiate those words. >I also said re C. M. S. was "I am also very troubled about the changes in the financial policy of the C. M. S. of late; also I do not feel that I can ever conscientiously accept the new Regulations regarding Staturs of Missionaries, even if greatly modified - as I feel that they are not according to the Spirit of Christ." >I wrote to the Victorian Association at the same time that I wrote to you. >It seemed very strange that your letter should speak of "further waiting upon God" [...] and yet the Cablegram should come, at the very same time. But, as I have said, I believe it was all in God's plan that I should be set free,& not asked to remain until Miss Coleman's return. I am very sorry she is not here to take over the work with Miss Ramsay. But God will certainly work out His Own purposes of blessing for Kien-Yang. May He soon send a mighty conviction of Sin upon the poor dead souls there [- &?] lead them back to Himself! He has led me to stay on in Fuh-Lien, although the way has not yet opened for definite work. As I have told those in authority here, it is my earnest desire to avoid any friction or interference with existing work. >Thanking you for your letter. >I remain, > Yours Sincerely, > M. Hellen Sears