This blog chiefly seeks to collate materials available elsewhere on the net by or about J Gresham Machen


Wednesday 10 September 2008

Last telegram

It is well known that as Machen lay dying, having gone through blizzards to visit a church in North Dakota that was in trouble, and having thus contracted pneumonia, he telegraphed his friend Professor John Murray at Westminster Seminary with these words: "Thank God for the act of obedience of Christ; no hope without it." The allusion seems to be to something they had recently been discussing.

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