Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Pendleton has just retuned from the Kitchener Assembly where the main theme of the papers presented was the Academy’s 50-year jubilee. Pendleton believes this twelfth assembly was one of the greatest they have ever had, in terms of both attendance and the spirit of love for the Church. Pendleton reflects on the state of the Academy as “a life saving movement within the Church” and warns against the adverse forces that they must vigilantly guard against. He writes, “I refer of course to those gradual accretions which inevitably act as conventionalizing influences and spiritually deadening weights upon every reforming movement.” Pendleton has faith that the Lord will preserve the New Church in one form or another, but not necessarily as the Academy. They must therefore be on guard lest they become “spiritually slothful and proprially over confident.” Pendleton asks Tilson to convey the greetings of the Kitchener Assembly to the Colchester Assembly and emphasizes the need for spiritual and doctrinal union amongst the bodies of the Academy at this time.