CARTA DE BENJAMIN BARTON EN INGLÉS

You will be surprised to see this letter and not understand what it means. So I tell you right away: I have contracted tuberculosis and I can’t explain how I acquired it, and it is advancing in the left lung, which is why I am forced to return home to combat it with good nutrition, rest and, above all, with God’s power. I cannot specify the characteristics of the illness that I suffer, but I do know the characteristics of my God and I do not fear the future because He is still with me, and I with Him. I do not try to write or speak what this has meant in my life nor can I yet explain the factfully.

Thank God, his grace sufficient and I imagine that it is his mercy and his love that keep me from knowing the magnitude of the problema one faces. Regrettably in any case, only those of us who have been totally commited to what happened, and only we can know what it implies, and that only in part.

But God gave us the grace to fase what this means even in the farewell we had. I’ll probably be home for a short time, although it looks like I have to go to the hospital as soon as possible. I can’t say anything concrete for now because I just have to take it one step at a time and as He shows me how. Please pray for those who remained in Peru to continue with the work as God puts in your hearts on their behalf. The enemy is furious against all efforts for Christ in Peru and therefore fights it. However Christ is victorious. I’m so sorry, Harold, that you had the mumps but I’m glad you’re recovered again. Have your children already had it? It’s better to give them early. Of course the words that God makes radiate from his Word to us are very precios, He knows how to make