The Seven Churches of Asia: The Church with a Mystic Tendency (2)

If I may be allowed to cast a modern hue over the ancient church and present to you in a concrete picture my conception of the congregation in Thyatira, I would offer the following. It is Wednesday-evening. The church holds mid-week prayer-meeting. Let us attend one of these. The angel of the church opens with a fer­vent prayer and offers a few words of introduction, glow­ing with the love of his heart to the Lord Jesus. He speaks if it, how in the past few days he realized his sin­ful...