WCP3458

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St Valery

Finchley Road

West Hampstead

N.W.

Nov[ember]. 20. 1891

My dear Sir

I am grateful for your kind letter to me & for your kindness in reading my sermon & commenting s[ome]th[ing] on it.

It must help us [2] to see that we[?] are instead[?] to access Mr. Bell's view of the suffering of God. If God can suffer, we may be quite sure that He does. I myself have always felt the present reluctance to speculate [3]² on the Nature of God. All I can do is to insist that He must be at least as 'Good', in the most [1-2 words illeg.] 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. Query[?], 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 discussed thanks[?] [1 word illeg.] in no [1 word illeg.] in its uncertainty[?] of God.

Yours most truly, | Charles Voysey³[signature]

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