Typed letter from N.D. Pendleton to Rev. Robert J. Tilson in London, England. Pendleton received Tilson’s letter of June 23rd at his camp at Indian Lake. Pendleton explains that his letter with greetings to the British Assembly was brief because he was unsure how the meetings would go with reference to the “Hague doctrine and its propaganda.” He writes, “I felt that it would hardly be in good taste for me to assume that those who are devoted to the new doctrine would, in this seeming interim, employ the British Assembly as a forum.” Now that he knows the Hague position will be formally advocated by at least one paper, he sees that “the proverbial fat will be in the fire, and the meetings of the Assembly will in large degree be given over to the issue.” Pendleton cannot anticipate the arguments that will be put forth in the paper, but he can make an educated guess based on the arguments of the original proponents of the Hague doctrine. He writes, “These proponents have not criticized us for our ignorance of the plain teaching of the Writings, but rather they have commiserated us for our lack of a regenerate opening of the spiritual degree of our minds, apart from which, as they hold, we could not comprehend a single spiritual truth. They allowed us, at the best, only some interior natural comprehension – nothing more.” Pendleton looks forward to reading the paper when it is published. Names mentioned: Mrs. (Viola Wolcott) Rennels