# Precious Letters from Our Readers Language: en Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, November/December 2001, Number 5 Source pages: 34–35 Read article: Original PDF: 2001\-11\-remnant\.pdf [The Heartbeat of The Remnant, November/December 2001]() ![]() We thank God for the many letters of counsel and encouragement we have been receiving\. It is the only way we can evaluate our progress\. Keep them coming\. Our desire is to foster a free flow of edification, inspiration, and burden; from us to you, and you to us\. That way we can pass some of the blessings on to the others who are reading\. We would love to hear from you in any of the following ways\. - A meaningful lesson in family devotions that you can pass on to other fathers\. - A testimony for *The Blessing Corner* where you found God’s blessing in some area of obedience\. - A question that can be answered to the edification of all\. - An area of spiritual growth, obtained by one of the exercises suggested in the magazine\. - A word of encouragement or counsel about *The Remnant*, or any section of it\. Dear Editor, I just received the Magazine, “The Heartbeat of The Remnant” this morning, and I was so touched that you sent it, that I felt compelled to write and say a big THANK YOU\. This is the second copy I’m receiving and I was really looking forward to it\. I have had to borrow in the past, but having my own copy now enables my husband to read and also pass unto others\. Although I’ve not sat down to read, I was drawn to the short article, “Warnings about C\. S\. Lewis\.” I was drawn to it because he happens \(or happened\) to be one of my favorite “Christian” authors\. Believe me, I didn’t know anything about him\. I just assumed he was a born\-again Christian author\. To tell you the truth, I read the Chronicles of Narnia, and I was carried away\. I was even contemplating buying the series for our Family Library, even though I had some uneasy feelings when reading some of them\. I want to thank you for the warnings\. I can’t truly express how grateful I am to you, for all your articles\. I want you to know that God is using you to do a lot of work in my family\. My husband read the last edition, and it inspired us to re\-introduce the reading of the Bible at our supper table, and explain to the children what the Bible is saying\. I pray that God will continue to enrich you in every way\. I pray that His anointing shall not cease to flow in your ministry\. I pray that you will not lose your reward, and that you will reap all that you have sown, in multiples\. Amen\. Dear Remnant, I just want to write and say that The Remnant is such a blessing to my husband and me\. We really like the changes in the new Remnant\. Thank you so much for your wonderful work in putting it together\. We live in Sweden and we are longing to be part of a Christian fellowship that is set apart from the world and has the convictions you share in your magazine\. We don’t know of any Mennonite church here\. We are praying about the possibility of being part of starting a new work here\. We were blessed with our first child, Melody, last year\. Being a stay\-at\-home mother and homemaker is a very lonely walk over here\. You might know that Sweden is a Socialist nation and the society here is built up so that it’s very difficult for a family to live off one income\. It’s the norm to put your children in daycare from 1 year of age and the daycares are supposed to be good for the children\. The government is currently working on making the daycares free for all families\. Homeschooling is legal so far but only around 100 children are being homeschooled in Sweden\. I don’t know any family personally that homeschools and I don’t know if any Christians are homeschooling in Sweden\. Spanking is illegal\. The church here surely needs a true revival that touches the homes\. If the Lord wants us to continue to live in Sweden we trust that He will make a way for us to live godly lives and to raise up our children in His ways\. God bless you\! *Ulrika Freeman, Sweden* Dear editor, I totally agree with you that the Bible teaches us that we can keep our children from the world\. You are only the 3rd person whom I’ve heard teach that\. Mr\. Booth and I firmly agree\. By God’s grace all my children will be sold out for God\. I pastor a church in the heathen “mission field” of Phoenix, AZ\. I would absolutely LOVE to meet you and speak with you\. So if you’re ever in Phoenix, PLEASE look me up\. *Phoenix, AZ* I have just appreciated the spiritual depth of the articles in the Remnant\. During my busy schedule as a schoolteacher, The Remnant was one of just a few magazines I took time to read\. How I heard my God calling to me through the pages\. A line on the article concerning Andrew Murray’s book *Absolute Surrender\.* Shortly after reading the article I came across the book and was able to borrow it and read it and Scripture on my knees in my devotions most of the winter\. Life changing\! *Wooster, OH* We’re sorry that it costs you so much to send your magazine to Australia\! We do very much appreciate your sacrifice\. We enjoy the Remnant and share it with another family but if you find it too expensive to post we’ll understand if you think it’s wise to take us off your mailing list\. *Bundaberg, Australia* I do very much enjoy The Heartbeat\! We appreciate all the hard work that goes into it\. May God bless you\! I notice that most, if not all, of your pages “Sharpened Words for Little Ones” focus on families that have older children, and several at that\! \(older meaning 5 and above\) Kenn and I have a 2 year old and a 9 month old\. Would you have suggestions for small, young families? Our 2 yr\. old is extremely sharp—knows her colors, counts to 10, and copycats like everything\. We want to take advantage of these teachable moments\. *Canton, OH* I really enjoy reading Remnant magazine, especially on the topic of godly homes/home biography\. I wonder where we could purchase these books \(mentioned by Denny Kenaston\) written by William & Catherine Booth\. I also want to thank you for sending me the Mission magazine and weekly cassette tapes\. *Singapore* **The Training of Children** by William Booth Schmul Publishers Salem, Ohio 44460 U\.S\.A\. May the Lord bless you all for this ministry\. I am alone here\. No church fellowship and I have no family\. You have no idea how I look forward to the Heartbeat and the missions newsletters\. *Mempis, TN* We have been blessed tremendously by this new edition of “The Heartbeat of The Remnant\.” We like the way you organize it and the covers are so inspiring\! Everything is so helpful…a challenge for every one\! Thank you and keep up the good fight\! *Marcellus, MI* Thank you for your wonderful publication–I am always encouraged to draw closer to the Lord with each issue\. I especially enjoyed this issue on revival\! I have a feeling you might receive some negative feed back on your new subscription policy, but do not be discouraged\! Those who truly feed on the magazine will not mind the little bit of effort it takes to keep receiving it\. May God bless this ministry\! *Phoenix, OR* The Heartbeat of The Remnant is a great blessing to our family\. We have many of the Charity tapes and praise the Lord for how He has used your ministry to bless our family\. I am a Baptist Evangelist and Home Schooling father of 10 special needs children–married 32 yrs, 12 children\. *Springfield, KY*