WCP3458

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ST VALERY, FINCHLEY ROAD,

HAMPSTEAD, LONDON, N. W.

Nov. 20. 1891

My dear Sir

I am grateful for your kind letter¹ to me & for your kindness in reading my sermon & commenting upon it.

It must help me [2] to see that you are disposed to accept Mr. Bell's² view of the suffering of God. If God can suffer, we may be quite sure that He does.

I myself have always felt the [illeg.] reluctance to speculate [3] on the Nature of God. All I can do is to insist that He must be at least as 'Good', in the most comprehensive sense, as the best of His creations only, of course, indefinably better. If sympathy be an excellence in us, it must also exist in Him, in a far higher sense. [illeg.], can sympathy be shown or [4] felt without suffering? One thought comforts me — Mission starts with the full consciousness that ever higher & higher truth about God is to be discovered[.] [2 words illeg.] in no finality in its conceptions of God.

Yours most truly, | Charles Voysey³[signature]

I think we have been largely led astray by the term "Infinite" as applied to God.