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55. The last two lines are to be omitted. They are only an imperfect repetition of the preceding.

64. Mr. Harris remonstrated with others, and spoke very strongly about this teaching, but I cannot confirm the fact that he spoke directly to Mr. N. I give the statement therefore as to the remonstrance merely as I heard it just after, of which I have an absolute certainty. The fact of the teaching is unquestionable. I will add here the ground on which it was based, Christ’s prayer could not but have been answered, hence he could have asked it only for the apostles in their time. That we have the heavenly blessing in this respect. They had the heavenly and earthly. It will be seen how entirely this confirms what is stated as to the assertions made as to unity in the letter of the five to the London brethren commented on.

69. The reason first given for not attending one of the more private meetings was somewhat different. This brother felt himself out of his place there, subsequently he ceased attending the more public meeting on the ground stated. The material fact however was stronger rather than stated here, that unless he received Mr. N.’s views his ministry would not be received here or in the meetings around.

70. For sufficiently made up, read sufficiently instructed.

This is all that I can find to correct in what follows. It is of course possible that something may have escaped me.

I add another mark of the enemy’s work. It is this. Where there is the sudden reception of a whole system, and the authority of the author of it set up at once over the mind. When truth is received into the soul by the Spirit, it is received and engrafted by God, so that, though a blessed door may be opened by any given truth, we are built up truth by truth, each being wrought into the soul so that there is faith in it, and the consciousness of God’s teaching us that, and the instrument of it if any is not between us and God as to it, though inspired teachers were of course an authority.