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  Speaker 1: Forward of how I Know God Answers Prayer by Rosalind
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  Speaker 1: go Forth. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. How I Know God Answers
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  Speaker 1: Prayer Forward. It seems fitting that this little book of
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  Speaker 1: personal testimonies to answered Prayer should have a brief introductory
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  Speaker 1: word as to how they came to be written. The
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  Speaker 1: question has been asked by some who read many of
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  Speaker 1: these testimonies as they appeared in the pages of the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday School Times. How could you write such personal and
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  Speaker 1: sacred incidents in your life? I could not have written
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  Speaker 1: them but for a very clear, God given leading. The
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  Speaker 1: story is as follows. When in Canada on our first furloughs,
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  Speaker 1: I was frequently amazed at the incredulity expressed when definite
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  Speaker 1: testimony was given to an answer to prayer. Sometimes this
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  Speaker 1: was shown by an expressive shrug of the shoulders, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: by a sudden silence or turning of the topic of conversation,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes more openly by the query how do you
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  Speaker 1: know that it might not have happened so anyway? Gradually
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  Speaker 1: the impression deepened. If they will not believe one, two,
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  Speaker 1: or a dozen testimonies, will they believe the combined testimonies
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  Speaker 1: of one whole life. The more I thought of what
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  Speaker 1: it would mean to record the sacred incidents connected with
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  Speaker 1: the answers to prayer, the more I shrank from the
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  Speaker 1: publicity and from undertaking the task. There were dozens of
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  Speaker 1: answers far too sacred for the public eye, which were
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  Speaker 1: known only to a few others, only to God. But
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  Speaker 1: if the record were to carry weight with those who
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  Speaker 1: did not believe in the supernatural elements in prayer, many
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  Speaker 1: personal and scarcely less sacred incidents must of necessity be
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  Speaker 1: made public. Again and again I laid the matter aside
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  Speaker 1: as impossible, But I know now that the thing was
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  Speaker 1: of God. As months, even years passed, the impelling sense
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  Speaker 1: that the record of answers to prayer must be written
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  Speaker 1: gave me no rest. It was at the close of
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen o eight to ten furlough, during which, as
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  Speaker 1: a family we had been blessed with many and to
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  Speaker 1: our weak faith, wonderful answers to prayer, that my oldest
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  Speaker 1: son urged me to put down in some definite form
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  Speaker 1: the answers to prayer of my life and extracted from
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  Speaker 1: me a solemn promise that I would do so. But
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  Speaker 1: months passed after returning to China and the record had
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  Speaker 1: not been touched. Then came a sudden and serious illness
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  Speaker 1: which threatened my life. When the doctor told me I
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  Speaker 1: must not delay in getting my affairs in order. It
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  Speaker 1: was then that an overwhelming sense of regret took possession
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  Speaker 1: of me that I had not set down the prayer testimonies,
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  Speaker 1: and solemnly I covenanted with the Lord that if he
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  Speaker 1: would raise me up, they should be written. There was
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  Speaker 1: no more question of what others might think. The one
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  Speaker 1: thought was to obey. The Lord raised me up, and
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  Speaker 1: although he had to deal with me very sternly once
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  Speaker 1: more before I really set myself to the task. The
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  Speaker 1: testimonies that are given here were written at last, most
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  Speaker 1: of them in odd moments of time, during strenuous missionary
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  Speaker 1: journeys among the Heathen. Thus it will be seen that
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  Speaker 1: these incidents of answered prayer are not given as being
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  Speaker 1: more wonderful or more worthy of record than multitudes the
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  Speaker 1: world over could testify too. But they are written and
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  Speaker 1: sent out simply and only because I had to write
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  Speaker 1: them or disobey God. Rosalind go Forth end a foreword
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of How I Know God Answers Prayer by
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  Speaker 1: Rosalind go Forth. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: How I Know God Answers Prayer, Chapter one, Getting Things
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  Speaker 1: from God? Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings,
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  Speaker 1: and not one of them is forgotten before God? Fear not.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore ye are of more value than many sparrows the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. The pages of this little book deal
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  Speaker 1: almost wholly with just one phase of prayer petition. It
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  Speaker 1: is almost entirely a personal testimony of what petition to
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  Speaker 1: my heavenly Father has meant in meeting the everyday crisises
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  Speaker 1: of my life. A prominent Christian worker who read some
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  Speaker 1: of these testimonies in the Sunday School Times said to
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  Speaker 1: the writer, to emphasize getting things from God as you
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  Speaker 1: do is to make prayer too material. To me. This
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  Speaker 1: seems far from true. God is my Father. I am
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  Speaker 1: his child, as truly as I delight to be sought
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  Speaker 1: for by my child when he is cold or hungry, ill,
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  Speaker 1: or in need of protection. So it is with my
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  Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, prayer has been hedged about with too many
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  Speaker 1: man made rules. I am convinced that God has intended
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  Speaker 1: prayer to be as simple and natural and as constant
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  Speaker 1: a part of our spiritual life as the intercourse between
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  Speaker 1: a child and his parent in the home, and as
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  Speaker 1: a large part of that intercourse between child and parent
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  Speaker 1: is simply asking and receiving. Just so is it with
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  Speaker 1: us and our heavenly Parent. Perhaps, However, the most blessed
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  Speaker 1: element of this asking and getting from God lies in
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  Speaker 1: the strengthening of faith, which comes when a definite request
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  Speaker 1: has been granted. What more helpful and inspiring than a
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  Speaker 1: ringing testimony of what God has done? As I have
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  Speaker 1: recalled the past in writing these incidents, one of the
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  Speaker 1: most precious memories is that of an evening when a
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  Speaker 1: number of friends had gathered in our home. The conversation
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  Speaker 1: turned on answered prayer. For more than two hours, we
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  Speaker 1: vied with one another in recounting personal incidents of God's
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  Speaker 1: wonderful work, and the inspiration of that evening still abides.
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  Speaker 1: A Christian minister once said to me, is it possible
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  Speaker 1: that the Great God of the universe, the maker and
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  Speaker 1: ruler of mankind could, or would, as you would make out,
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  Speaker 1: take interest in such a trifle as the trimming of
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  Speaker 1: a hat. To me, it is preposterous. Yet did not
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  Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ say, the very hairs of your
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  Speaker 1: head are all numbered, and not one sparrow is forgotten
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  Speaker 1: For God? And again, your heavenly Father knoweth what ye
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  Speaker 1: have need of before ye ask him. It is true
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  Speaker 1: that there is nothing too great for God's power, and
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  Speaker 1: it is just as true that there is nothing too
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  Speaker 1: small for His love. If we believe God's word, we
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  Speaker 1: must believe, as Dan Crawford has tersely and beautifully expressed it,
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  Speaker 1: that the God of the infinite is the God of
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  Speaker 1: the infinitesimal. Yes, he who clears the grounding bird, and
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  Speaker 1: who guides the grinding flow, He who hears the cry
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  Speaker 1: of the little kit fox and the lumming of the snow.
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  Speaker 1: No more wonderful testimony perhaps has ever been given of
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  Speaker 1: God's willingness to help in every emergency of life than
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  Speaker 1: that which Mary Slessar gave when asked to tell what
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  Speaker 1: prayer had meant to her. My life, she wrote, is
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  Speaker 1: one long, daily, hourly record of answered prayer for physical health,
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  Speaker 1: for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for error and
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  Speaker 1: dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food
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  Speaker 1: provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes
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  Speaker 1: to make up life. And my poor service, I can
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  Speaker 1: testify with a full and often wonder stricken awe that
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  Speaker 1: I believe God answers prayer. I know God answers prayer.
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  Speaker 1: I have been asked the question, has God always given
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  Speaker 1: you just what you have asked for? Oh? No, For
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  Speaker 1: him to have done so would have been great unkindness.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, when I was a young woman, I prayed
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  Speaker 1: for three years that God would grant me a certain petition.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I pleaded for this as for life itself, so
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  Speaker 1: intensely did I want it. Then God showed me very
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  Speaker 1: clearly that I was praying against his will. I resigned
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  Speaker 1: my will to his in the matter, and a few
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  Speaker 1: months later God gave what was infinitely better. I have
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  Speaker 1: often praised Him for denying my prayer, for had he
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  Speaker 1: granted it, I could never have come to China. Then, too,
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  Speaker 1: we must remember that many of our prayers, though always heard,
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  Speaker 1: are not granted because of sin harbored in the life
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  Speaker 1: or because of unbelief or of failure to meet some
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  Speaker 1: other Bible recorded condition governing prevailing prayer see Bible Study
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  Speaker 1: on pages one hundred and twenty nine and one hundred thirty.
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  Speaker 1: The following incidents of answered prayer are by no means
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  Speaker 1: a complete record. How could they be when no record
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  Speaker 1: of prayer has been kept all these fifty years. Had
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  Speaker 1: there have been, I doubt not that volumes could have
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  Speaker 1: been written to the glory of God's grace and power
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  Speaker 1: in answering prayer. But even from what is recorded here,
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  Speaker 1: I too can say from a full heart, I know
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  Speaker 1: God answers prayer. He answered prayer so sweetly that I
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  Speaker 1: stand amid the blessing of His wondrous hand and marvel
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  Speaker 1: at the miracle. I see the favors that His love
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  Speaker 1: hath wrought for me prayer one for the impossible, and
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  Speaker 1: dare upon the banner this brave motto, beer, my Father
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  Speaker 1: answers prayer. End of chapter one, Getting Things from God
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two of How I Know God Answers Prayer by
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  Speaker 1: Rosalind Goforth. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: How I Know God answers Prayer? Chapter two, Early lessons
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  Speaker 1: in the life of faith. I love the Lord because
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  Speaker 1: he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Some one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen one, when a very little child, so
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  Speaker 1: young I can remember nothing earlier, a severe thunderstorm passed
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  Speaker 1: over our home. Terrified, I ran to my mother, who
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  Speaker 1: placed my hands together and, pointing upward, repeated over and
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  Speaker 1: over again the one word Jesus. More than fifty years
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  Speaker 1: have passed since that day, but the impression left upon
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  Speaker 1: my child mind of a being invisible but able to
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  Speaker 1: hear and help has never effaced. The most precious recollections
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  Speaker 1: of early childhood are associated with stories told us by
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  Speaker 1: our mother, many of which illustrated the power of prayer.
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  Speaker 1: One that made a specially deep impression upon me was
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  Speaker 1: about our grandfather, who, as a little boy, went to
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  Speaker 1: visit cousins in the south of England, their home being
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  Speaker 1: situated close to a dense forest. One day, the children,
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  Speaker 1: lured by the beautiful wild flowers, became hopelessly lost in
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  Speaker 1: the woods. After trying in vain to find a way out,
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  Speaker 1: the eldest, a young girl, called the frightened crying little
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  Speaker 1: ones around her, and said, when mother died, she told
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  Speaker 1: us to always tell Jesus if we were in any trouble,
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  Speaker 1: let us kneel down and ask him to take us home.
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  Speaker 1: They knelt and prayed, and as she prayed, one of
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  Speaker 1: the little ones opened his eyes to find a bird
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  Speaker 1: so close to his hand that he reached out for it.
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  Speaker 1: The bird hopped away, but kept so close to the
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  Speaker 1: child as to lead him on. Soon all were joining
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  Speaker 1: in the chase after the bird, which flew or hopped
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  Speaker 1: in front or just above, and sometimes on the ground
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  Speaker 1: almost within reach. Then suddenly it flew into the air
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  Speaker 1: and away. The children looked up to find themselves on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the woods and in sight of home.
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  Speaker 1: With such influences bearing upon one at an impressionable age,
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  Speaker 1: it is not surprising that I came, even as a
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  Speaker 1: very little child, to just tell Jesus when in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Through the mists of memory, one incident comes out clearly,
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  Speaker 1: which occurred when I was six or seven years of age.
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  Speaker 1: While playing one day in the garden, I was seized
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  Speaker 1: with what we then called jumping toothache. I ran to
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  Speaker 1: my mother for comfort, but nothing she could do seemed
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  Speaker 1: to ease the pain. The nerve must have been exposed,
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  Speaker 1: for the pain was acute. Suddenly I thought Jesus can
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  Speaker 1: help me, and just as I was with my face
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  Speaker 1: pressed against my mother's breast, I said in my heart,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, if you will take away this toothache right
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  Speaker 1: now now, I will be your little girl. For three
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  Speaker 1: years before, before the prayer was well uttered, the pain
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  Speaker 1: was entirely gone. I believed that Jesus had taken it away,
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  Speaker 1: and the result was that for years, when tempted to
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  Speaker 1: be naughty, I was afraid to do what I knew
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  Speaker 1: was wrong, lest if I broke my side of what
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  Speaker 1: I felt to be a compact, the toothache would return.
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  Speaker 1: This little incident had a real influence over my early life,
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  Speaker 1: gave me a constant sense of the reality of a
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  Speaker 1: divine presence, and so helped to prepare me for the
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  Speaker 1: public confession of Christ as my savior a few years later,
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  Speaker 1: at the age of eleven. About a year after my
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  Speaker 1: confession of Christ, an incident occurred which greatly strengthened my
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  Speaker 1: faith and led me to look to God as a
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  Speaker 1: father in a new way. When Easter Sunday morning came,
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  Speaker 1: it was so warm only spring clothes could be worn
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  Speaker 1: my sister and I decided at breakfast that we would
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  Speaker 1: not go to church, as we had only your old
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  Speaker 1: winter dresses. Going to my room, I turned to my
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  Speaker 1: bible to study it. When it opened at the sixth
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  Speaker 1: chapter of Matthew, and my eye rested on these words words,
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  Speaker 1: why take ye thought for raiment? Seek ye first the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added
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  Speaker 1: unto you. It was as if God spoke the words
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  Speaker 1: directly to me. I determined to go to church, even
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  Speaker 1: if I had to humiliate myself by going in my
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  Speaker 1: old winter dress. The Lord was true to his promise.
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  Speaker 1: I can still feel the power the resurrection message had
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  Speaker 1: upon my heart that day so long ago. And further,
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  Speaker 1: on the following day, a box came from a distant aunt,
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  Speaker 1: containing not only new dresses, but much else that might
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  Speaker 1: well be included in the all these things. An unforgettable
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  Speaker 1: proof of God's loving care came to us as a
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  Speaker 1: family about this time, when my parents were face to
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  Speaker 1: face with a serious financial crisis. Isaiah sixty five twenty
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  Speaker 1: four was literally fulfilled. Before they call, I will answer,
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  Speaker 1: and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. At
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  Speaker 1: this time, it is necessary to state we depended on
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  Speaker 1: a quarterly income, which came through my mother's lawyer in England.
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  Speaker 1: Usual circumstances had so drained our resources that we found
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in the middle of the quarter with barely sufficient
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  Speaker 1: to meet a week's needs. My dear mother assured us
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord would provide, and that he would not
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  Speaker 1: forsake those who put their trust in him. That very
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  Speaker 1: day a letter came from the lawyer in England, enclosing
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  Speaker 1: a draft for a sum ample to meet our needs
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  Speaker 1: till the regular remittance should arrive. This unexpected and timely
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  Speaker 1: draft proved to be a bonus which did not occur again.
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  Speaker 1: Some years later, having moved to a strange city, a
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  Speaker 1: great longing came to do some definite service for my master.
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  Speaker 1: One day there came to the Bible class. I attended
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  Speaker 1: a call for teachers to aid in a Sunday school
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  Speaker 1: near by. When I presented myself before the superintendent of
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday school the following Sunday and offered my services,
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  Speaker 1: it is not much wonder I received a rebuff, for
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  Speaker 1: I was young and quite unknown. I was told that
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  Speaker 1: if I wished a class, it would be well for
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  Speaker 1: me to find my own scholars. I can remember how
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  Speaker 1: a lump seemed choking me all the way home that day.
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  Speaker 1: At last, determining not to be baffled, I prayed the
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  Speaker 1: Lord to help me get some scholars I went forth
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  Speaker 1: praying every step of the way. The following Saturday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: and confessing just one short street near our home, I
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  Speaker 1: received the promise of nineteen children for Sunday school. The
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  Speaker 1: next day, a rather victorious young woman walked up to
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  Speaker 1: the Sunday school superintendent with seventeen children following. Needless to say,
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  Speaker 1: I was given a class. In the autumn of eighteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty five, the Toronto Mission Union, a faith mission, decided
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  Speaker 1: to establish a branch mission in the East End slums
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  Speaker 1: of the city. Three others, with myself were deputed to
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  Speaker 1: open this work. Everything connected with it was entirely new
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  Speaker 1: to me, but most helpful and inspiring I found it,
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  Speaker 1: For in face of tremendous difficulties that seemed to my
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  Speaker 1: inexperienced eyes insurmountable, I learned that prayer was the secret
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  Speaker 1: which overcame every obstacle, the key that unlocked every closed door.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like a child learning new and wonderful lessons
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  Speaker 1: as I saw benches, tables, chairs, stove, fuel, lamps, oil,
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  Speaker 1: even an organ coming in answer to definite prayer for
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  Speaker 1: these things. But best sight of all was when men
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  Speaker 1: and women deep in sin were converted and changed into
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  Speaker 1: workers for God in answer to prayer. Praise God for
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  Speaker 1: the lessons then learned, which were invaluable later when facing
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  Speaker 1: the Heathen. The time came when two diverse paths lay
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  Speaker 1: before me, one to England as an artist, one to
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  Speaker 1: China as a missionary. Circumstances made a definite decision most difficult.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I had tried every means to find out
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  Speaker 1: God's will for me, and no light had come. But
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  Speaker 1: in a day of great trouble, when my precious mother's
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  Speaker 1: very life seemed to hang in the balance, I shut
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  Speaker 1: myself up with God's word, praying definitely for Him to
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  Speaker 1: guide me to some passage by which I might know
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  Speaker 1: His will for my life. My Bible opening at the
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth chapter of John's Gospel, the sixteenth verse seemed to
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  Speaker 1: come as a passage to me. Ye have not chosen me,
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  Speaker 1: but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye
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  Speaker 1: should go and bring forth fruit. Going to my dear
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  Speaker 1: mother and telling her of the message God had given me.
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  Speaker 1: She said, I dare not fight against God. From that time,
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  Speaker 1: the last hindrance from going to China was removed. Surely,
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  Speaker 1: the wonderful way God has kept his child for more
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  Speaker 1: than thirty years in China is proof that this call
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  Speaker 1: was not a mistaken one. In all thy ways, acknowledge Him,
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  Speaker 1: and He will make plain thy paths Proverbs three six.
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  Speaker 1: During the summer of eighteen eighty seven, a book written
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  Speaker 1: by doctor Hudson Taylor came into my hands in China's
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  Speaker 1: spiritual needs and claims. The writer told many instances of
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  Speaker 1: God's gracious provision in answer to prayer. The incidents related
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  Speaker 1: impressed me deeply. A little later, a few weeks before
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  Speaker 1: my Mayria Marge, when I found I was short fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars of what I would need to be married free
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  Speaker 1: of debt, I resolved not to let others know of
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  Speaker 1: my need, but to just trust God to send it
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  Speaker 1: to me. The thought came, if you cannot trust God
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  Speaker 1: for this, when Hudson Taylor could trust for so much more,
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  Speaker 1: are you worthy to be a missionary. It was my
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  Speaker 1: first experience of trusting quite alone for money. I was
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  Speaker 1: sorely tempted to give others just a hint of my need,
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  Speaker 1: but I was kept back from doing so. And though
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  Speaker 1: I had a week or more of severe testing, peace
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  Speaker 1: of mind and the assurance that God would supply my
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  Speaker 1: need came at length. The answer, however, did not come
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  Speaker 1: till the very last night before the wedding. That evening,
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  Speaker 1: a number of my fellow workers from the East End
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  Speaker 1: Mission called and presented me with a beautifully illuminated address
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  Speaker 1: and purse. After these friends had left, I returned to
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  Speaker 1: my home circle assembled in the back parlor, and showed
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  Speaker 1: them the address and the purse unopened. Not for a
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  Speaker 1: moment did I think there was anything in the purse,
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  Speaker 1: till my brother said, you foolish girl, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: open it. I opened the purse and found it contained
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  Speaker 1: a check for fifty dollars. This incident has ever remained
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  Speaker 1: peculiarly precious, for it seemed to us a seal of
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  Speaker 1: God upon the new life opening before us. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two Early Lessons in the Life of Faith, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: three of How I Know God Answers Prayer by Rosalind
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  Speaker 1: go Forth. This libribox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: How I know a good answers prayer, Chapter three, Go
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  Speaker 1: forward on your knees eighteen eighty seven to eighteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 1: I will go before thee and make the crooked places straight.
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  Speaker 1: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and
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  Speaker 1: cut in sunder the bars of iron Isaiah forty five two.
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  Speaker 1: In attempting to record what prayer meant in our early
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  Speaker 1: piece near days, other than purely personal testimonies must be given,
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  Speaker 1: for we were as a little band of missionaries, bound
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  Speaker 1: together in our common needs and dangers by a very closepond.
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  Speaker 1: In October eighteen eighty seven, my husband was appointed by
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian Presbyterian Church to open a new field in
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  Speaker 1: the northern section of the province of Honan, China. We
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  Speaker 1: left Canada the following January, reaching China in March eighteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight. Not till then did we realize the tremendous
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  Speaker 1: difficulties of the task before us. Doctor Hudson Taylor of
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  Speaker 1: the China Inland Mission, writing to us at this time, said,
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  Speaker 1: we understand North Honan is to be your field. We
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  Speaker 1: as a mission have tried for ten years to enter
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  Speaker 1: that province from the south, and have only just succeeded.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of the most anti foreign provinces in China. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: if you would enter that province, you must go forward
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  Speaker 1: on your knees. These words gave the keynote to our
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  Speaker 1: early pioneer days. Would that a faithful record had been
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  Speaker 1: kept of God's faithfulness in answering prayer. Our strength as
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  Speaker 1: a mission and as individuals during those years so fraught
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  Speaker 1: with dangers and difficulties lay in the fact that we
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  Speaker 1: did realize the hopelessness of our task apart from the
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  Speaker 1: divine aid. The following incident occurred while we were still
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  Speaker 1: outside Honan studying the language at a sister mission. It
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  Speaker 1: illustrates the importance of prayer from the home base for
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  Speaker 1: those on the field. My husband was finding great difficulty
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  Speaker 1: in acquiring the language. He studied faithfully many hours daily,
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  Speaker 1: but made painfully slow progress. He and his colleagues went
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  Speaker 1: regularly together to the street chapel to practice preaching in
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  Speaker 1: Chinese to the people. But though mister Goforth had come
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  Speaker 1: to China almost a year before the other missionary, the
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  Speaker 1: people would ask the latter to speak instead of mister Goforth,
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  Speaker 1: saying they understood him better. One day, just before start
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  Speaker 1: warding as usual for the chapel, my husband said, if
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  Speaker 1: the Lord does not give me very special help in
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  Speaker 1: this language, I fear I shall be a failure as
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  Speaker 1: a missionary. Some hours later he returned, his face beaming
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  Speaker 1: with joy. He told me that he realized most unusual help.
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  Speaker 1: When his turn came to speak. Sentences came to his
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  Speaker 1: mind as never before. And not only had he made
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  Speaker 1: himself understood, but some had appeared much moved, coming up
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  Speaker 1: afterward to have further conversation with him. So delighted and
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  Speaker 1: encouraged was he with this experience that he made a
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  Speaker 1: careful note of it in his diary. Some two months
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  Speaker 1: and a half later, a letter came from a student
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  Speaker 1: in Knox College saying that on a certain evening a
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  Speaker 1: number of students had met specially to pray for mister Goforth.
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  Speaker 1: The power of prayer was such and the presence of
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  Speaker 1: God so manifestly felt that they decided to write and
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  Speaker 1: ask mister Goforth if any special help had come to
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  Speaker 1: him at that time. Looking in his diary, he found
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  Speaker 1: that the time of their meeting corresponded with that time
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  Speaker 1: of special help in the language. I cannot tell why
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  Speaker 1: there should come to me a thought of some one
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  Speaker 1: miles and years away, in swift insistence on the memory.
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  Speaker 1: Unless there is a need that I should pray, we
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  Speaker 1: are too busy to spare thought for days together of
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  Speaker 1: some friends away. Perhaps God does it for us, and
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  Speaker 1: we ought to read his signal as a sign to pray.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps just then my friend has fiercer fight, a more
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  Speaker 1: appalling weakness at decay of courage, darkness, some lost sense
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  Speaker 1: of right, And so in case he needs my prayers,
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  Speaker 1: I pray. At last. The joyful news reached us woman
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  Speaker 1: waiting outside of Honan, that our brethren had secured property
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  Speaker 1: in two centers. It would be difficult for those in
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  Speaker 1: the homeland to understand what the years of waiting had
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  Speaker 1: meant to some of us. The danger to those dear
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  Speaker 1: to us touring in Honan was very great. For ye years.
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  Speaker 1: They never left us to go on a tour without
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  Speaker 1: our being filled with dread, lest they should never return.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the Lord in his mercy heard our prayers for them,
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  Speaker 1: and though often in grave danger, none received serious injury.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a history of the mission, but I
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  Speaker 1: cannot forbear giving here one incident illustrating how they were
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  Speaker 1: kept during those early days. Two of our brethren, after
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  Speaker 1: renting property out of town, just within the boundary of
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  Speaker 1: Honan and near the Wei River, moved in, intending to
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  Speaker 1: spend the winter there. But a sudden and bitter persecution arose.
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  Speaker 1: Just as they had become settled, the mission premises were
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  Speaker 1: attacked by a mob and everything was looted. The two
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  Speaker 1: men were roughly handled, one being dragged about the courtyard.
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  Speaker 1: They found themselves at last left alone, their lives spared,
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  Speaker 1: but everything gone. Their position was serious in the extreme.
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  Speaker 1: Several days journey away from friends with no money, no bedding,
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  Speaker 1: and no clothes, but those upon them them and the
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  Speaker 1: cold winter begun. In their extremity, they knelt down and
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  Speaker 1: committed themselves to the Lord, and according to his promise,
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  Speaker 1: he delivered them out of their distress. For even while
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  Speaker 1: they prayed, a brother missionary from a distant station was
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  Speaker 1: at hand. He arrived unexpectedly, without knowing what had occurred,
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  Speaker 1: a few hours after the looting had taken place. His
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  Speaker 1: coming at such an opportune moment filled the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: their heathen enemies with fear. Money and goods were returned,
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  Speaker 1: and from that time the violent opposition of the people ceased.
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  Speaker 1: A few months after the above incident, several families moved
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  Speaker 1: into Honan, and a permanent occupation was effected. But the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of the people seemed as adamant against us. They
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  Speaker 1: hated and distrusted us, as if we were their worst enemies.
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  Speaker 1: The district in which we settled was known for its
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  Speaker 1: turbulent and anti foreign spirit, and as a band of missionaries,
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  Speaker 1: we were frequently in the gravest danger. Many times we
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  Speaker 1: realized that we, as well as our fellow workers at
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  Speaker 1: the other stations, were kept from serious harm only by
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  Speaker 1: the ruling protecting power of God. In answer to the
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  Speaker 1: many prayers which were going up for us all in
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  Speaker 1: that critical juncture in the history of our mission. The
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  Speaker 1: following are concrete examples of how God heard our prayers.
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  Speaker 1: At this time, we had for our station doctor, a
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  Speaker 1: man of splendid gifts. He was a gold medalist with
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  Speaker 1: years of special training and hospital experience, and was looked
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  Speaker 1: upon as one of the rising physicians in the city
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  Speaker 1: from which he came. Imagine his disappointment therefore, when month
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  Speaker 1: after month passed and scarcely a good case came to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital, the people did not know what he could do,
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  Speaker 1: and moreover, they were afraid to trust themselves into his hands. We,
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  Speaker 1: as a little band of missionaries, began to pray definitely
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord would send cases to the hospital which
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  Speaker 1: would open the hearts of the people toward us and
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  Speaker 1: our message. It was not long before we saw this
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  Speaker 1: prayer answered beyond all expectation. Several very important cases came
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  Speaker 1: almost together, one so serious that the doctor hesitated for
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  Speaker 1: days before operating. When at last the operation did take place,
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  Speaker 1: the doctor's hands were strengthened by our prayers. The patient
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  Speaker 1: came through safely, and a few days later was going
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  Speaker 1: around a living wonder to the people. Very much depended
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  Speaker 1: upon the outcome of this and other serious operations. Had
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  Speaker 1: the patients died under the doctor's hands, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been quite sufficient to have caused the destruction of the
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  Speaker 1: mission premises and the life of every missionary. Three years later,
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  Speaker 1: the hospital records showed that there had been twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand treatments in one year. Again, we kept praying that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord would give us converts. From the very beginning,
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  Speaker 1: we had heard of missionaries in India, China and elsewhere
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  Speaker 1: who had worked for many years without gaining converts. But
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  Speaker 1: we did not believe that this was God's will for us.
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  Speaker 1: We believed that it was his pleasure and purpose to
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  Speaker 1: save men and women through his human channels, and why
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  Speaker 1: not from the beginning. So he kept praying and working
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  Speaker 1: and expecting converts, and God gave them to us. The
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  Speaker 1: experience of thirty years has confirmed this belief. Space permits
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  Speaker 1: the mention of but two of these earliest converts. The
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  Speaker 1: first was wag Fangaeo, who came with us into Honan
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  Speaker 1: as mister Goforth's personal teacher. He was a man of
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  Speaker 1: high degree equal to the Western m A and was
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  Speaker 1: one of the proudest and most overbearing of Confucian scholars.
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  Speaker 1: He despised the missionaries and their teaching, and so great
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  Speaker 1: was his opposition that he would beat his wife every
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  Speaker 1: time she came to see or listen to our message.
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  Speaker 1: But mister Goforth kept praying for this man and using
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  Speaker 1: all his influence to win him for Christ. Before many
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  Speaker 1: months passed, a great change had come over mister Wang.
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  Speaker 1: His proud, overbearing manner had changed, and he became a humble,
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  Speaker 1: devout follower of the lowly Nazarene God used a dream
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  Speaker 1: to awaken this man's conscience, as is not uncommon in China.
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  Speaker 1: One night he dreamed he was struggling in a deep
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  Speaker 1: miry pit, but try as he would, he could find
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  Speaker 1: no way of escape. When about to give up in despair,
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  Speaker 1: he looked up and saw mister Goforth and another missionary
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  Speaker 1: on the bank above him, with their hands stretched out
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  Speaker 1: to save him. Again, he sought for some other way
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  Speaker 1: of escape, but finding none, he allowed them to draw
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  Speaker 1: him up. This man later on became mister Goforth's most
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  Speaker 1: valued evangelist. For many years, his splendid gifts were used
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  Speaker 1: to the glory of his master in the work among
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  Speaker 1: the scholar class in the Shangtefu district. He has long
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  Speaker 1: since passed to his reward, dying as he had lived,
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  Speaker 1: trusting only in the merit of Jesus Christ for salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Another of the bright glints in the darkness of those
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  Speaker 1: earliest days in Honan was the remarkable conversion of wang
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  Speaker 1: Fu Ln. For many years, his business had been that
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  Speaker 1: of a public story teller, but when mister Goforth came
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  Speaker 1: across him, he was reduced to an utter wreck. Through
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  Speaker 1: opium smoking. He accepted the gospel, but for a long
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  Speaker 1: time seemed too weak to break off the opium habit.
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  Speaker 1: Again and again he tried to do so, but failed
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  Speaker 1: hopelessly each time. The poor fellow seemed almost past hope
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  Speaker 1: when one day mister Goforth brought him to the mission
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  Speaker 1: in his cart. The ten days that followed can never
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  Speaker 1: be forgotten by those who watched Wang Fu lin struggle
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  Speaker 1: for physical and spiritual life. I verily believe nothing but
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  Speaker 1: prayer could have brought him through. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the ten days, the power of opium was broken, and
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  Speaker 1: Wang Fu Lin came out of the struggle a new
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  Speaker 1: man in Christ Jesus, I shall have occasion to speak
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  Speaker 1: of this man again. In all the cases of divine
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  Speaker 1: healing cited in this record, it will be noted that
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  Speaker 1: God healed in answer to prayer, either when the doctors
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  Speaker 1: had done all in their power and hope had been abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: or when we were out of reach of medical aid.
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  Speaker 1: Soon after coming to China, the Reverend Hunt Corbett, one
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  Speaker 1: of the most devoted and saintly of God's missionaries, gave
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  Speaker 1: a testimony which later was used of God to save
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  Speaker 1: the writer from giving up service in China and returning
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  Speaker 1: home to Canada. Doctor Corbett said that for fifteen years
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  Speaker 1: he had been laid aside every year with that terrible
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  Speaker 1: scourge of the East dysentery, and the doctors at last
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  Speaker 1: gave a definite decision that he must return at once
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  Speaker 1: to the homeland and forsake China. But said the grand
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  Speaker 1: old man, I knew God had called me to China,
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  Speaker 1: and I also knew that God did not change. So
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  Speaker 1: what could I do? I dared not go back on
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  Speaker 1: my call. So I determined that if I could not
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  Speaker 1: live in China, I could die there, And from that
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  Speaker 1: time the disease lost its hold on me. This testimony
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  Speaker 1: was given over twenty five years ago, when I had
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  Speaker 1: been almost thirty years in China. In January nineteen twenty,
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  Speaker 1: when I was well nigh ninety years of age, this
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  Speaker 1: beloved and honored Saint of God passed to hire. For
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  Speaker 1: several years, I had been effected just as doctor Corbett
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  Speaker 1: had been, and each year the terrible disease seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be getting a firmer hold upon me. At last, one
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  Speaker 1: day my husband brought me the decision of the doctors
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  Speaker 1: that I should return home, and as I lay there,
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  Speaker 1: ill and weak, the temptation came to yield. But as
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  Speaker 1: I remembered doctor Corbett's testimony and my own clear call,
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  Speaker 1: I felt that to go back would be to go
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  Speaker 1: against my own conscience. I therefore determined to do as
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  Speaker 1: doctor Corbett had done, leave myself in the Lord's hands,
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  Speaker 1: whether for life or for death. This happened more than
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago, and since then I have had very
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  Speaker 1: little trouble from that dread disease. Yes, the deeper the need,
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  Speaker 1: and the more bitter the extremity, the greater the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for God to show forth his mighty power in our lives,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: if we but give him a chance by unswerving obedience
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  Speaker 1: at any cost. In the day when I cried, answers
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  Speaker 1: me and strengthens me with the strength in my soul. P.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred and thirty eight three. During our fourth year
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  Speaker 1: in China, when we were spending the hot season at
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  Speaker 1: the coast, our little son, eighteen months old, was taken
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  Speaker 1: very ill with dysentery. After several days fight for the
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  Speaker 1: child's life, came the realization one evening that the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of Death was at hand. My whole soul rebelled. I
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  Speaker 1: actually seemed to hate God. I could see nothing but
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  Speaker 1: cruel injustice in it all, and the child seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be fast going. My husband and I knelt down beside
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  Speaker 1: the little one's bedside, and he pleaded earnestly with me
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  Speaker 1: to yield my will and my child to God. After
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  Speaker 1: a long and bitter struggle, God gained the victory, and
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  Speaker 1: I told my husband I would give my child to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Then my husband prayed, committing the precious soul
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  Speaker 1: into the Lord's keeping. While he was praying, I noticed
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  Speaker 1: that the rapid, hard breathing of the child had ceased.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking my darling was gone, I hastened for a light,
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  Speaker 1: for it was dark, But on examining the child's face,
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  Speaker 1: I found that he had sunk into a deep, sound,
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  Speaker 1: natural sleep, which lasted most of the night. The following day,
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  Speaker 1: he was practically well of the dysentery. To me, it
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  Speaker 1: has always seemed that the Lord tested me to almost
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  Speaker 1: the last moment. Then when I yielded my dearest treasure
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  Speaker 1: to him and put my Lord first, he gave back
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  Speaker 1: the child. While writing the above, I came across an
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  Speaker 1: extract from the Christian of March twelfth, nineteen fourteen, in
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  Speaker 1: which the editor said, speaking at the annual meeting of
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the Huntingdon County Hospital, Lord Sandwich referred to the power
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  Speaker 1: of spiritual healing, and premising that the infinite mind cannot
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: measure the power of the infinite said he looked forward
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  Speaker 1: to the day when the spiritual doctrine of heath and
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  Speaker 1: the physical discoveries of science will blend in harmonious combination
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  Speaker 1: to the glory of God and the benefit of humanity.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter three, Go forward on your knees. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: four of How I Know God Answers Prayer by Rosalind Goforth.
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  Speaker 1: This Libribox recording is in the public domain. How I
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  Speaker 1: Know God Answers Prayer, Chapter four a God Given Field
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  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety four to nineteen hundred. Lord, there is none
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  Speaker 1: beside THEE to help, between the Mighty and Him that
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  Speaker 1: hath no strength. Help us, O, Lord, our God, for
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: we rely on THEE, and in Thy name are come
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  Speaker 1: against this multitude. Second Chronicles, fourteen eleven. The story of
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  Speaker 1: the opening of shang Tea is so connected by a
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  Speaker 1: chain of prayer that to give isolated instances of prayer
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: would be to break the chain. A few months after
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  Speaker 1: arrival in China, an old experienced missionary kindly volunteered to
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  Speaker 1: conduct mister Goforth and his colleague, who had just arrived
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  Speaker 1: through North Honan, that they might see the field for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Traveling southward by cart, they crossed the border into Honan
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  Speaker 1: early one morning. As my husband walked beside the carts,
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  Speaker 1: that morning, he felt led to pray that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: would give that section of Honan to him as his field.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: The assurance came that his prayer was granted. Opening his
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  Speaker 1: daily text book, he found the passage for that morning
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  Speaker 1: was from Isaiah fifty five eight to thirteen. Like a
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  Speaker 1: precious promise of future blessing for that field, came the words,
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  Speaker 1: as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh
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  Speaker 1: it bring forth and bad that it may give sea
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: to the sower and bread to the eater. So shall
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  Speaker 1: my word be, that goeth forth out of my mouth,
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  Speaker 1: it shall not return unto me void. For six years, however,
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  Speaker 1: our faith was sorely tested. Of all places, shang Tea
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  Speaker 1: seemed most determined to keep out the missionary, and there
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  Speaker 1: were other difficulties in the way. A presbytery had been formed,
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  Speaker 1: as others joined us, and all matters had been decided
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  Speaker 1: by that body. Two stations that had been opened, where
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  Speaker 1: a foothold could first be gained, required all and more
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  Speaker 1: than all the force we then had. So for six
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  Speaker 1: years the door of shang Tea remained fast closed. But
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  Speaker 1: during all those years mister Goforth never once lost sight
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  Speaker 1: of God's promise to him, nor failed to believe it.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Again and again when mister Goforth and his colleague visited
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the city, they were mocked and threatened the people, showing
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  Speaker 1: the utmost hostility. But the day came at last when
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the long prayed for permission from the presbytery to open
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  Speaker 1: shame was granted. The very next morning found mister Goforth
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  Speaker 1: and wrote for shang Tea to secure property for a mission.
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  Speaker 1: Sight often has he told how all the way over
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  Speaker 1: that day to shang Tea he prayed the Lord to
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  Speaker 1: open the hearts of the people and make them willing
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  Speaker 1: to give him the property most suitable for the work.
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  Speaker 1: Within three days of his reaching shang Tea, he had
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  Speaker 1: thirty five offers of property and was able to secure
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  Speaker 1: the very peace of land he had earlier chosen as
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  Speaker 1: most ideal for the mission. Thus the Lord did break
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  Speaker 1: in pieces the gates of brass which had kept us
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  Speaker 1: so long from our promised land. A year later I
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  Speaker 1: joined my husband there with our three little children. It
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  Speaker 1: was arranged that our colleagues should take charge of the
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  Speaker 1: outside evangelism while we opened work at the main station
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  Speaker 1: to understand what it meant for us to have our
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  Speaker 1: need supplied. There should be some knowledge of what that
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  Speaker 1: need was. We decided from the first that no one
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  Speaker 1: should be turned from our doors. Mister Goforth received the
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  Speaker 1: men in the front guest room, while the women and
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  Speaker 1: children came to our private quarters. During those first weeks
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  Speaker 1: and months, hundreds, nay thousands crowded to see us. Day
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  Speaker 1: by day. We were literally besieged. Even at meal time,
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  Speaker 1: our windows were banked with faces. The question ever before
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  Speaker 1: us those days were how to make the most of
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  Speaker 1: this wonderful opportunity, which would never come again after the
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  Speaker 1: period of curiosity was passed. How to win the friendship
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  Speaker 1: of these people who showed in a hundred ways their
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  Speaker 1: hatred and distrust of us. How to reach their hearts
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  Speaker 1: with our wonderful message of a saviour's love. All that
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  Speaker 1: was in our power was to do day by day
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  Speaker 1: what we could with the strength that was given us,
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  Speaker 1: from early morning till dark, sometimes nine or ten hours
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  Speaker 1: a day. The strain of receiving and preaching to these
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  Speaker 1: crowds was kept up. My husband had numbers of workmen
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  Speaker 1: to oversee material for building, to purchase, and to see
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  Speaker 1: to all the hundred and one things so necessary in
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  Speaker 1: building up a new station. Besides all this, he had
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  Speaker 1: to receive and preach to the crowds that came. He
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  Speaker 1: had no evangelist, mister Wang being then loaned to mister
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  Speaker 1: mc gee. I had my three little children and no
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  Speaker 1: nurse or bible woman. When too exhausted to speak longer
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  Speaker 1: to the courtyard of woman, I would send for my husband, who,
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  Speaker 1: though tired out, would speak in my stead. Then we
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  Speaker 1: would rest ourselves and entertain the crowd by singing a hymn.
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  Speaker 1: So the days passed, but we soon realized that help
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  Speaker 1: must come or we would both break down. One day,
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  Speaker 1: mister Goforth came to me with his bible open, at
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  Speaker 1: the promise, my God shall supply all your need and asked,
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  Speaker 1: do we believe this? If we do, then God can
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  Speaker 1: and will supply us with some one to help preach
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  Speaker 1: to these crowds if we ask in faith. He prayed
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  Speaker 1: very definitely for a man to preach. With my doubt
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  Speaker 1: blinded heart, I thought it was as if he were
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  Speaker 1: asking for rain from a clear sky. Yet even while
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  Speaker 1: he prayed, God was moving one to come to us.
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  Speaker 1: A day or two later there appeared at the mission
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  Speaker 1: the converted opium fiend weighg Fulin, whose conversion has already
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  Speaker 1: been recorded. No one could have looked less like the
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  Speaker 1: answer to our prayers than he did. Fearfully emaciated from
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  Speaker 1: long years of excessive opium smoking, racked with a cough
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  Speaker 1: which three years later ended his life. Dressed in such
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  Speaker 1: filthy rags as only a beggar could wear, he presented
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  Speaker 1: a pitiable sight. Yet the Lord seeth not as man seeth.
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  Speaker 1: After consulting together, mister Goforth decided to try him for
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  Speaker 1: a few days, believing that he could at least testify
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  Speaker 1: to the power of God to save a man from
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  Speaker 1: his opium. Soon he was reclothed in some of my
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  Speaker 1: husband's Chinese garments, and within an hour or two of
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  Speaker 1: his entering the mission gate. Practically a beggar, he was
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  Speaker 1: seated in charge of the men's chapel, so changed one
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  Speaker 1: could scarcely have recognized him. From the first day of
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  Speaker 1: his ministry at shang Ti, there was no doubt in
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  Speaker 1: the minds of any who heard him that he had
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  Speaker 1: indeed been sent to us by our gracious God. For
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  Speaker 1: he had in a remarkable degree the unction and power
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost. His gifts as a speaker were
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  Speaker 1: all consecrated to one object, the winning of souls to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. He seemed conscious that his days were few,
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  Speaker 1: and always spoke as a dying man, two dying men.
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  Speaker 1: Little wonder it is therefore, that from the very beginning
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  Speaker 1: of his ministry in our chapel, men were one to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: God spared him to us for the foundation lying of
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  Speaker 1: the church at shang Tee. Then called him higher. Then
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  Speaker 1: he told me how he had come across a widow
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  Speaker 1: and her son in a mountain village who had heard
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  Speaker 1: the gospel from a recent convert out of one of
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  Speaker 1: the other stations. This man had been a member of
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  Speaker 1: the same religeon just sect as the widow and her
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  Speaker 1: son when he found Christ, he had once thought of
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  Speaker 1: his friends and went over the mountain to tell them.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Chang received the Gospel gladly. She had been a
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  Speaker 1: preacher in nunt Heathen sect and had gained the fluency
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  Speaker 1: in speaking and power in holding audiences so necessary in
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  Speaker 1: the preaching of the Gospel. The way was soon open
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  Speaker 1: for her to come to me, and she became my
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  Speaker 1: constant companion and valuable assistant in the woman's work. During
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  Speaker 1: those early years. She witnessed a good confession in nineteen hundred,
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  Speaker 1: being strung up by her thumbs when refusing to deny
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  Speaker 1: her Lord faithfully. She served the Lord as a Bible
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  Speaker 1: woman until the time of her death in nineteen o three.
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  Speaker 1: During the first two or three years at Chang Ti Fu,
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  Speaker 1: we lived in unhealthy Chinese houses which were low and down.
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  Speaker 1: It was therefore thought best we should have a good,
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  Speaker 1: semi foreign house built for us. The work at this
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  Speaker 1: time was so encouraging, converse being added weekly and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: almost daily, that we feared lest the new house would
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  Speaker 1: hinder the work and become a separating barrier between ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and the people. We therefore prayed that God would make
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  Speaker 1: the new house a means of reaching the people, a
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  Speaker 1: blessing and not a hindrance. The answer to this prayer,
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  Speaker 1: as is often the case, depended largely upon ourselves. We
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  Speaker 1: had to be made willing to pay the price that
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  Speaker 1: the answer demanded. In other words, we came to see
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  Speaker 1: that in order that our prayer could be answered, we
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  Speaker 1: would have to keep open house every day and all day,
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  Speaker 1: which was by no means easy. Some assured us it
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  Speaker 1: would be wrong because it would make us cheap in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of the Chinese. Others said it was wrong
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  Speaker 1: because of the danger of infection to the children. But
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  Speaker 1: time proved these objections to be unfounded. The very highest
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  Speaker 1: as well as the lowest, were received and their friendship
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  Speaker 1: won by this means, And so far as I can remember,
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  Speaker 1: our children never met any contagion because of this way
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  Speaker 1: of our sis saving the people into our house. The
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  Speaker 1: climax in numbers was reached in the spring of eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, when eighteen hundred and thirty five men and
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  Speaker 1: several hundred women were received by us in one day.
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  Speaker 1: These were first preached to in large bands and then
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  Speaker 1: led through the house. We have seen evidences of the
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  Speaker 1: good of this plan in all parts of our field.
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  Speaker 1: It opened the hearts of the people toward us and
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  Speaker 1: helped us to live down suspicion and distrust, as nothing
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  Speaker 1: else could have done. In May of eighteen ninety eight,
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  Speaker 1: we started down to teat Sin by houseboat with our
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  Speaker 1: children for a much needed rest and change. Twelve days later,
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  Speaker 1: as we came in sight of teen Sin with a
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  Speaker 1: bitter north wind blowing, our eldest son went on deck
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  Speaker 1: without his overcoat, in disobedience to my orders. Shortly after,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: the child came in with a violent chill. That afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: when we arrived in Teasin, the doctors pronounced the verdict pneumonia.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: The following day, shortly after noon, a second doctor who
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: had been called in consultation, met a friend on his
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  Speaker 1: way from our boy's bedside and told her he did
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  Speaker 1: not think the child could live till morning. I had
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  Speaker 1: taken his temperature and found it to be one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six. He was extremely restless, tossing in the burning fever.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting down beside him with a cry to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: to help me, I said distinctly, p you disobeyed me
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  Speaker 1: and have thus brought this illness upon yourself. I forgive
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  Speaker 1: you ask Jesus to forgive you and give yourself to him.
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  Speaker 1: The child looked at me for a moment steadily, then
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  Speaker 1: closed his eyes. I saw his lips move for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: then quietly he sank into a sound sleep. When he
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  Speaker 1: awoke about dusk, I took his temperature and found it
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  Speaker 1: to be one hundred and one. By the time the
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  Speaker 1: doctor returned, it was normal and did not rise again.
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  Speaker 1: Although he had been having hemorrhage from the lungs. This ceased.
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  Speaker 1: Is not Jesus Christ, the same yesterday to day and forever.
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  Speaker 1: Why should we wonder therefore at His healing touch in
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  Speaker 1: this age? According to your faith? Be it unto you.
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  Speaker 1: During those early pioneer years, when laying the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: the Shangte Church, my own weak faith was often rebuked
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  Speaker 1: when I saw the results of the simple, childlike faith
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  Speaker 1: of our Chinese Christians. Some of those answers to prayer
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  Speaker 1: were of such extraordinary character that, when told in the homeland,
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  Speaker 1: even ministers expressed doubts as to their genuineness. But praise God,
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  Speaker 1: I know they are true. Here are two concrete examples.
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  Speaker 1: Li Ming, a warm hearted, earnest evangelist own Land. Some
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  Speaker 1: miles north of shang Ti Fu. On one occasion, when
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  Speaker 1: visiting the place, he found the neighbors all busy placing
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  Speaker 1: around their fields little sticks with tiny flags. They believed
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  Speaker 1: this would keep the locusts from eating their grain. All
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  Speaker 1: urged Li Ming to do the same, and to worship
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  Speaker 1: the locust God, for his brain would be destroyed. Lee
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  Speaker 1: Ming replied, I worship the one, only true God, and
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  Speaker 1: I will pray him to keep my grain, that you
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  Speaker 1: may know that he only is God. The locusts came
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  Speaker 1: and ate on all sides of lee Ming's grain, but
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  Speaker 1: did not touch his. When mister Goforth heard this story,
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  Speaker 1: he determined to get further proof, so he visited the
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  Speaker 1: place for himself and inquired of le Ming's heathen neighbors
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  Speaker 1: what they knew of the matter. One and all testified
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  Speaker 1: that when the locusts came there grain was eaten, and
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  Speaker 1: lee Mings was not The Lord Jesus once said, after
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  Speaker 1: a conflict with unbelief and hypocrisy, I thank thee O Father,
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  Speaker 1: Lord of heaven and Earth, because thou hast hid these
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  Speaker 1: things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them
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  Speaker 1: unto babes our little Gracie became ill with a terribly
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  Speaker 1: fatal disease so common in malarious districts, enlarged spleen. The
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  Speaker 1: doctors pronounced her condition quite hopeless. One day a Ninese
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  Speaker 1: Christian woman came in with her little child up about
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  Speaker 1: the same age as our Gracie and very ill with
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  Speaker 1: the same disease. The poor mother was in great distress,
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  Speaker 1: for the doctor had told her also that there was
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  Speaker 1: no hope. She thought that if we could plead with
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  Speaker 1: the doctor, he could save her child. At last, mister
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  Speaker 1: Goforth pointed to our little Gracey, saying, surely, if the
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  Speaker 1: doctor cannot save our child, neither can he save Yours
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  Speaker 1: Your only hope and ours is the Lord himself. The
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  Speaker 1: mother was a poor, hard working, ignorant woman, but she
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  Speaker 1: had the simple faith of a little child. Some few
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  Speaker 1: weeks later she called again and told me the following story.
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  Speaker 1: When the pastor told me my only hope was in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, I believed him. When I reached home, I
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  Speaker 1: called my husband, and together we had committed our child
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  Speaker 1: into the Lord's hands. I felt perfectly sure the child
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  Speaker 1: would get well, so I did not take more care
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  Speaker 1: of him than of a well child. In about two
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  Speaker 1: weeks he sings so perfectly well that I took him
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  Speaker 1: to the doctor again, and the doctor said that he
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  Speaker 1: could discover nothing the matter with him. That Chinese child
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  Speaker 1: is now a grown up, healthy man, and our child died.
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  Speaker 1: Yet we had prayed for her, as few perhaps have
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  Speaker 1: prayed for any child. Why then was she not spared?
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  Speaker 1: I do not know, but I do know that there
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  Speaker 1: was in my life at that time the sin of
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  Speaker 1: bitterness toward another, and an unwillingness to forgive a wrong.
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  Speaker 1: This was quite sufficient to hinder any prayer, and did
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  Speaker 1: hinder for years until it was set right. Does this
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  Speaker 1: case of unanswered prayer shake my faith in God's willingness
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  Speaker 1: and power to answer prayer? No? No, My own child
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  Speaker 1: might just as reasonably decide never again to come to
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  Speaker 1: me with the request because I have, in my superior
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  Speaker 1: wisdom denied a petition. Is it not true in our
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  Speaker 1: human relationships with our children, that we see best to
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  Speaker 1: grant at one time what we withheld at another? What
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  Speaker 1: I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter?
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  Speaker 1: And one of the most precious experiences of God's loving
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  Speaker 1: mercy came to me in connection with our little Gracie's death.
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  Speaker 1: We had been warned that the end would probably come
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  Speaker 1: in convulsions. Two of our dear children had been so taken.
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  Speaker 1: Only a mother who has gone through such an experience
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  Speaker 1: can fully understand the horror of the possibility that such
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  Speaker 1: might come again at any time. One evening, I was
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  Speaker 1: watching beside our little one, Miss P being with me,
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  Speaker 1: when suddenly the child said, very decidedly, call Papa. I
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  Speaker 1: want to see Papa. I hesitated to rouse her father,
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  Speaker 1: as it was his time to rest. So I tried
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  Speaker 1: to put her off with some excuse, but again she
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  Speaker 1: repeated her request, and so I called her father, asking
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  Speaker 1: him to walk up and down with her until I returned.
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  Speaker 1: Going into the next room, I cried in an agony
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord not to let Gracie suffer, but if
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  Speaker 1: it was indeed his will to take the child, then
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  Speaker 1: to do so without her suffering. As I prayed, a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful peace came over me, and the promise came so
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  Speaker 1: clearly it was as if spoken, before they call, I
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  Speaker 1: will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will
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  Speaker 1: hear rising. I was met at the door by Miss P,
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  Speaker 1: who said, graceye is with Jesus, while I was on
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  Speaker 1: my knees. Our beloved child, after resting a few moments
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  Speaker 1: in her father's arms, had looked into his face with
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  Speaker 1: one of her loveliest smiles, and then quietly closed her
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  Speaker 1: eyes and had ceased to breathe, no struggle, no pain,
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  Speaker 1: but a falling on sleep. Like as a father pitieth,
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  Speaker 1: so the Lord pitieth. Ever, darkening clouds gathered about us
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  Speaker 1: during the months following Grace's death, And while the storm
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  Speaker 1: did not burst in all its fury till the early
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  Speaker 1: summer of nineteen hundred, yet the preceding winter was full
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  Speaker 1: of forebodings and constant alarms. On one occasion, thousands gathered
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  Speaker 1: inside and outside our mission, evidently bent on serious mischief.
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  Speaker 1: My husband and his colleagues moved in and out all
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  Speaker 1: the day among the dense crowd which filled the front courtyards,
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  Speaker 1: while we woman remained shut within closed houses, not knowing
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  Speaker 1: what moment the mom would break loose and destroy us all.
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  Speaker 1: What kept them back that day? What but trustful prayer
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord heard that day and wonderfully restrained the
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  Speaker 1: violence of our enemies. We did not know then, but
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  Speaker 1: those experiences were preparing us for the greater trials and
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  Speaker 1: perils awaiting us all end of chapter four, a God
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  Speaker 1: given Field. Chapter five of How I Know God Answers
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  Speaker 1: Prayer by Rosalind Goforth. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. How I Know God Answers Prayer, Chapter five
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  Speaker 1: Our Deliverance from the Boxers nineteen hundred. God is unto us,
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  Speaker 1: a God of deliverance Psalm sixty eight twenty, who delivered
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  Speaker 1: us out of so great a death, and will deliver
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  Speaker 1: on whom whom we have set our hope that he
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  Speaker 1: will also still deliver Second Chronicles one ten. Many times
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  Speaker 1: we were asked in the homeland to tell the story
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  Speaker 1: of our escape during the Boxer uprising, and often the
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  Speaker 1: question was put, if it was really God's power that
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  Speaker 1: saved you and others on that journey, then why did
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  Speaker 1: he not save those of his children who were so
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  Speaker 1: cruelly done to death. For a time this question troubled me.
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  Speaker 1: Why Indeed, one day, when seeking for light on the matter,
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  Speaker 1: I was directed to the twelfth chapter of Acts. There
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  Speaker 1: I found the only answer that can be given. We
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: are told in the second verse that James was put
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  Speaker 1: to death by the sword. Then the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: chapter is given to the detailed record of Peter's wonderful
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  Speaker 1: deliverance in answer to prayer verse five twelve. In that
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  Speaker 1: day when all things shall be revealed, I am convinced
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  Speaker 1: that we shall see that prayer had much to do
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: in the working out of our deliverance. When the first
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: cable was received in Canada, that informing the Home Church
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: of our parties starting on that perilous journey, we are
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  Speaker 1: told a great wave of prayer went up for us
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: from the Christians of all denominations. The Presbyterian Assembly of
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  Speaker 1: Canada was meeting at the time, and one session was
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: given up entirely to prayer on behalf of the missionaries
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  Speaker 1: in China. Never had that body witnessed such a season
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  Speaker 1: of intense united intercession. Later, when giving the story of
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: our escape in the homeland, repeatedly we have had people
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: come to us telling how during the weeks which elapsed
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: between the first cable informing the Home Church of our
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: danger and the second cable, which told of our safe
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: arrival at the coast, they had never ceased to cry
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to God to save us. Then, too, after all is said,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: we must believe God was glorified, and God's purposes were
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: fulfilled in the death of some, as in the saved
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  Speaker 1: lives of others. The blood of the martyrs is still
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: the speed of the Church. It was in the month
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  Speaker 1: of June eighteen ninety five that an incident occurred which
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: has never been linked in my mind with the events
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen hundred. I was about to leave Toronto with
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: my four children to join my husband in China when
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: a cable was received telling of the cruel massacre of
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: mister and Missus Stewart and others. Deep and widespread sympathy
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: was expressed, and much anxiety felt for the missionaries generally
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: in China. Many urged me to delay our return, but
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I felt it best to keep to our original plans,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: and a few days later found us bidding farewell to
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: friends at the Union Station, Toronto. Just as the train
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  Speaker 1: was leaving, A lady stepped forward quickly to the window
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  Speaker 1: and said, you do not know me, but I have
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: prayed the Lord to give me a promise for you.
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  Speaker 1: It is this, Take it as from him, and handed
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  Speaker 1: me a slip of paper. I opened the paper and read,
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  Speaker 1: no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: fifty four seventeen. Then and there I raised my heart
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: to God in prayer that He would fulfill this promise
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: to me and those dear to me. And as I prayed,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: there came the clear assurance that the lore heard. Never
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: can we forget that winter of eighteen ninety nine to
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: nineteen hundred, the clouds had begun to gather, and the
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  Speaker 1: mutterings of the coming storm were heard on all sides
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  Speaker 1: of us. Repeatedly. We were, as a mission in gravest danger,
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  Speaker 1: and at such times were literally shut up to God.
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  Speaker 1: The temper of the people was such that any little
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: thing angering them would have been as a spark to gunpowder.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: From the time of the government crisis of the autumn
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: of eighteen ninety nine, we in company with all other
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: foreigners in China, realized that the conditions were becoming serious.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Yet never did we expect or prepare for such a
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: cataclysm as took place when the storm clouds suddenly burst
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: in the early summer of nineteen hundred. The first indication
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: we had of coming danger was when our mail carriers
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: running to and from Tientsin were stopped and our mails returned,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: thus cut off from the outside world. We had to
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: depend solely upon the wild room afloat among the Chinese
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: for information. The country around us became daily more disturbed.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Day by day we could hear the beating of drums
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: and the cries of the people for rain. The darkness
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: and horror of those days in the midst of which
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: sickness and death entered our home can never be forgotten.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: On the nineteenth of June, our eldest daughter, Florence, after
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: a week of intense suffering, was released from pain. It
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: was while her life was still hanging in the balance
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: that we received the first communication from the American consul
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: of Xi Fu, urging us to flee. This message was
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: quickly followed by another, still more urgent. The question was
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: where could we flee. Our usual route was by river
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: boat two weeks to Teintsin, but this way was blocked,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: the whole region being infested with boxers and teen sin
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: even then in a state of siege. The only possible
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: route left open to us was southward by cart fourteen
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: days to fan Ching, then ten or more days by
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: houseboat to Hankow. We faced such a journey at that
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: time of the year with fear and trembling because of
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: the children, the danger from heat and sun being very great.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Gladly would we have stayed, but the Chinese Christians urged
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: us to go, saying they could escape more easily were
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: we not there. We had with us our four remaining children,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: Paul nine, Helen six, Ruth under three, and baby Wallace
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: eight months. Their faithful Chinese nurse, though weeping bitterly at
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: parting from her old mother of almost eighty, decided to
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: come with us. There were altogether in the party five men,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: six women, and five children, besides the servants and carters.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Many were the difficulties in the way of getting carts
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: and other necessary things for the journey, but one by
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: one all things needed were provided as we besought the
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Lord to open the way. There were many indications on
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: that journey that God's purpose was to save us. One
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: of the most striking of these happened just as we
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: were about to leave. The day previous to our departure,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: a message passed through the city of chang ti Ho,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: the messenger riding at breakneck speed. This messenger, we learned later,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: was en routed for the provincial capital with the sealed
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: message from the Empress dowager commanding the death of all foreigners.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: We had planned first to take the direct route south,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: which would, as far as we can now see, have
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: led us to our death. For this route would have
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: taken us through the capital. Almost at the last moment,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: and quite unaware of the danger on the direct route,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: we were let to change our plans and take a
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: route further west, though it made a considerably longer journey.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: We left chang Tea June twenty eighth, nineteen hundred at daybreak.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: At Wui hui Fu, the first large city to which
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: we came, an attempt was made to break into our inn,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: but as we prayed, the mob dispersed and we were
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: left in peace. On July first, we reached the north
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: bank of the Yellow River, and there for a short time.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: It was Sunday afternoon. We rested under the trees. Little
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: did we dream that even then many, very many of
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: our fellow missionaries and personal friends were being done to
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: death by the merciless boxers. At sunset, the ferry which
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: carried us across the river reached the south bank, and
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: here we found several missionaries and a party of engineers
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: waiting for us. These latter were fully armed and had
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: a fair escort. After some difficulty, it was decided that
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: we should all keep together. But in reality this party
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: kept by themselves, except that we stayed in the same
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: towns at night. Each day that passed seemed harder than
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: the last. The heat was intense, and ten or twelve
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: hours of bumping over rough roads in springless carts made
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: even a bed spread on the ground a welcome resting place. Once,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: when mister Goforth had jumped off our cart to get
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: fresh water for our head clothes, a crowd gathered round
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: and became very threatening, raising the cry kill kill. All
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the other carts were ahead, and the carter would not
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: wait for mister Goforth as he was afraid. During the
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: few moments that elapsed before my husband was allowed to
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: join us, even the other carter turned pale with suspense,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: and oh how I prayed. Except for a few similar
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: passing dangers, nothing special occurred until the evening of July seventh,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: when we reached the small town of Sintayne. We had
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: heard during the day that the whole country ahead of
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: us was in a state of ferment against the Roman Catholics.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Scarcely had we reached the inn when the engineers and
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: missionaries with them, who had become increasingly alarmed at the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: condition of the country, informed us that they were going
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: on to the large city of nan yang Fu that night,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: but would leave us two soldiers and two for the carts.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Mister Goforth did not wish them to go, for he
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: felt it would greatly increase our danger. Shortly after they
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: left us, the mo maw began to gather outside our inn.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: The gate was barricaded with carts for hours. Stones were
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: thrown against the gate, and demand was made for our money.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: A messenger was at once sent after the engineer's party,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: asking them to return. All that night was spent in
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: sleepless suspense. Early in the morning, the messenger returned with
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: the reply that they had failed to get help from
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: the nan yang Fu official and were obliged to push
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: on as soon as the carters heard. We were thus
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: left helpless. A panic seized them, and it was with
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: great difficulty they could be persuaded to harness their animals.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: All this time the crowd had been becoming more dense
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: as we could see through the cracks of the gate,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: and were ominously quiet. Hints had been given us of
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: coming danger, but that was all none spoke of what
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: all felt that we were probably going to our death suddenly,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: without the slightest warning. I was seized with an overwhelming
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: fear of what might be awaiting us. It was not
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: the fear of after death, but of probable torture that
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: took such awful hold of me. I thought, can this
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: be the Christian courage I have looked for? I went
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: by myself and prayed for victory, but no help came.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Just then some one called us to a room for
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: prayer before getting into our carts. Scarcely able to walk
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: for trembling, and utterly ashamed that others should see my
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: state of panic, for such it undoubtedly was. I managed
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: to reach a bench beside which my husband stood. He
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: drew from his pocket a little book Clark's Scripture Promises,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: and read the verses. His eye first fell upon They
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: were the following. The Eternal God is thy refuge. Underneath
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: are the everlasting arms, and he shall thrust out the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: enemy from before thee, and shall say destroy them. The
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: God of Jacob is our refuge. Thou art my help
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: and my deliverer, Make no tarrying O my God, I
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: will strengthen thee. YEA, I will help the YEA. I
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: The Lord, thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: unto thee, fear not, I will help thee. If God
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: before us, who can be against us, we may boldly say,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: what man shall do unto me. The effect of these
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: words at such a time was remarkable. All realized that
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: God was speaking to us. Never was there a message
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: more directly given to mortal man from his God than
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: that message to us. From almost the first verse, my
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: whole soul seemed flooded with a great peace. All trace
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: of panic vanished, and I felt God's presence was with us. Indeed,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: his presence was so real it could scarcely have been
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: more so had we seen a visible form. After prayer,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: we all got on our carts and one by one
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: passed out into the densely crowded street. As we approached
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: the city gate, we could see that the road was
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: black with crowds awaiting us. I had just remarked to
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: my husband how well we were getting through the crowds.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: When our carts passed through the gates, my husband turned
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: pale as he pointed to a group of several hundred men,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: fully armed, awaiting us. They waited till all the carts
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: had passed through the gate, then hurled down upon us
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: a shower of stones. At the same time, rushing forward
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: and maiming or killing some of the animals. Mister Goforth
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: jumped down from our cart and cried to them, take everything,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: but don't kill. His only answer was a blow. The
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: confusion that followed was so great it would be impossible
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: to describe the escape of each one in detail. Each
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: one later had his or her own testimony of that
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: mighty and merciful deliverance. But I must give the details
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: of mister Goforth's experience. One man struck him a blow
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: on the neck with a great sword wielded with two hands.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Somehow the blunt edge of the sword struck his neck.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: The blow left a wide marks almost around his neck,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: but did no further harm. Had the sharp edge struck
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: his neck, he would certainly have been beheaded. His thick
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: helmet was cut almost to pieces one blow, cutting through
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: the leather lining just over his temple, but without even
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: scratching the skin. Again, he was fell to the ground
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: with a fearful sword cut, which entered the bone of
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: the skull behind and almost clefted in two. As he fell,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: he seemed to hear distinctly a voice saying, fear not,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: they are praying for you. Rising from this blow, he
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: was again struck down by a club. As he was falling,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: almost unconscious to the ground, he saw a horse coming
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: at full speed toward him. When he became conscious again,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: he found the horse had tripped and fallen on level ground,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: so near that his tail almost touched him. The animal,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: kicking furiously, had served as a barrier between him and
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: his assailants. Well dazed and not knowing what to do,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: a man came up as if to strike, but whispered
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: leave the carts. By that time, the onlookers began to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: rush forward to get the loot, but the attacking party
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: felt that things were theirs, so desisted in their attack
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: upon us. In order to secure their booty. A word
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: as to myself and the children. Several fierce men with
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: swords jumped on my cart. One struck at the baby,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: but I parried the blow with a pillow and the
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: little fellow only received a slight scratch on the forehead.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: Then they dropped their swords and began tearing at our
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: goods at the back of the cart. Heavy boxes were
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: dragged over us, and everything was taken. Just then, a
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: dreadful looking man tried to reach us from the back
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: of the cart, with his sword missing by an inch.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: I thought he would come to the front and continue
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: his attack, but he did not. I had seen mister
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Goforth sink to the ground, covered with blood twice, and
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: had given him up for dead. Just then, Paul, who
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: had been in the last cart, jumped in, wild with
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: delight at what he seemed to think was great fun,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: for he had run through the thick of the fight,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: and dodging swords thrusts from all side, had succeeded in
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: reaching me without a scratch. A moment later, my husband
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: came to the edge of the cart, scarcely able to stand, saying,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: get down quickly, we must not delay in getting away.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: As I was getting down, one man snatched away my hat,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: another my shoes, but we were allowed to go. Ruth
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: was nowhere to be seen, and we hoped she was
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: with the missionaries who had charge of her. At the
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: time of the attack, I saw that mister Goforth's strength
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: was failing fast, for he could scarcely walk, And as
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: men began to follow, I urged him forward with the
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: baby and the other two children, and turning faced the men,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: begging them to have mercy on my children, for they
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: had begun to stone us. Some of us were black
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: for days from the blows received. Then they stopped and listened.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Then the leader said, we've killed her husband. Let her go.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: With this, they ran back to the carts. I knew
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: mister Goforth could not go far. We could see a
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: small village not far distant, and to this we hastened,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: praying as we went that the Lord would open the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: hearts of the people to receive us here. Again. Paul
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: seemed to feel no fear, but said, mother, what does
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: this put you in mind of? It puts me in
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: mind of the henty books. As we neared the village,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: men came out to drive us away, but I begged
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: them to help us. By this time mister Goforth had
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: sunk to the ground, putting the baby in an old
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: woman's arms. I knelt down beside my husband, the children
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: were crying bitterly. Mister Goforth looked as if he were dying.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: The woman standing round us were weeping. Now this was
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: too much for the men, who came forward, saying we
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: will save you. One ran and got some stuff to
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: put on the wounds, assuring us it would stop the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: flow of blood, and it did. This man helped me
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: to bandage up the wounds with the bandages made from
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: garments taken from myself and the children. They helped my
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: husband and we followed them into a little hut where
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: they laid him on a straw bed and locked us in.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: All that day, our friends had been waiting by the roadside,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: unable to proceed without carts owing to the doctor's condition.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: They had joined in one petition that God would move
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: the carters to come. Those who know China and heathen
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: carters will readily acknowledge that it was nothing short of
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: a miracle, the miracle of answered prayer that made these
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: heathen carters come, after all they had already gone through.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: For come they did, five of them, all that were needed.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Now that our luggage was gone. We learned too that
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: our faithful Chinese nurse who had charge of Ruth had
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: saved the child at the risk of her own life,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: lying upon the child and taking many cruel blows till
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: greed for loot drew the men off. We soon joined
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: the rest of the party, and by six o'clock that
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: evening we reached the large city of nang yang Fu.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: The city wall was black with people, and as we
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: entered the gate, the wild crowds crushed against our carts.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the animals staggered, and it seemed as if nothing
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: could save the carts from being overturned. Every moment or two,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: a brick or stone would be hurled against the carts,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: and that cry kill, kill, which can never be forgotten
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: when once heard, was shouted by perhaps hundreds of voices.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Yet the Lord brought us through and no weapon prospered.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: When we reached the inn, a wild mob of over
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: a thousand men filled the inn yard, and as we
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: alighted from the cart, these men literally drove us before
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: them into one room, which in a few moments was
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: packed to suffocation. For probably an hour, the crowd kept
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: crushing us into one corner. Then those outside became impatient
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: at not being able to get in, and demanded that
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: we be brought out. We managed to keep some of
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: the ladies from going out, but the rest of us, men,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: women and children stood facing that seething multitude until relief
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: came in the darkness. Why did they not kill us then? Why? Indeed,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: none but an almighty God kept that crowd back. As
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: soon as we had reached the city, a servant was
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: sent to the official demanding protection. It was dark when
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: this man returned in a state of great agitation. His
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: story was that as he was waiting for answer from
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: the official, he overheard a conversation between two soldiers and
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: gathered from what they said that the official had sent
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: a party of fifty soldiers along the road that we
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: would have to take, with the order that every one
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: of us must be put to death. The official was
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: afraid to have us killed in the city, lest he
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: should afterward be blamed. But by this plan he could
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: say Brigands had done the deed. So sure was this
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: servant that we were all to be massacred, that he
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: would remain with us no longer, but returned that night
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: to Honan with the report that we were all killed.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: A consultation was held, and the question was should we
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: stay in the city and again demand protection, or should
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: we go on trust God to open our way. The
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: latter course was decided upon, but for a long time
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: the carters utterly refused to go farther with us. Again,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: prayer opened up our way, and by two o'clock in
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: the morning all were ready to start. The official had
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: sent a few foot soldiers to guide us to the
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: right road to the waylaying party. The night was very dark,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: and as we were passing through the gate of the city,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: we noticed what seemed to be a signal lights put
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: out and drawn in. We all felt these to be
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: signals to the waylaying party ahead a short distance from
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: the city, probably about one hundred yards. Our carts suddenly stopped.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Some one ran up and whispered to mister Goforth, Paul
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  Speaker 1: and mister are missing. Search was made for them, but
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  Speaker 1: without success. A veil must be drawn. Over those terrible
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: hours of suspense. My faith seemed to fail me, and
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: I could only cry in my agony, if Paul is gone,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: can I ever trust God again? Then I remembered how
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: marvelously God had given me back my dear husband's life,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: and I just committed Paul into his hands and waited
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: to see what he would do. When all hope was
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  Speaker 1: given up of finding the missing ones, a cart was
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  Speaker 1: left behind with a trusted servant and we went on.
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  Speaker 1: Then we saw God's wonderful plan for us. While we
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: were waiting, the soldiers had fallen asleep in the carts
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: and were not aware that the carters were taking a
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  Speaker 1: side road until we had gotten miles from the city
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  Speaker 1: and beyond the reach of our would be murderers. The
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  Speaker 1: soldiers were infuriated at this discovery, but after some threatening
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: they left us and returned to the city. Thus again
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: we saw that God was, indeed, unto us, a god
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: of deliverances. Again and again that day we were surrounded
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: by mobs. Many times I held up the poor, dirty
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  Speaker 1: clothes which the Mohammedans had given us, and the story
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  Speaker 1: of how these had been given quieted the people perhaps
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  Speaker 1: more than anything else. Once the cry was raised to
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  Speaker 1: drag our children's nurse out of the cart, but as
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  Speaker 1: we cried to God for her, that people let us alone,
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  Speaker 1: and we passed on. At another time, a man snatched
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  Speaker 1: the remains of mister Goforth's helmet away from us and
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  Speaker 1: tore into pieces. I had hoped to keep it as
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  Speaker 1: a trophy should we ever get out safely. We were
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  Speaker 1: at this time in a pitiable condition. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: men had head or arm bandages. Doctor was unable to
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  Speaker 1: raise his head, while we suffered in those carts with
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  Speaker 1: nothing but the boards under us. Cannot be told. Nine
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: persons were packed in our cart, which under ordinary circumstances
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: would have held four or five. At noon, we reached
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  Speaker 1: a large city where the animals had to rest and feed.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: Then again we saw in evidence of the Lord's loving
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: kindness over us. Just as we were getting down from
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: our carts, the crowd became very threatening and in lucked
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: now as if our hour had indeed come. But at
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  Speaker 1: this critical juncture, two well dressed young men of official
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: class came through the crowd, greeting mister Goforth in great surprise.
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  Speaker 1: They had been received by him in our home in
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: Chang Tea Ho. A few words of explanation were spoken,
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  Speaker 1: and they turned quickly to the crowd and told them
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  Speaker 1: who we were and of the works at Chang Tea Ho.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: The attitude of the people changed instantly, and they made
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: way for us, giving us good rooms and food was brought,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: which was greatly needed. That noon, as one after another
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: came up to express their sympathy at Paul's loss, I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: could say nothing. I was waiting to see what God
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: would do. When mister Goforth told the young officials about
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: Paul and Mister, they were greatly concerned, and they promised
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: to send men at once to search for them. These
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  Speaker 1: friends in needs sent with us a man of the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: district to guide and help us, and also wrote an
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  Speaker 1: urgent letter to the official of the city we were
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  Speaker 1: to stay in that night, asking him to give us
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  Speaker 1: an escort and help us in every way he could.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: About four o'clock that afternoon, a man came running after
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: us with joyful news that Paul and Mister were safe
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: and would reach us that night. As I heard this news,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: my unbelief and faithlessness in the hour of testing came
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: over me with overwhelming force, and I could only bow
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: my head and weep, Oh, the goodness and mercy of God.
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  Speaker 1: Never had the love of God seemed so wonderful as
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  Speaker 1: in that hour. Could we withthink the ocean fill, where
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: the whole sky of parchment made, where every blade of
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  Speaker 1: grassic will and every man ascribed by trade to write
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: the love of God above would drain that ocean dry,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: sky to sky. That night we reached our destination about
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock, having traveled seventeen hours over those roads, with
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  Speaker 1: but a short break at noon. It was marvelous how
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: mister Goforth was sustained, for he was obliged to start
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: at once for the official's residence with the note I
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: have already referred to. On the way through the street,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: the mob about succeeded several times in getting him down
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: under their feet, but God was with him, and he
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: reached the Yemen in safety, being courteously received by the official,
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  Speaker 1: who promised us protection and sent him back to the
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  Speaker 1: inn under escort. When Paul and Mister arrived that night,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: they tried in vain to wake me, but nature had
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: to have her way. I knew nothing till I wakened
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: with a start at about two a m. Jumping up,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: I started to look for Paul, and never can I
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: forget the scene. The whole party was lying on the
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: bare earthen floor, practically without bedding or mattresses. A word
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: concerning the experiences of mister and Paul. The two had
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: got down from their cart and were walking behind. In
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: some way, they missed the road in the dark and
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: became separated from us. During that day they were repeatedly
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: in the gravest danger. On one occasion, when surrounded by
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: a violent mob and one man had raised a club
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: above Paul's had to strike him down, Mister felt impelled
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: by some unseen power to shout out, we are not
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: Roman Catholics, but Protestants. At this the man lowered his club,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: exclaiming why these are not the bad foreign devils, but
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: the good foreign devils, like those missionaries at Chao Chi Kio,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: China inland mission At this same place, the hearts of
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: the people seemed turned toward them in a wonderful way.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: One man gave Paul one hundred cash five cents to
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: buy some food. Another man carried the lad on his
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: back for miles to give his feet a rest, they
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: were so sore. This same man, when he could carry
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Paul no longer, ran ahead to try and find us.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: When they reached the inn where we had been so
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: held by the two Chinese gentlemen, they found that these
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: friends had food prepared and a barrel waiting. Also a
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: guide ready to lead them to us. Less than an
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: hour from the time I awakened, we were on the
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: road again. The official was true to his promise, and
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: a large mounted escort accompanied us. That day. We were
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: on the road twenty hours reached fan Chang at midnight.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Here we found the engineer's party waiting for us, with
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: boats hired, but we were obliged to remain twenty four
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: hours in the most loathsome inn we ever had the
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: misfortune to be in in China. It was an unspeakable
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: relief to get into the house boats, even though they
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: only had bare boards to lie on and the boat
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: people's food to eat. We were ten days going down
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: stream to han Kow. One after the other became ill.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: When still a day from han Kow, a steam tug
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: met us with provisions. Our children cried at the sight
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: of bread and milk. We were not allowed to stop
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: long enough at han Koo, as we had hoped to
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: get clothes and other necessaries, but we were obliged to
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: hasten on by the first steamer, which left the following morning.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: I was obliged to borrow garments for myself and the
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: children from our fellow passengers at Shanghai. The streets were
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: being paraded, and every preparation was being made for an attack.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: We learned with deep sorrow of the death of many
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: dear friends at the hands of the boxers. Ordered home
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: by the first steamer, without anything left to us but
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: the old clothes we had on at the time of
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: the attack. How could we get ready in such a
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: short time for the long home voyage. There was no
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: lack of money, for our board had cabled all we needed.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: The question that fazed us was how could I get
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: clothes made for six of us in such a short time,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: with Chinese tailors too busy to help, no machine to
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: be had, and no ready made clothes to be bought
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: except for mister Goforth and Paul. Again, I found that
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: man's extremity was but God's opportunity. He was true to
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: his promise, God shall supply all your need. Even as
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: I knelt in an agony of prayer, beseeching God's help
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: and asking definitely that someone should be sent to help
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: with the sewing, two ladies were at the door asking
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: for me. These were perfect strangers, but had seen our
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: names among the recent refugees, and God moved them to
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: come and alle for their assistance. They worked for me
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: night and day until we had to go on board
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: the steamer. Never shall I forget their Christian fellowship and
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: practical help at that time, But in the rush to
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: get the older children ready, baby Wallace's clothes were neglected.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: There was nothing for it but to take the materials
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: and make them for him on the voyage. In this
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: connection came a most wonderful and precious evidence of God's
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: power to answer prayer. For the first few days of
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: the journey, I worked early and late, trying to make
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: something for the little one, who had scarcely anything to wear.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: But as we were nearing Yokohama, I realized that I
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: had almost reached the end of my strength. My needle
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: refused to work. Try as I would, I could not
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: even see where to put the needle. Polding up my work,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: I went down to the state room, and kneeling down,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: I spread the work before the Lord. Too far gone
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: to agonize in prayer, I could only quietly, almost mutely,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: just tell him how the poor child had no clothes.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: Rising with a great sense of the burden having been lifted,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: I put the work away, locking it in a trunk,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: then went up on the deck and lay down, almost
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: insensible from exhaustion. How long a time passed I do
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: not know, but it could not have been more than
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: half an hour when someone came and touched me, saying,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: we have dropped anchor in Yokohama Bay and a large
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: bundle has been thrown up on deck from the lighter
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: for you For me, I cried, surely not, I know
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: no one in Japan. Then I thought it is the answer.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Come going down, I found a letter from missus O
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: E of the China Inland Mission. She said that her
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: little son, the same age as Baby Wallace, had died
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: four months before, and the Lord had pressed her to
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: send his complete outfit to me for my child. Opening
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: the parcel, I found not only everything the child could
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: possibly need for a year or more, but much else.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Had some one stood beside that dear sister and told
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: her what I most needed. She could not have done differently. Yes,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: surely someone did direct her loving hands, and someone just
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: used her as one of his channels, for she lived
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: near to him and was an open channel. Three days later,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: my own collapse came, but praise his great name, he
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: was with me in the darkness and brought me through
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: end of chapter five of How I Know God Answers
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: Prayer by Rosalind go Forth. Chapter six of How I
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: Know God Answers Prayer by Rosalind go Forth. This librifox
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain How I Know God
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: Answers Prayer, Chapter six, Proving God's Faithfulness nineteen o two
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: to nineteen o eight. The safest place is the path
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: of duty. One of the results of our gracious and
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: merciful deliverance from the hands of the boxers was an
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: increased desire to make our lives tell in the service
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: of God and be spent for him. Our heavenly Father
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: saw this and just took us at our word and
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: let us out into the path, which meant absolute surrender,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: as I had never known it before. It is so
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: true that God will be no man's debtor. When he
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: asks for and receives our all, he gives in return
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: that which is above price, his own presence. The price
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: is not great when compared with what he gives in return.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: It is our blindness and our unwillingness to yield that
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: makes it seem great. The following story has been asked
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: for many times, believing that it has a lesson for others,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: I give it, though to do so means lifting the
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: veil from a very sacred part of my life. After
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: the boxer experience, my husband returned to China in nineteen
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: o one, and with my children, I left for China
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: in the summer of nineteen o two, leaving the two
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: eldest children at the Sheifu schools, and wrote to Honan.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: Mister goph Forth met me at Teintson, and together we
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: traveled by riverboat Inland, a journey of about twenty four days.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: During those long, quiet days on the riverboat, my husband
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: unfolded to me a carefully thought out plan for future
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: mission work. He reminded me that six missionaries from a
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: mission station which had been destroyed by the boxers were
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: now permanently stationed at shang Tee, and that the main station,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: now fully equipped, no longer needed us as before. He
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: felt that the time had come when we should give
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: ourselves to the evangelization of the great regions north and
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: northeast of shang Tea, regions which up to that time
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: had been scarcely touched by the Gospel because of lack
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: of workers. His plan was that we, husband and wife,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: with our children, should go and live and work among
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: the people. To make this possible, a native compound would
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: be rented in the center, where we would stay a
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: month for our visit, leaving behind an evangelist to carry
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: on the work, and we would revisit this and other
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: places so opened as many times as possible in the year.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: What this proposition meant to me can scarcely be understood
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: by those unfamiliar with China and Chinese life. Smallpox, diphtheria,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: scarlet fever, and other contagious diseases are chronic epidemics, and
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: China outside the parts ruled by foreigners, is absolutely devoid
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: of sanitation. Four of our children had died. To take
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: three little ones then with me into such conditions and
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: dangers seemed literally like stepping with them over a precipice
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: in the dark and expecting to be kept. But on
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: the other hand, I had the language and experience for
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: just such work. The need was truly appalling, and there
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: was no other woman to do it. In my innermost soul,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: I knew the call had come from God, but I
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: would not pay the price. My plea in refusing to
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: enter that life was the risk of the children. Again
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: and again, my husband urged that the safest place for
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: myself and the children was the path of duty. That
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: I could not keep them in our comfortable home at
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: shang Tea, but God could keep them anywhere. Still I refused.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: Just before reaching our station, he begged me to reconsider
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: my decision. When I gave a final refusal, his only
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: answer was I fear for the children. The very day
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: after reaching home, our dear Wallace was taken ill. For
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: weeks we fought for his life. At last, the crisis
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: passed and he began to recover. Then my husband started
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: off alone on his first trip. He had been gone
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: only a day or two when our precious baby, Constance,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: a year old, was taken down with the SAME's disease
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: that Wallace had. From the first there seemed little or
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: no hope. The doctors, a nurse, and all the little
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: mission circle joined in the fight for her life. Her
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: father was sent for but arrived just as she was
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: losing consciousness. A few hours later. When we were kneeling
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: round her bed waiting for the end, my eyes seemed
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: suddenly opened to what I had been doing. I had
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: dared to fight against Almighty God. In the moments that followed,
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: God revealed himself to me in such love and majesty
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: and glory that I gave myself up to him with
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: unspeakable joy. Then I knew that I had been making
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: an awful mistake, and that I could indeed safely trust
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: my children to Him wherever he might lead. One thing
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: only seemed plain that I must follow where God should lead.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: I saw at last that God must come first. Before
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: the precious body was laid away, preparations for our first
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: trip were begun. Was God faithful to the vision he
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: had given me? Or did he allow the children to
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: suffer in the years that followed when months each year
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: were spent with them right out among the people. As
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: I write this, eighteen years have passed since we started
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: on that first trip, and none of our children have died.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: Never had we as little sinickness as during that life.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: Never had we so much evidence of God's favor and
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: blessing in a hundred ways as may be gathered from
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: the definite testimonies which follow without one exception, Every place
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: in which we stayed for a month and opened as
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: my husband had planned, became in time a growing church,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: and I found to my surprise that I was able
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: to give more time to the children, that I was
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: able to guard them better when on those trips than
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: when in the shame tea station for the mission compound
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: was large, and often the children were out of my
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: sight for hours at a time, whereas the outside native
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: compounds we lived in were so small that children were
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: always within sight and reach. Even when groups of women
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: were listening to the gospel, I was able to direct
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: the children's lessons. As I look back on that time,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: my heart is filled with overflowing gratitude to God for
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: the wonderful grace and strength He gave for that life.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: My great regret is that I did not keep a
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: record of answers to prayer. I find it most difficult
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: to record just what asking and getting things from God
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: meant at that time, but it now seems to me
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  Speaker 1: to have been the very foundation of the whole life.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: The instances of answers to prayer here recorded are simply
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: the ones connected with that life which stand out most
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  Speaker 1: clearly in my memory of those years. The first answer
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: came the morning after our dear Constance died, and was
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: the one that had the greatest, most far reaching effect
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: on the New Life and its work. As I thought
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: of facing the crowds of heathen woman day by day
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: and what it would mean to carry on aggressive evangelism outside,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: there was one need I felt must be met, that
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: of a Bible woman. As I prayed for direction, a
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: missus Wang she Shang came to mind as the one
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: I should ask. But when I laid my request before
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: her that she come with me, she burst into tears, saying,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: I dare not. I have only one child left and
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: it would risk her life too much. Seeing how she felt,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: I did not urge her, but told her to go
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  Speaker 1: and pray about it for a day and bring me
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: her answer after the funeral that night. When she came
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: that evening, her face was shining through tears as she said, Oh,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: my shepherd mother, I will go. If you are willing
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: to risk your children for the sake of my sisters,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: how much more should I? Eighteen years have passed since
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: that day, I would need to write a volume to
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: record all that missus Wang meant to me in those years. Yes,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: and the work. As the years passed, she became my
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  Speaker 1: beloved companion, sharing in all the responsibilities and hardships of
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: that life, and also in its joys. I realized more
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: and more that she was indeed a God given co worker.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: Those circumstances have led me away from that life. She
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: still remains and works for her sisters in the Shang
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: Tea Church. One of the hardest works words a missionary
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: can get from his home board is the word retrench
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: My husband and I were on one of our evangelistic
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: tours north of shang Tea. Every door seemed wide open
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  Speaker 1: before us, and the time ripe for a specially aggressive
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: campaign of evangelism for the Heathen. But just as we
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: were planning for this word reached us from our station
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: treasurer of a message received from the home board that
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: funds were low and retrenchment must be carried out along
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  Speaker 1: all lines. To us, this meant dismissing our helpers and
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: a general curtailing of our work. We faced the question squarely.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: Our own tithe had been long overdrawn, How then could
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: we support the men we had and go on with
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: the work which was opening so gloriously before us after
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: years of hard pioneer preparation. But we decided to go
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: on as we had planned, and to trust God for
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: the necessary funds, believing that though for the time being
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: the Home Church had disappointed us God, God would not
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: fail us. The following Friday, a home mail reached us,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: in which was a letter from a lady in New Zealand.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: The writer said she had read a letter of ours
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: in the Life of Faith and wished to support an
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  Speaker 1: evangelist under us. This relieved us of the support of
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  Speaker 1: one man, but there were many other needs as yet unmet.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: The following Monday, when our next mail was forwarded to us,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: a letter came from a lady in Australia. Inclosing a
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: draft ample to meet every special need in the work
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: for a year to come. She stated very plainly that
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: she did not wish the money put into the general
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: funds of the mission, but to be used by ourselves
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: in any way we thought best. Indeed, had she known
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: the special circumstances in which the letter would find us,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: she could scarcely have written more exactly to fit our case. Again,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: a year after this experience of God's faithfulness to meet
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: all our needs, we began to feel the need of
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: special funds for the work. My husband, as usual, seemed
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: quite sure that we should keep on as we had
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: been doing, and that the money needed would be sent.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: In spite of all the blessed lessons of the past,
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: my faith seemed to fail me, and I spoke decidedly
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: against using our salary when we needed it all for
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: ourselves and our children's education. We were traveling homeward by
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  Speaker 1: cart at the time, and the matter was dropped, though
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: I felt my husband was hurt by my lack of faith.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: When we reached home that evening, a letter from a
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: lady in Canada was awaiting my husband. He read it first,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: and I cannot forget the look on his face as
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  Speaker 1: he handed it to me with the words I told
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: you so as near as I can recall it. The
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  Speaker 1: letter said, my mother and I are strangers to you,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: never having seen or heard either you or your wife.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: But my mother, who is an invalid, has for some
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: time been restless because of a conviction that has come
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: over her that she should send you some money. So
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: to quiet my mother, I am sending you fifty dollars.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: As I read the letter, I certainly did feel ashamed
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: of my lack of faith. In writing our acknowledgment, I
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: told how wonderful an opportune. The gift had been A
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: couple of months or so later came a reply telling
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  Speaker 1: us that the invalid mother had passed away soon after
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: my letter reached them, and that the story of how
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: God used her in this matter greatly strengthened her faith,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: blessing and helping her during the closing days of her life.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: On one occasion, when we were traveling from huan Seen
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: to pen Cheng, we reached the town of Hot Sun
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: late in the afternoon, expecting to stay over night, But
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: on our arrival we found that the Christian woman who
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: had sent to arrange for our commendation had failed to
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: get us a place, every one absolutely refusing to take
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: us in. While the animals were feeding and we were
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: trying to eat our dinner of Chinese dough strings in
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: the midst of a curious crowd, my husband told the
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: Chinese to go out again and look for a place
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: where we prayed. We dared not close our eyes lest
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  Speaker 1: the superstitious heathen crowd crushing against us on all sides,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: would take fright, thinking we were mesmerizing them. So we
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: just lifted up our hearts silently to our father, and
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: before many minutes had passed. Indeed, before we had finished
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: our meal, the Christian returned greatly rejoiced, saying, a wealthy
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: man has offered you a fine empty place which has
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: just been fixed over, and you can have it as
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: long as you like, free of rent. For three days
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: we preached in that place, morning, noon and night to
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: great crowds, and a work was begun which has gone
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: on ever since. There were times when my faith was
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: severely tested, and I feared too often I did not
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: stand the test. But oh how patient God is with
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: us in our human weakness, Like as a father pitieth,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: so the Lord pitieth. The Chinese have often said to me,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: your children seem made for this life. But I know
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: it was God's great goodness. He knew how how hard
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: the life was, and how difficult it would have been
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: for me to continue that work had the children been
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: peevish or hard to manage. Time and time again, we
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: had to get the little ones up before daybreak to
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: start on a cart journey, but I do not remember
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: that they ever even cried. They would just wake up
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: enough to get dressed and ask, sleepily, are we going again, mamma,
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: And then go off to sleep as soon as we
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: were settled in our carts. On one occasion, arriving at
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: a certain town, we found the place in which we
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: were to stay unfit for the children. It was simply horrible.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: On either side of us, almost reaching to our door,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: were two great pig sties Chinese pig sties. In front
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: of the door were eight or ten great vessels filled
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: with fermenting stuff, which had been there all summer, and
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: which added to the other varied and oppressive odors. I
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: greatly feared for the children and wanted to leave at once,
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: but my husband seemed calmly certain of the Lord's power
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: to keep them from all harm. On the second evening,
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: the youngest child became very feverish. Mister Goforth was holding
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: a meeting with the men. I was almost overwhelmed with
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: fear lest the child had diphtheria. Kneeling down beside him,
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: I cried to the Lord, as only a mother under
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: like circumstances could pray. At last, tired out, I fell
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: asleep on my knees. Awakened by the entrance of my husband,
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: I felt the child's head again, and it seemed cooler,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: and the child was quieter. The following day he was
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: quite well, is it much wonder I can say? I
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: know God answers prayer. Returning from our summer holiday the
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: first of September nineteen twelve, we hoped to find a
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: place rented at a certain large center where we had
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: planned to begin work, But to our disappointment, learned that
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: the evangelists had secured premises in a small market village
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: where there was just one Christian. There was nothing to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: do but go there, though it seemed almost useless, for
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: it was the busiest season for those farming people. On
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: our way to this place, we prayed much that the
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: Lord would prepare the people and open their hearts to
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: the gospel. We had not been there many days when
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: we became convinced that we had been led there and
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: that the Lord was opening the hearts of the people
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: in a most unusual way. Crowds of men and women
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: heard the preaching every day our evening gospel meetings with
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: organ and hymns scroll were crowded out on the street.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: Everywhere we met the utmost friendliness, and before our month's
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: visit was ended, we had the joy of seeing some
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: of the leading people in the village and district come
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: out boldly for Christ. One was the chief doctor, another
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: was the headman in the market. In the store through
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: which we women had to pass to get to the
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: evening meeting, there were three men and a young lad
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: of fifteen. All of these were brought to Christ. The
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: men were opium users, gamblers, men of evil lives. Two
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: of them are now preachers of the Gospel, and one
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: is the leading man in the little growing church. There
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: had I time and space, I could go multiplying cases
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: where the same results have followed. When the Cross of
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: Christ has been pivot of all Christian teaching, and prayer
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: has been the source of power. On one of the
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: early visits to the city of ling Cheng, a woman
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: came with a little child whose foot was terribly burned.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: The whole foot was badly swollen, the inflammation reaching some
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: distance up the leg. The child was feverish and seemed
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: in a serious condition. It happened that on that trip
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: I had forgotten to bring the simple remedies which I
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: was accustomed to take out with me. So the woman
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: was told nothing could be done, But she begged so
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: piteously that I could not turn away. Lifting up my
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: heart in prayer, I asked the Lord to guide me
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: if there was anything I could do. Even while I prayed,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: the thought of a bread poultice came to mind. This
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: remedy seemed almost absurd. I had never heard of such
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: a thing being used before under like circumstances, but I
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: resolved to try it. Twice a day. The foot was
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: cleansed and put in the poultice, and it was really
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: wonderful to see how it healed. We were there ten days,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: and when we left the foot was almost completely well.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: The mother, father, the child, herself, and indeed the whole
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: family became Christians. On a later visit, I examined the
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: foot and found not even the sign of a scar remaining.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: I told this incident not long ago to a medical doctor,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: and he said, why there is no miracle in that
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: it was just up to date hygiene, giving nature a
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: chance by cleanliness. I replied, doctor, to me, the miracle
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: lay not in the poultice, but in God's telling me
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: what to use. And now it is to me all
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: the more a miracle of prayer, since you say it
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: was up to date hygienic treatment. At the same place,
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: some years later, we were conducting special tent meetings for
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: Christians in the day time and for the Heathen at night.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: Just after our meetings began, the weather turned bitterly cold,
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: with wind and sleety rain. The tent was like a
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: drafty ice house. My husband caught a severe cold, which
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: became worse each day. He had fever and severe pains
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: in head and chest, but would not give up his meetings.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: One noon, he came from the meeting looking very ill
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: and lay down to rest till the afternoon meeting. I
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: determined to take the Christians into my confidence and tell
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: them of my anxiety for mister Goforth. So some time
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: before the afternoon meeting, I slipped out and called them
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: into the tent, telling them of my husband's condition and
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: asking them to pray for him. Oh what a wave
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: of earnest heart. Flow of prayer went up without a
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: moment's pause. The tears came to my eyes as I thought,
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: surely God will answer such prayers. Then, fearing my husband
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: might arrive, I gave out a him. A few moments
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: later he walked into the tent in his old brisk way,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: looking quite well. At the close of the meeting, he
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: told me that shortly after he heard me go out.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: The pain in his head and chests ceased, The fever
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: seemed to leave him, and when he started for the
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: tent he felt quite well. The symptoms did not return.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: When on a visit to a certain outstation, after being
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: there two whole days, scarcely any woman had come to
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: see us. We were so circumstanced that I could not
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: leave the children. The third day, I became so burdened
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: in prayer that I could only shut myself up in
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: an empty room and cry to the Lord to send
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: women to us, as he knew I could not leave
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: the children. From that day we always had plenty of
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: visitors to keep us busy, either Christian woman studying or
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: heathen woman listening to the gospel. At su Chow, the
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: first place we opened together, the people seemed much set
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: against us. After the first period of curiosity was over,
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: no one came to hear the gospel. As we had
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: a nice place for the children to play in with
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: their faithful nurse, the one who saved Ruth's life in
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: nineteen hundred, Missus Waging and I determined to go out
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: each afternoon and try to reach the heathen woman with
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: the gospel. Before going out, we also prayed the Lord
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: to open a door to us for preaching, and as
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: I now recall that time, never once did we return
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: home without being invited into some home to preach, or
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: at least being asked to sit on a doorstep and
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: tell of a savior from sin. One of the most
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: outstanding evidences of God's favor and blessing was seen at
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: this time in the way he provided my husband with
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: native helpers. To carry on the plan of work we
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: had adopted required a good force of trusty evangelists. Time
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: and again we looked to the Lord for men and
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: woman to help us, and the answer always came, as
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: my husband always seemed to have plenty of men to
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: help him. He was frequently asked for evangelists by his
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: fellow missionaries of both our own and other missions. I
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: was first opposed to his giving away his best men,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: but he would answer, the Lord has been good to me,
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: should I be less generous with my brethren? And it
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: certainly was remarkable how whenever he gave a really valuable evangelist,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: another man even better was raised up shortly after. The
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: secret of his getting men may be seen best through
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: words of his own taken from a letter to a
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: friend in Canada about the time of which I am
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: now writing. We came to this little market town in
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: September of last year. My wife had two women workers.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: I had mister Tongue, the old evangelist, and a young
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: high school graduate without experience, and the only Christian man
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: in the district, very ignorant, but with this to recommend him.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: That he was converted or quickened by the Holy Spirit
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: in the Chang Tea Revival, and was intensely in earnest.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: We were here only about twenty days when a dozens
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: began to inquire, among whom whom were robbers, opium sauce
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: and gamblers. The work went on all day and well
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: on till midnight. We were all tiring out. We had
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: not enough workers. It was like a very heavy burden
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: that forced me to my knees. I told the Lord
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: that he was the Lord of the harvest, and that
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: he must send more harvesters. There was a time of
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: intense looking to God, almost amounting to agony, and then
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: the burden lifted, and I knew that God had answered.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: I told my wife that I was sure that God
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: was going to send me workers. Now, what is the result.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: Since then, he has sent me two Chinese b a's,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: both excellent speakers. He moved an excellent elder to give
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: up his business, and he has been appointed an evangelist
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: at this center. A scholar who was an opium user
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: and gambler got converted last year. His progress has been
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: most remarkable, and it looks as if he is going
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  Speaker 1: to make one of the front rank preachers. Also, two
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  Speaker 1: brothers here who were among the first converts of last year,
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  Speaker 1: helped to preach their father, also a convert of last year,
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: providing their food. Another gracious evidence of God's overruling providence
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  Speaker 1: was seen in the way we, especially the children, were
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  Speaker 1: kept from contracting contagious diseases. The Chinese carry their children
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  Speaker 1: about everywhere in their arms, even when sick with all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of contagious diseases. I give the following instance to
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  Speaker 1: show how impossible it was to know when one would
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  Speaker 1: run into danger. Going to a certain village for a
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  Speaker 1: day's preaching. I took with me little Mary, then three
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  Speaker 1: years of age. We were waited on by a Christian
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  Speaker 1: woman who was most kind and attentive, bringing water and
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  Speaker 1: food for both Mary and myself. Being much taken up
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  Speaker 1: with preaching to the woman. It did not occur to
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  Speaker 1: me to ask why she kept her baby's face covered,
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  Speaker 1: for the child was always in her arms. Just as
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  Speaker 1: we were leaving, I asked her. Then she uncovered the
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  Speaker 1: baby's face, and to my horror, I found that the
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  Speaker 1: child was suffering from small p For weeks I watched
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  Speaker 1: Mary's temperature, but nothing developed. Through repeated instances of this kind,
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  Speaker 1: I came to see that mister Goforth was right when
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  Speaker 1: he said, the safest place for yourself and the children
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  Speaker 1: is in the path of duty. As I recall those
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  Speaker 1: years of touring life with our children, words fail me
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  Speaker 1: to tell of all the Lord's goodness to them and
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  Speaker 1: to me. Though there were many hard, hard places, these
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  Speaker 1: were but opportunities for special grace and help. Many times,
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  Speaker 1: when discouraged almost to the point of never going out
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  Speaker 1: again with the children, there would come evidence that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord was using our family life lived among the people
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  Speaker 1: to win them to Christ. Then I would take new
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  Speaker 1: courage and go again. Oh it is so true that
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  Speaker 1: we may trust him fully all for us to do
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  Speaker 1: Those who trust him holy find him wholly true. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter six, proving God's faithfulness Chapter seven of How
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  Speaker 1: I Know God Answers Prayer by Rosalind go Forth. This
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  Speaker 1: the Brivox recording, is in the public domain. How I
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  Speaker 1: Know God Answers Prayer Chapter seven, the story of One
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  Speaker 1: Furlough nineteen o eight to nineteen ten. Call upon me
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  Speaker 1: in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee and
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt glorify me Psalm fifty fifteen. In the summer
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen o eight, I was obliged to return to
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  Speaker 1: Canada with five of our children, leaving mister Goforth in
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: China for the revival work. Reaching Toronto, I learned that
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  Speaker 1: my eldest son was at death's door from repeated attacks
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  Speaker 1: of romatic fever. He was then almost a day's journey away.
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  Speaker 1: On my way there, As I recalled the time in
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  Speaker 1: which he had been given back to us from the
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  Speaker 1: very gates of death, my faith was strengthened to believe
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  Speaker 1: for his recovery again. But as a p it became
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  Speaker 1: very clear that the answer to my petition depended on myself.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, that I must yield myself and my
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  Speaker 1: will to God. I had been planning to take no
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  Speaker 1: meetings during that furlough, but to devote myself wholly to
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  Speaker 1: my children. I confessed the sin of planning my own life,
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  Speaker 1: and definitely covenanted with the Lord that if he would
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  Speaker 1: raise my son for his service, I would take meetings
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  Speaker 1: or do anything as he opened the way for the
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: care of the children. There were six difficult doors, however,
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  Speaker 1: that would have to be opened, not one, but all
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  Speaker 1: before I could possibly go out and speak for Christ
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: and China, as God seemed to be asking. First, the
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: Lord would need to restore my son to complete health,
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  Speaker 1: as I could never feel justified in leaving a sick child. Second,
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  Speaker 1: he would need to restore my own health, for I
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  Speaker 1: had been ordered to the hospital for an operation. Third,
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  Speaker 1: he would need to keep all the children well. Worth
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  Speaker 1: a servant must be sent to take care of the house,
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  Speaker 1: though my income was so small that a servant seemed
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  Speaker 1: out of the question, and only the strictest economy was
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  Speaker 1: making both ends meet. Fifth, a Christian lady would need
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to take care of the children and
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  Speaker 1: act as the housekeeper in my absence from home. Sixth,
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  Speaker 1: sufficient money would need to be sent to meet the
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  Speaker 1: extra expenses incurred by my leaving home. Yet As I
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: laid these difficulties before the Lord, I received the definite
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  Speaker 1: assurance that he would open the way. My son was
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: brought back to Toronto on a stretcher, the doctor not
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: allowing him to raise his head, But on arrival he
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: would not obey orders, declaring that he was so well
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: he could not and would not remain. Still, fearing the
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: consequences of his disobeying orders, I telephoned for the doctor
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  Speaker 1: to come at once. On his arrival, he gave the
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: lad a thorough examination and then said, well, I cannot
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  Speaker 1: make him out. All I can say is let him
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: do as he pleases. Within a month, the boy was
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: going back to his high school, apparently quite well. Some
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: months later he applied for a position as forester under
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: the government. He had to pass through the hands of
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: the official doctor. My son told him of his recent
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: illness and of what the doctor had said concerning his heart.
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  Speaker 1: But this physician replied, in spite of all you have
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: told me, I can discover nothing whatever the matter with you,
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  Speaker 1: and will therefore give you a clear bill of health.
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  Speaker 1: As for myself, I did not go to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: for all the symptoms that had seemed to require it,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: left me, and I became perfectly well. A servant was
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: sent to me who did her work sympathetically as helping
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: me to do the Lord's work. A married niece living
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: near offered to stay in the home whenever I needed
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: to be absent, And so there remained but one condition
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: unfulfilled the money. But I believed this would come as
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: I went forward, and it did each month that followed.
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  Speaker 1: As I made up my accounts, I found that my
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: receipts ex seated my expenditures sufficiently to enable me to
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: spend money for work in China and to purchase things
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: which I needed for China, including an organ. All these
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: accounts were laid before our beloved Mission Board Secretary, who
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: approved them. Under these circumstances, I dared not refuse invitations
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: to speak, Yet so weak was my faith. For months,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: I never left home for a few days without dreading
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: lest something should happen to the children during my absence.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: I even accepted meetings with the proviso that if the
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: children needed me, I must fail to keep my appointment.
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  Speaker 1: But as the days, in weeks and months passed and
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: all went well, I learned to trust be still be
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: strong to day. But Lord tomorrow, What of tomorrow? Lord,
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: shall there be rest from toil, be truce from sorrow?
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  Speaker 1: Did I not die for THEE? Do I not live
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: for THEE? Leave me tomorrow? In giving the following, I
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: wished to make clear that had I been living a
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: life of ease or self indulgence, I could not have
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  Speaker 1: been justified in expecting God to undertake for me in
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: such matters as are here recorded. It must be remembered
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: that I had stepped out into a life which meant
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: trusting for everything. Before leaving China for Canada, my husband
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: had said to me, do not staint the children with apples.
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  Speaker 1: Give them all they want. But when I began housekeeping,
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: I found this was not very easy to do. Apples
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: were expensive, and the appetites of my six children for
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: them was insatiable. However, I began by buying a few
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: small baskets, and then I did not need to buy more.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: For apples came in a most wonderful way, first in baskets, then,
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: as the season advanced, in barrels. These came from many
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: different sources, and in some cases long distances express paid
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: to the door. On one occasion, a barrel of large,
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: hard greenings came just as we had finished the last barrel.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: The children complained that they were too hard to eat
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: and begged me to buy them some snows, very expensive
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: but delicious apples for eating. I had only purchased one
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: small basket of snows when a large supply, almost a barrelful,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: came from a distant friend. I feel that the Lord
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: saw that I had given up all for him, so
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: just showed how he could provide, thus evidencing his love
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: and care for my dear children. We had set up
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: housekeeping at the end of the fruit season, and so
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: I had not been able to do canning for winter.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: Use that winter, again and again gifts of canned fruit came,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: sometimes from unknown sources. Altogether seventy jars of the finest
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: fruit were sent to us. I will give the details
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: of just one of these gifts. Shortly before leaving home
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: for ten days, the servant informed me that the canned
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: fruit was finished. Accordingly, I went down and ordered enough
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: dried fruit to last till I should return. On reaching home,
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: I was greeted at the door by a rush from
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  Speaker 1: the children, all trying at once to tell me that
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: a lovely Valentine had just leading me back to the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: they showed me the table covered with twenty jars of
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: the most delicious looking fruit and a large can of
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: maple syrup. On a card accompanying the gift was written
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: a Valentine for our dear substitute in China from her
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: sisters in Renfrew. Early in the winter, it became evident
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: that a telephone was a necessity with my numerous calls
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: and engagements. I hesitated about going into this expense, not
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: being quite sure that it was right to use in
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: that way the money given me. At last, I prayed
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: that the Lord would show me his will in the
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: matter by sending me half the amount needed for the
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: telephone within a certain time, if it was right for
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: me to get it before the time expired. The money
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: had come, so I got the telephone. As the weather
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: became cold, I began to suffer on the long drives
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: in the country to appointments and was soon longing for
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: a fur coat. I consulted our mission secretary as to whether,
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: if sufficient money were given me, I could put it
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: into a fur coat. The answer was a decided yes.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: There was no doubt that the coat was a necessity.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: In the Lord's work, so I began to pray the
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: Lord to send the money quickly, for the cold was severe.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: In less than two weeks I received the money needed,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: and of course got the coat. The ladies of the
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: Winnipeg Presbyterial had arranged a series of meetings for me
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: in Winnipeg, Brandon, and other places in that vicinity. About
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: ten in all. The collections from the meetings were to
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: defray my traveling expenses, which would amount to over one
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. On my way by train from Toronto to Winnipeg,
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: I caught a severe cold which settled in my throat
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: and chest. I did not want the woman to be
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: disappointed and also put to all the expense if I
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: failed them. Just before reaching Winnipeg, I was enabled to
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: commit myself definitely into the Lord's hands for strength and
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: voice for the meetings. The days that followed can never
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: be forgotten, for the bodily weakness, fever, and throat troubles
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: were removed only while I was giving my addresses. In
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  Speaker 1: each case, though so hoarse before and after speaking as
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: to be scarcely able to make myself heard of a whisper,
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: my voice cleared for the address. For example, while at
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: doctor and Missus C. W. Gordon's home the sunday I
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: was to speak in Winnipeg, I was advertised to speak
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: that night in doctor Gordon's church. At the supper table,
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: I asked Doctor Gordon if he would be ready to
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: speak should I fail. Just before my time came to speak,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: I slipped up to the platform behind Doctor Gordon, who
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: was praying, and oh how I cried to the Lord
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: for help and courage, for the church was packed, and
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: even the Sunday school room partitions were opened to accommodate
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: the crowd. My throat was as if in a vice,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: and I felt weak and ill. But as doctor Gordon
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: introduced me, I stepped forward, possessed by a feeling of
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: wonderful calm and absolute confidence. It seemed I could just
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: feel one like unto the son of Man beside me,
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: and never had I felt so completely and only at
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: channel for more than an hour. I spoke so that
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: everyone heard distinctly, but when I sat down, my throat
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: tightened as before. Doctor Gordon told me later that he
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: had a man sit in the most difficult place in
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: which to hear, and that he had heard every word
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: so was till the end of my appointments. On the
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: homeward journey. I asked the Lord either to heal my
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: throat or provide a way for me to get a
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: needed rest from speaking, for I had many appointments awaiting
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: me in Ontario. A few days after reaching home, four
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: of my children were taken down with measles. During the
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: week I was in quarantine with them, my throat received
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: the rest it needed and became quite restored. One day
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: the following early summer, in looking over the children's clothes,
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: I found that there was so much to be done.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: I was fairly overwhelmed. I saw it was quite impossible
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: to do the necessary sewing and keep my appointments too.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: The question I weighed heavily was should I cancel the
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: meetings for which I had given my word. My husband
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: urged me to buy ready made clothes, but I knew
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: how expensive they would be and could not bring myself
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 1: to do so. I went alone and laid my burden
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: before the Lord, praying that if he wanted me to
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: speak further for China, he would show his will by
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: sending me some gift that would enable me to get
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: ready made clothes for the children. A few days later,
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: I was speaking at a presbyterial gathering in western Ontario.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: At the close of the evening meeting, an old gentleman
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: put into my hands some money. I asked him what
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: he wished me to use it for, and he replied,
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: for your children, use it in a way that will
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: help you be free for God's work. My heart rose
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: in thanksgiving, and I decided to accept it as the
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: token I had asked of the Lord. On my return
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: to Toronto, I spent this gift in buying ready made
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: clothes for the children, to save my time and strength
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: for the Lord's work. When busy in my home one day,
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: the thought of two dear friends in the China Inland
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: mission kept coming constantly to me, and I began to
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: wonder if I should not send them some money. Looking
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: into my purse, I found I had only fifty cents
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: on hand. I put the matter out of my mind,
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: with the thought that if the Lord wanted me to
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: send them anything, he would provide away. That afternoon's mail
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: brought a letter from a distant place in Ontario, where
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: a year before I had visited and spoken for a friend.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: The letter was from the treasurer of the Christian Endeavor
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: Society for which I had spoken. He enclosed five dollars
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: and said the money was to be given me at
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: the time I spoke for them, but had been overlooked.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: My first thought was to return it, as it would
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: be dishonoring my friend to accept money for such a service.
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: And then I remembered my friends for whom I wanted
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: money and decided to send the five dollars to them.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: My husband, returning the following morning, handed me another five
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: to put with it, and the ten dollars was sent off.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: In due course. A reply came from my friend saying
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: that the very morning my letter arrived, they both had
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: been given assurance that a certain sum would come for
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: which they had been praying. This was to meet a
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: need which they did not wish to bring before their board.
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: My letter brought the ten dollars, and another letter in
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: the afternoon's mail contained a sum which, with mine, exactly
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: made the amount they had been asking the lore for.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: Say not, my soul, can God relieve my care? Remember
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: that omnipotence hath servants everywhere. On one occasion, when about
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: to leave home on a ten days trip to Montreal
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: and other places. Word came that the children's Sunday school
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: treat was to take place during my absence. Little Mary
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: had no best dress for the occasion. I had planned
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: to make her a white woolen dress, but now there
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: was no time, and I knew I could not make
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: it well away with so many meetings ahead. But the
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: very day, a lady from our church called and said
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: she wanted for a long time to help me, and
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: asked if she could do any sewing for me. With
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: damn eyes and a grateful heart, I accepted her offer.
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: On my return, Mary told me of her wearing a
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: pretty white cloth dress for the Sunday school treat. Once more,
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: we planned to leave Canada for China, and a serious
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: problem faced me. Our oldest son could be left to
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: face the world alone, but not our daughter of sixteen.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: It was necessary that a suitable guardian be found for her.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: I called on three different ones whom I thought would
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: feel some responsibility toward the missionary's daughter, but all three
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: declined to accept the responsibility. I then saw that it
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: was not for me to try to open doors, but
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: for this also I must look to the Lord. I
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: prayed that if he wished me to return to China,
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: he would send me one to whom I could commit her.
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: A short time passed. Then a lady called, whose life
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: had been devoted to the training of young women. Her
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: beautiful Christian character made her the one above all others
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  Speaker 1: in whose care I could gladly leave my daughter. This
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  Speaker 1: lady told me that in her early years she had
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  Speaker 1: hoped to give her life for service in China, but
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  Speaker 1: the way had been closed. She now felt that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord had laid it upon her heart to offer to
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  Speaker 1: take charge of my child. Years have passed since then,
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  Speaker 1: and she has fulfilled my highest expectations of her. Rarely
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  Speaker 1: has a more definite answer come from a loving father,
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  Speaker 1: nor one that brought greater relief and help. For this offer,
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  Speaker 1: coming as it did in answer to my prayers, seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be unmistakable proof that the Lord would keep my child.
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  Speaker 1: As I gave her up. The time had almost arrived
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  Speaker 1: for beginning the last preparations for the long journey to China,
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  Speaker 1: when one day Ruth came in from her play with
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  Speaker 1: her heavy coat almost in shreds, she having in some
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  Speaker 1: way torn it on a barbed wire fence. The coat
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  Speaker 1: was the only heavy one she had, and I had
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: planned to make it do for the ocean voyage, intending
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  Speaker 1: to get a new one in England. I tried to
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  Speaker 1: find a new one in the stores, but the season
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  Speaker 1: was passed and I could not and had no time
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  Speaker 1: to make another. I just took the need to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord and left it there, believing that in some way
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  Speaker 1: he would provide a few days later, a friend telephoned
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  Speaker 1: me that her mother had recently returned from a visit
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  Speaker 1: to Chicago and wished me to come over to see
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  Speaker 1: a parcel she had brought for me. Oh the relief
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  Speaker 1: that came when I found that the parcel contained, among
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  Speaker 1: other things, a handsome red cloth ulster, which fitted Ruth perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: This fresh evidence of the Lord's overshadowing care touched me deeply.
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  Speaker 1: Those who have never known such tokens of the Lord's
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  Speaker 1: loving care and the little things of life can scarcely
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  Speaker 1: understand the blessedness that such experiences bring. Whether it be
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: so heavy that others cannot bear to know, the heavy
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  Speaker 1: burden they cannot come and share, whether it be so
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: tiny that others cannot see why it should be a
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  Speaker 1: burden and seems so real to me. Either in both,
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: I lay them down at the Master's feet and find
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: them alone with Jesus mysteriously sweet. As I attempt to
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: recall the answers to prayer in this furlough, so many
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: come to mind. It is impossible to record them. All
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: help in keeping my appointments, courage and power for public speaking,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: physic strength and guidance in facing many difficult problems. It
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: was at this time I formed a habit of getting
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: a message for a meeting on my knees. It often
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: seemed to me very wonderful, how as in a flash,
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: sometimes an outline for a talk an China would come.
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  Speaker 1: Never having kept notes nor even outlines of addresses. I
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  Speaker 1: have frequently been placed in circumstances when I have felt
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: utterly cast on the Lord, and I can testify that
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  Speaker 1: he has never failed to give the needed help and
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: the realized divine power. Yet, sad, sad is it that
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: often at just such times, no sooner would the address
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: be ended, than the satan whispered thought would come. I
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  Speaker 1: have done well to day? Oh is not the goodness
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: and forbearance of our God wonderful? Wonderful that he ever
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  Speaker 1: again would deign to give help when he asked for
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: it a short time since. I asked, a dear friend
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  Speaker 1: whose writings have reached and inspired multitudes throughout the Christian world,
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  Speaker 1: how did you do it? Softly with deep reverence in
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: look and tone? She replied, it has been done all
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: and through prayer with deepest gratitude in praise to her
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: ever faithful God, I too can testify that any little
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: service I have been able to do has been done
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  Speaker 1: by His grace. In answer to prayer, I stood amazed
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: and whispered, Can it be that He hath granted all
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: the boon I sought? How wonderful that he for me
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: hath wrought O faithless heart? He said that he would
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: hear and proved his promise. Wherefore didst thou fear? How
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: wonderful if he should fail to bless expectant prayer with
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: good success? End of chapter seven, The Story of One
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  Speaker 1: Furlough Chapter eight of How I Know God Answers Prayer
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  Speaker 1: by Rosalind go Forth. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. How I Know God Answers Prayer? Chapter eight,
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  Speaker 1: Our God of the impossible, Behold, I am the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything too hard for me? Jeremiah thirty two
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: twenty seven. Ah, Lord God, there is nothing too wonderful
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: for thee Jeremiah thirty two seventeen margin. The following illustration
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  Speaker 1: of the truth, what is impossible with man is possible
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: with God occurred while we were attending the Keswick Convention
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: in England in nineteen ten. One evening, my husband returned
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: from an evening meeting which I had not attended, and
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: told me of a woman who had come to him
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: in great distress. She had been an earnest Christian worker,
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: but love for her light, trashy fiction had grown so
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: upon her as to work havoc in her Christian life.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: She had come to Keswick three years in succession, hoping
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: to get victory, but had failed. My whole soul went
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: out to the poor woman. I longed to help her,
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: but mister Goforth did not know her name, and the
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: tent had been so dark he could not recognize her again. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: there were about four thousand people attended the convention That night.
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: I lay awake asking the Lord if he knew I
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: could help her to bring us together, for I too
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: had at one time been almost wrecked on the same rock.
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: Three evenings later, the tent was so crowded that I
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: found difficulty in getting a seat. Just as the meeting
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: was about to begin, I noticed a woman changed her
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: seat twice and then rise a third time and come
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: to where I was, asking me to make room for her.
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: I crowded the others on the seat and made room
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  Speaker 1: for her. I fear not too graciously. While mister f. B.
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: Meyer was speaking, I know this, she was in great distress,
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: her tears falling fast. I laid my hand on hers,
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: and she grasped it convulsively. At the close of the meeting,
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: I said, can I help you? Oh? No, she replied,
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: there is no hope for me. It is those cursed
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: novels that have been my ruin. I looked at her
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: in amazement and almost gasped, Are you the one who
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: spoke to Miss go Forth Saturday night? Yes? But who
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: are you? Scarcely able to speak? For emotion? I told her,
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: and also of my prayer. For the next few moments,
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: we could only weep together. Then the Lord used me
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  Speaker 1: to lead the poor, crushed and broken soul back to himself.
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: As we parted. A few days later, her face was
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: beaming with joy in the Lord when addressing a gathering
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: of Christians in Glasgow, I was giving a certain incident,
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: the point of which depended upon a verse of a
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: certain hymn. When I came to quote the verse, it
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: had utterly slipped my memory. In some confusion, I turned
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: to the leader, hoping that he could help me out,
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: but he said he had no idea what the hymn was.
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: Turning again to the people, I had to acknowledge that
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: my memory had failed me, and, feeling embarrassed, I closed
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: my message somewhat hurriedly. Sitting down, I lifted my heart
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: in a cry to the Lord to lead me to
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: the verse I wanted, if it was in the hymn
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: book used there. I took up a hymn book and
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: opened it, and the very first lines that fell upon
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: my eye were those of the verses I wanted, though
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: it was the last verse of a long hymn. Rising again,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: I told the people of my prayer and the answer,
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: and gave them the verse. The solemn stillness which prevailed
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: indicated that deep impression had been made. Some two years after,
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: a newly arrived missionary in China told me how he
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: had been present at that meeting, and how this little
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: incident had been a great blessing to him. They cried
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: unto THEE and were delivered. They trusted in THEE and
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: were not confounded Psalm twenty two five. Before leaving Canada,
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  Speaker 1: we had ridden to the China Inland School at Chifu, China,
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: hoping to get our children admitted there. But shortly before
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: we left England for China, word reached us that both
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: the boys and girls schools were overflowing with long lists
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: of waiting applications. This was a great blow to me,
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: for I had been looking forward to engaging once more
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: in the aggressive outstation work. But the children could not
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: be left and were too old to be taken away
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: from their studies. Seemed necessary, therefore, that a good Christian
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: governess should be found who would teach the children and
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: take charge of the home in my absence all the
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: way across the Siberian route. This matter was before us.
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  Speaker 1: Earnestly did I pray that the Lord would direct the
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  Speaker 1: right one to us, for I knew that to get
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: a young woman who could fill the position we wanted
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: her for would be very difficult. In China, we had
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: planned to go direct to our station, but illness forced
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: us to break the journey at Pechaiho, where we met
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: a young lady, the daughter of a missionary. Many difficulties
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: appeared in the way of her coming on with us,
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: but one by one these were removed, and when we
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: continued our journey, this young woman was one of our party.
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: Time proved her to be truly God given. Not only
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: was she all and more than I could have hoped for,
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: but the Lord answered my prayers that her young life
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: might be consecrated to the Lord's service in China. She
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: later went through her training in England as a nurse,
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: and is now in China as a missionary of the
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: China Inland Mission. The summer holidays at pey Tai, who
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: were drawing to a close, heavy rains had fallen, making
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: the roads to the station, six miles distant almost impassable,
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: where it had come that our two children, Ruth and Wallace,
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: must leave by the Monday morning train in order to
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: reach the steamer at Teatsin, which was to take them
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: to Chifu, where they were attending the China Inland Mission schools.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: All day Saturday and Sunday, torrents of rain continued to
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: fall with a fierce wind from the north. I rose
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: before daybreak Monday morning to find the rain still pouring
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: down in Torrents. I roused the servant and sent him
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: off to make sure about the chair, cart and donkeys.
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: A little later he returned to say that the chair
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: had been blown over and the chair bearers had refused
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: to come. The carters also refused, saying the roads were impassable,
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: and even the donkey boys said they would not go.
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: I was truly at wits end corner. I went alone
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: and did not take time even to kneel down, but
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: just lifted up my heart to my father to stop
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: the rain and open away for our children to get
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: to the station. I felt a sudden strong confidence that
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: the Lord would help, and going out again, I ordered
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 1: the servant to run fast to the village near by
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: and get fresh donkeys. He was unwilling, saying it was useless,
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: no one would venture, but I said, go at once.
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: I know they will come. When he was gone, the
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: children had their breakfast, boxes were closed and taken out,
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 1: and the children put on their wraps. Then the rain stopped.
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: Just then the servant returned with several donkeys. Within five minutes,
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 1: the children and baggage were in donkeys and started for
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: the station. A few hours later, one of the donkey
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: boys returned with a hastily written note from Ruth saying
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: they had reached the station without any mishap and quite dry,
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: for it had not rained on the way over, but
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: had started to pour again just after they got on
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: the train. The rain continued for days after. At the
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 1: close of our four months of meetings in Great Britain
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: in nineteen ten, I felt a strong desire to send
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: a gift of five dollars to five different objects in Britain,
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: to show in a practical way our sympathy with the
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: workers in these various branches of the Lord's work. My
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: husband was in the midst of his accounts when I
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: asked him to give me five pounds for this purpose.
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: He told me it was impossible, as we had barely
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: enough for the journey to China. As I left him,
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 1: I wondered why I seemed to have these gifts so
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: definitely laid upon me to send away when there was
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: no money, Reasoning that if the thing were really of
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: the Lord, he could himself give me what he wished
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: me to send. I put the matter from my mind.
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: That evening's mail brought a letter from a stranger living
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: some distance away, judging from the postmark, for the letter
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: had no address and was not signed. The letter said,
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: I do not know you, nor have I met you,
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: but the Lord seems to have laid it on my
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: heart to send you this five pound note as a
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: farewell gift, to do what you think best with It.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: Was with a joyful heart I sent off the gifts
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: to the five Christian workers in Britain. Ye, the giver
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: said it was for work in China. As it was
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: usually the case, I could not have used it for
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: any other purpose. How to get the sewing done for
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: my family and yet meet the pressing calls made upon
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: me as the wife of a pioneer missionary for almost
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: thirty years has been perhaps the most difficult and constant
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: problem of my missionary life. In connection with the solving
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: of this problem, I have seen some of the most
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: precious evidences of God's willingness to undertake in the daily
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: details of life. The following story must be given in
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: detail to be really understood as one of the striking
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: instances of how God, in his own wonderful way, can
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: work out the seemingly impossible. Returning home to our station
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: from an unusually strenuous autumns touring, I planned, as usual
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: to give the month of December to the children's sewing,
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: so as to leave January largely free for a Bible
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: woman's training class. But my health broke down, and I
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: could make scarcely any headway with the thirty five or
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: four garments which had been made or fixed over before
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: the children returned to their school in Chifu. By the
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: eighteenth of December, we decided to cancel the class on
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: account of my ill health, and to all the women
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: except one whom I entirely forgot, I sent word not
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: to come. As the days passed, the burden of almost
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: untouched sewing became very great. At last I cried to
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: the Lord to undertake for me, and how wonderfully YE did.
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: On December twenty eighth, when I was conducting the Chinese
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: Woman's Prayer meeting, I noticed in the audience Missus Liu,
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: the very woman to whom I had forgotten to send word.
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: She had come a long distance with her little child
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: over rough mountainous roads. So I felt very sorry for
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: my thoughtlessness. Missus Lio accompanied me home, and I gave
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 1: her money for a barrow on which to return the
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: next day. I then sat down to the sewing machine.
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: The woman stood beside me for a little and then said,
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: you are looking very tired, missus Goforth. Let me run
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: the machine for you. You, I exclaimed, astonished, Why you
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: don't know how? Yes, I do, she replied. She was
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: so insistent that at last, in fear and trembling, I
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: ventured to let her try, for I had only one needle.
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: It took but a few moments to convince me she
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: was a real expert at the machine. When I urged
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: her to stay and help me, she replied that, since
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: the class was given up, she would return home on
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: the morrow. That night, I was puzzled, why should the
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: Lord lead this woman to me, the only one, so
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: far as we knew, who could do the machine work,
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: and then permit her to leave. I could only lay
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: the whole matter before the Lord and trust him to undertake.
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: And again he answered. That night a fierce storm came on,
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: lasting several days and making the roads quite impassable. Missus Loo,
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: finding herself storm tied, gladly gave all her time to me.
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: The roads remained impassable for a whole month, during which
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: time I did not once need to sit down at
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: the machine. Well in teens and with my children during
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: the revolution in nineteen twelve, I had occasion to go
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: into the Chinese city with my servant. We visited three stores.
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: On our way home by the tramway, I discovered I
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: had lost a five dollar bill and one of my gloves.
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: I had foolishly put the bill inside the glove. Ashamed
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: to let the Chinese servants know of my carelessness, I
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: sent him home when we reached the end of the
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: train line. As soon as he was out of sight,
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: I took the tram back to the city. On the way,
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: I confessed to the Lord my carelessness and asked him
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: to keep the glove and money and lead me to
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: where they were. I retraced my steps back to two
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: of the stores where we had been. As I entered
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: the second, which was a shoe store, a number of
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: men were in the shop, but there right in side
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: of all, on the floor lay my glove. I knew,
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: of course, with the five dollars inside. It was with
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: a heart full of gratitude to my loving father and
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: an enlarged vision of his love that I picked up
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: the glove and returned home that day. On one occasion,
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: on furlough with several little children and my husband in China,
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: I had no settled home. When the time came to
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: do the sewing for the long journey back to China,
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  Speaker 1: I had simply no way to get it done. I
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  Speaker 1: just had to look to the Lord, and as so
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  Speaker 1: often before, he was again faithful and opened the way.
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  Speaker 1: When shopping down town one day I met a minister's
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  Speaker 1: wife from a distant country charge who said, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to come with all your children and get your
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  Speaker 1: sewing done with me. A number of the ladies of
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  Speaker 1: her congregations so well, and we will be delighted to
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  Speaker 1: help you. I gratefully accepted her invitation, and while staying
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: with her, a sewing bee was held in the church.
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  Speaker 1: In one week, the sewing was finished, which would have
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  Speaker 1: taken me many weeks of hard, constant labor to accomplish alone.
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: The winter of her return from China. After the Boxer tragedies,
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  Speaker 1: I felt keenly the need of a good sewing machine,
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  Speaker 1: as I could not possibly do the children sewing by
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  Speaker 1: hand and still get time for meetings. One day, as
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  Speaker 1: my husband was leaving on a deputationeur, I asked him
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  Speaker 1: for money for a machine. He assured me it was impossible,
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  Speaker 1: that we had only sufficient for bare necessities. I knew
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  Speaker 1: well he would gladly give me the money for the
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  Speaker 1: machine if he hadn't, so I laid my need before
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  Speaker 1: the father, confident that he knew it was a real need,
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  Speaker 1: and that, according to his promise, he could and would
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  Speaker 1: supply it. I was so sure that somehow the money
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  Speaker 1: would come that I went down town especially to choose
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  Speaker 1: a suitable machine. I found it would cost thirty six dollars.
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  Speaker 1: A few days later I received a letter from a
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: band of ladies in Mount Forest, Ontario, inclosing twenty three
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  Speaker 1: dollars and some odd sense, saying, please accept the enclosed
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  Speaker 1: to buy something you have lost as our substitute in China.
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: Only a day or two later, another letter came from
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  Speaker 1: quite another part of Ontario, in closing twelve dollars and
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  Speaker 1: some cents. The two amounts came to exactly the sum
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  Speaker 1: I needed to purchase the machine. The second letter stated
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  Speaker 1: that the money was sent to help me buy a machine.
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  Speaker 1: It has always been a puzzle to me how they
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: came to send the money in that way, for I
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  Speaker 1: had not spoken to anyone but my husband about wanting
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: a machine. When mister Goforth returned, I was able to
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  Speaker 1: show him what the Lord could give me, though he
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  Speaker 1: could not. I had been holding a class for women
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  Speaker 1: at an out station, staying in the home of the
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: elder doctor Fan. The day before I was to return home,
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 1: missus Fann asked me to go with her to visit
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  Speaker 1: a very sick boy whom the missionary doctor had sent
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: home from the boys' school Wi Wi because of his
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: having tuberculosis of the lungs. Missus Fann told me the
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  Speaker 1: mother was in great distress and begged me to come
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: and pray with her. I found the lad in a
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: truly pitiable condition. His mouth was swollen, his face a
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: ghastly hue, and every moment a cough racked his frame.
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: He seemed to me quite beyond hope, and looked as
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  Speaker 1: if he could not live long. On our way home
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  Speaker 1: to missus Fans, the message of James five, fourteen and
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: fifteen kept coming persistently to me, as if spoken by
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  Speaker 1: a voice. Is any sick among you, let him call
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  Speaker 1: for the elders of the church, and let them pray
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  Speaker 1: over him, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord shall raise him up. I simply could
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  Speaker 1: not get away from those words. On reaching doctor Fan's home,
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  Speaker 1: I sent for him and asked if he and the
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  Speaker 1: other elders would be willing to pray with me over
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  Speaker 1: the lad. He consented, though at first he seemed rather dubious.
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  Speaker 1: There were quite a number of Christians gathered around as
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  Speaker 1: we placed the boy in our midst all knelt down
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  Speaker 1: and I read the words from James. I told them
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  Speaker 1: plainly that I could not say that it was indeed
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: the Lord's will to heal the boy. All that was
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: clear to me was that we must obey as far
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  Speaker 1: as we had light, and leave the rest in God's
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: hands for life or death. Several prayed, and we then dispersed.
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  Speaker 1: Early the following morning, I left for home. Circumstances prevented
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: my return to that place, and in time we moved
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: to another field. More than two years later, while visiting
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: Hui Hui, I met Missus Fan, who told me that
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: the lad had completely recovered and was then working with
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: his father. Still a year later, I met doctor Fan,
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  Speaker 1: and upon inquiring about the lad the doctor told me
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  Speaker 1: he was perfectly well and was in business in wi
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 1: Hui City. The power of intercession is shown in the
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: following two incidents. In the winter of nineteen o five,
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: a call came for my husband to hold special meetings
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: in Manchuria on following Leo Yang. For these meetings, one
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: of the missionaries showed him a letter from mister Moffatt
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: of Korea which said, I have a thousand Christians here
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: who have promised to pray for mister Goforth, and I
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: know their prayers will prevail with God. Can we doubt
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: that their prayers had something to do with the marvelous
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: revival movement which followed? When in England in nineteen o nine,
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: my husband was the guest of a lady in London
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: who was noted for her power of intercession. He was
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: telling her of the great revival movements he had been through,
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 1: which took place in different provinces of China, and she
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: asked him to look at her diary, in which were
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: notes of times when she had been let out in
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: special intercession for mister Goforth. These dates exactly corresponded to
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: the times of the greatest revival power. A few months
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: after we returned to China from a furlough, I invited
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  Speaker 1: a certain missionary and his wife and children to pay
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: us a visit. Peculiarly touching circumstances had led me to
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: give this invitation. Both husband and wife were in ill
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: health and greatly needed a change. There resided in a
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: fair inland station, quite cut off from other missionaries. They
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: were not connected with any society and were looking only
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: to the Lord for their support. Just as these friends
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: had started toward us on their five days journey, small
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: pots broke out in our station, and one of the
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: missionaries died. A telegram was sent hoping to catch them
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: before they left, but it did not reach them until
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: they were a short distance from our station. Then the
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  Speaker 1: whole family had to turn around and once more take
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: the long, trying journey homeward. As the weather was very
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: cold at the time. One could imagine what a terrible
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: trial to faith the whole experience meant to them. I
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: felt so deeply for them that I planned to send
• 2:28:17
  Speaker 1: sufficient to cover at least the expense of the journey,
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: But on getting out of quarantine, I found I could
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 1: not draw on our treasurer for the fifty dollars needed,
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: as mister Goforth was not at home. However, the Lord
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: had seen the need long before I felt it and
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: had the exact amount ready. Three days after I got
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: out of quarantine, I received a letter from mister Horace
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: Govin of the Faith Mission, Glasgow In closing a draft
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: for five pounds, which at the rate of exchange at
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 1: that time, came to fifty dollars Mexican. The gift came
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: from the workers of the mission, and he stated that
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: they wished me to accept it as a personal gift.
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: Needless to say, the draft was sent off that same
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 1: day to the needy friends in life far off station.
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: On one occasion, when we were temporarily stationed at w
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 1: Hui Honan, I was called to nurse a fellow missionary
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 1: who had contracted black small box. This missionary died and
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 1: it was well shut away from everyone during the time
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: of quarantine that I had the following experience. I awoke
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 1: suddenly one night feeling greatly troubled for one in Canada.
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 1: So strong was the impression that this friend needed my
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 1: prayers that I felt compelled to rise and spend a
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 1: long time wrestling with God on this one's behalf. Then
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 1: peace came and I again slept. As soon as I
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: was out of quarantine, I wrote to my friend and
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: told of this experience, giving the date in time. The
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: answer came which said that though no date could be
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: given as no note had been made of it, as
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: far as could be judged, it was about the same
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: time that I had had the burden of prayer that
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 1: my friend was passing through a time of such temptation
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 1: as seemed almost overwhelming. But the letter said, I was
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: brought through victoriaously. I know that it was your prayers
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: that helped me. The following incident may seem trifling to some,
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: but to me, no answer in my life ever brought
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: more intense relief. For this reason, I have reserved it
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: as the final testimony of the original prayer record. My
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: husband had gone to whole revival meetings in a distant province,
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: and while he was away, I went with my Bible
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: woman to a sergeant outstation at the urgent request of
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 1: the Christians, to preach at a four days theatrical, which
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: brought great crowds. The four days there were enough to
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 1: wear out the strongest for many hours daily we had
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 1: to fence unruly crowds coming and going, And at the
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: end of our stay, I turned my face homeward, utterly
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: worn out. My one thought was to get to wi Hui,
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 1: our next station, for a few days rest with my
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: youngest children, who were attending school there. A sight of
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: them I knew would recover my energies better than anything else.
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: But in getting home, I in some way lost the
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  Speaker 1: key of the money drawer. It was Friday, and the
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 1: train for we Hui left on Saturday at ten o'clock.
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: Different persons came for money, but I had to put
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  Speaker 1: them off with some excuse. There was too much money
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: in the drawer for me to leave with the key
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 1: lying around somewhere. Besides, I myself could not go without money.
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: As soon as I had my supper, I started searching everywhere. Drawers, pigeonholes,
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: shelves were all searched in vain. After hunting for two hours,
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: until I was too exhausted to hunt any more, I
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 1: suddenly thought I have never prayed about it. Stopping still
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: just where I stood by the dining table, I lifted
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: my heart to the Lord. Oh Lord, you know how
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: much I need a rest. You know how much I
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: longed to see the children pity me and lead me
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: to the key. Then, without wasting a step, I walked
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 1: through the dining room, hall and woman's guest room, into
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: mister Goforth's study, to the bookcase which covers one side
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: of the room. Opened the door, slept two books aside,
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 1: and there was the key. So near did the Lord
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: seem at that moment that I could almost feel his
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: bodily presence. It was not that I remembered putting the
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: key there, but he led me there. Yes, I know
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: God answers prayer. End of chapter eight, Our God of
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: the Impossible. Chapter nine of How I Know God answers
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  Speaker 1: Prayer by Rosalind Goforth. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. How I Know God answers Prayer, Chapter nine,
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  Speaker 1: To his praise, they shall abundantly utter the memory of
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: Thy great goodness. This chapter is written more than seven
• 2:32:46
  Speaker 1: years later than the foregoing in further testimony and praise.
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: Returning to Canada at the time of the Great War,
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: we came face to face with a serious financial crisis.
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: Only two ways seemed open to us. One was to
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: lay our affairs frankly before the board, showing that our
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: salary was quite insufficient with war conditions and prices to
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: meet our requirements. The other course was to just go forward,
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 1: get a suitable home and whatever we required, and trust
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 1: our father to supply what was needed above our income.
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  Speaker 1: We decided on the latter course. Our dear daughter felt
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 1: indignant that we should have a salary insufficient for our needs,
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: but we assured her that to trust God for what
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: was lacking was not begging. The day came when this
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: child and myself took possession of our new home. As
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: we entered the dining room, we found a large mail
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: from China on the table. One letter was forwarded from
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: the lady in Australia whose gifts in the past seemed
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 1: always to have met some felt need. Her letter enclosed
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 1: fifty pounds, with the expressed wish that thirty pounds should
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: be used for work in China, but twenty pounds was
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: to be used to meet some personal need. I handed
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: the letter to my daughter, saying, shall we not believe
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: that God will undertake for us? It seems to me
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: as if our father were beside us, saying, my child,
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: take this hundred dollars as an earnest of what I
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: am going to do for you. Tears stood in her
• 2:34:14
  Speaker 1: eyes as my daughter gave the letter back, saying, Mother,
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: we don't trust God half enough. Were I to attempt
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 1: to write the history of the months that followed, a
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: long chapter would be required. But my testimony along this
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 1: line is surely sufficient. It was on this same furlough
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: that I came to have an enlarged vision of my
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: heavenly Father's willingness to undertake in what some might term
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: the minor details of every day life. Missionaries, especially we
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: missionary women, know only too well how we are criticized
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: in the matter of dress when in the homeland and
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: when traveling. I have had, through the years not only
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 1: many amusing but trying experiences in this connection. And I
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 1: resolved to make the question of dress a definite matter
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 1: of prayer. And I rejoiced to testify that the result
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 1: of this decision became a constant source of wonder and praise. Yes,
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 1: I found the Lord could guide me even in trimming
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: my hat to his glory, that is, so that I
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: could stand up before an audience and not bring discredit
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 1: to my Master. Praise his name. There is nothing too
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 1: great for his power and nothing too small for his love.
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: At the time of the Great War, a son had
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 1: gone to England with the first Canadian contingent. When this
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: news reached us in China, I began to pray definitely
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: that the Lord would use my son's gifts in the
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 1: best way for his country's good, but would keep him
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: back from the trenches and from actual warfare. My boy
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 1: did not know of this prayer. Some weeks after reaching England,
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: he was looking forward to leaving for the trenches in
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: France when orders came that he was needed in the
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 1: orderly room, and his unit left without him. Months later,
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: a call came for volunteers to fill the great gaps
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: made at the time of the first use of gas.
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 1: My boy resigned his position and joined the company of
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: volunteers to be sent to France. Just before they were
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 1: to leave, he was again sent for from headquarters and
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: told he was to go to the Canadian base in
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: France as adjutant. His duties in this capacity kept him
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 1: at the forwarding base. A year later, he again planned
• 2:36:24
  Speaker 1: to resign in order to get to the trenches. He
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: had begun making arrangements for this step when he had
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: a fall from his horse, which caused him to be
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: invalided home to Canada, where he was kept till the
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: close of the war. It would indeed be difficult to
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: persuade his mother that all this happened by chance. For
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: one day, when in great distress, expecting any day a
• 2:36:47
  Speaker 1: cable to say he had left for the trenches, I
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 1: received a most clear assurance from the Lord that he
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 1: had the boy in his keeping. After a return to China,
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 1: when in great trouble, I prayed the Lord to grant
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: me a clear sign of his favor by giving me
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: a certain petition which effected a child in the homeland.
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: The request was a complicated one, including several definite details.
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 1: A little more than a month later, a letter reached
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  Speaker 1: me from the one for whom I had asked the
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: Lord's favor. She wrote joyously, telling that she had received
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 1: just what I had asked for, and in every detail
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: as I had prayed. When my husband resigned the regular
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: fields work of Shang Tee Honan, it became necessary for
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  Speaker 1: us to find a home elsewhere. The only suitable place
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 1: meeting all our requirements was the hills of Kicking Shant,
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: South honan on going there to get a site for
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: our home. Though we looked for more than a week,
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: we could find no place. As we started down the
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: hill one morning soon after midnight, I was feeling our
• 2:37:50
  Speaker 1: failure very keenly, for we had given up our old home.
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: When my husband saw how bad I felt, as he
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: told me later, he began to cry earnestly to the
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: Lord to give us site. And before we reached the
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: station the assurance had come that we would get a place.
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 1: A friend on the train traveling third class saw us
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: getting on the second class and came in for a
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: few words before getting off the train. When he heard
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: we had failed to get a site, he said, I
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: know of a beautiful sight which our mission is reserving
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: for a future missionary. I'll ask him to give it
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: to you. A few days later, the treasurer of this
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: mission wrote to us that they had unanimously and gladly
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 1: voted to give us the site. I am now writing
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 1: these closing words in our God given home built on
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: this beautiful site, one of the most lovely spots to
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: be found in China. So from this quiet mountain retreat
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  Speaker 1: a monument of what God can give In answer to prayer.
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: This little book of prayer testimonies is sent forth. As
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: the past has been reviewed and God's wonderful faithfulness recalled,
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: there has come a great sense of regret that I
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 1: have not trusted God more and asked more of Him,
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: both for my family and the che Yes, it is
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: truly wonderful. But the wonder is not that God can
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  Speaker 1: answer prayer, but that He does when we so imperfectly
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  Speaker 1: meet the conditions clearly laid down in His word. In
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  Speaker 1: recent years I have often tested myself by these conditions
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  Speaker 1: when weeks, perhaps months have passed without some answer to prayer,
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  Speaker 1: and there has come a conscious spiritual sagging. As the
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  Speaker 1: discerning soul can plainly see. All the conditions mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: the list below may be included in the one word
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  Speaker 1: abide conditions of prevailing prayer. One contrite, humility before God
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  Speaker 1: and forsaking of sin second Chronicles seven, fourteen two. Seeking
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  Speaker 1: God with the whole heart Jeremiah twenty nine, twelve and
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  Speaker 1: thirteen three, Faith in God, Mark eleven, twenty three and
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  Speaker 1: twenty four five. Obedience First John three twenty two six,
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  Speaker 1: Dependence on the Holy Spirit Romans eight twenty six seven, Importunity,
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  Speaker 1: Mark seven twenty four to thirty. Luke eleven five to ten. Eight.
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  Speaker 1: Must ask in accordance with God's will first John five
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  Speaker 1: fourteen nine, in Christ's name John fourteen, thirteen and fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: and many other passages. Ten. Must be willing to make
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  Speaker 1: amends for wrongs to others Matthew five, twenty three and
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. Causes of failure in prayer one sin in
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  Speaker 1: the heart in life Psalm sixty six eighteen, Isaiah fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine one two two, Persistent refusal to obey God Proverbs
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  Speaker 1: one twenty four to twenty eight Zechariah seven eleven and
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  Speaker 1: thirteen three, formalism and hypocrisy Isaiah one two to fifteen four,
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  Speaker 1: unwillingness to forgive others Mark eleven, twenty five and twenty
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  Speaker 1: six five, wrong motives James four two and three six,
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  Speaker 1: despising God's law Amos two four seven. Lack of love
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  Speaker 1: and mercy Proverbs twenty one thirteen, end of chapter nine
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  Speaker 1: to his praise. Chapter ten of How I Know God
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  Speaker 1: Answers Prayer by Rosalind Goforth. This librifox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. How I Know God Answers Prayer? Chapter ten,
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  Speaker 1: Victory found at the close of this little volume. It
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  Speaker 1: seems fitting to recount again a wonderful personnel experience narrated
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  Speaker 1: in the Sunday School Times of December seventh, nineteen eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: I do not remember the time when I did not
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  Speaker 1: have in some degree a love for the Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ as my Savior. When not quite twelve years of age,
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  Speaker 1: at a revival meeting, I publicly accepted and confessed Christ
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  Speaker 1: as my Lord and Master. From that time there grew
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  Speaker 1: up in my heart a deep yearning to know Christ
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  Speaker 1: in a more real way, for he seemed so unreal,
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  Speaker 1: so far away in visionary. One night, when still quite young,
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  Speaker 1: I remember going out under the trees in my parents
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  Speaker 1: garden and looking up into the starlit heavens. I longed
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  Speaker 1: with intense longing to feel Christ near me. As I
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: knelt down there on the grass alone with God, Job's
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  Speaker 1: cry became mine. Oh that I knew where I might
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  Speaker 1: find him? Could I have borne it? Had I known
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  Speaker 1: that almost forty years would pass before that yearning would
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  Speaker 1: be satisfied. With the longing to know Christ literally, to
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  Speaker 1: find him came a passionate desire to serve him. But oh,
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: what a terrible nature. I had, passionate, proud, self willed, indeed,
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: just full was I of the life those things that
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: I knew were unlike Christ. The following years of half
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  Speaker 1: hearted conflict with sinful self must be passed over. Till
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  Speaker 1: about the fifth year of our missionary work in China,
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  Speaker 1: I grieved to say that the new life in a
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  Speaker 1: foreign land, with its trying climate, provoking servants, and altogether
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: irritating conditions, seemed to have developed, rather than subdued, my
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  Speaker 1: natural disposition. One day, I can never forget it. As
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  Speaker 1: I sat inside the house by a paper window at dusk,
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  Speaker 1: two Chinese Christian women sat down on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: They began talking about me, and wrongly, no doubt, I listened.
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  Speaker 1: One said, yes, she is a hard worker, a zealous preacher,
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  Speaker 1: and yes she nearly loves us. But oh what a
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  Speaker 1: temper she has. If she would only live more as
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  Speaker 1: she preaches. Then followed a full and true delineation of
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  Speaker 1: my life and character. So true, indeed was it as
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  Speaker 1: to crush out all sense of annoyance, leave me humbled
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  Speaker 1: to the dust. I saw then, how useless, how worse
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  Speaker 1: than useless, was it for me to come to China
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  Speaker 1: to preach Christ and not live Christ. But how could
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  Speaker 1: I live Christ? I knew some one, including my dear husband,
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  Speaker 1: who had a peace and a power, yes, and a
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: something I could not define that I had not, and
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: often I longed to know the secret. Was it possible,
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  Speaker 1: with such a nature as mine ever to become patient
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  Speaker 1: and gentle? Was it possible that I could ever really
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 1: stop worrying? Could I, in a word, ever hoped to
• 2:44:35
  Speaker 1: be able to live Christ as well as preach him.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I loved Christ, and again and again I
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 1: had proved my willingness to give up all for his sake.
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  Speaker 1: But I knew too that one hot flash of temper
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  Speaker 1: with the Chinese, or with the children before the Chinese,
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 1: would largely undo weeks, perhaps months, of self sacrificing service.
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  Speaker 1: The years that followed led often through the furnace. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord knew that nothing but fire could destroy the draw
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  Speaker 1: sense of do my stubborn will. Those years may be
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: summed up in one line, fighting, not finding, following, keeping, struggling, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and failing, sometimes in the depths of despair over these failures,
• 2:45:17
  Speaker 1: then going on determined to do my best. And what
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  Speaker 1: a poor best it was. In the year nineteen o five,
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  Speaker 1: and later, as I witnessed the wonderful way the Lord
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  Speaker 1: was leading my husband and saw the Holy Spirit's power
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 1: in his life and message, I came to seek very
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 1: definitely for the fullness of the Holy Spirit. It was
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: a time of deep heart searching. The highnessness of sin
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 1: was revealed as never before. Many many things had to
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 1: be set right toward man and God. I learned then
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: what paying the price meant. Those were times of wonderful
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 1: mountain top experiences, and I came to honor the Holy
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: Spirit and seek his power for overcoming of sin in
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 1: a new way. For Christ's still remained, as before distant
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: afar off, and I longed increasingly to know to find him.
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 1: Although I had much power over besetting sins, yet there
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 1: were times of great darkness and defeat. It was during
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: one of these latter times that we were forced to
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  Speaker 1: return to Canada in June nineteen sixteen. My husband's health
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 1: prevented him from public speaking, and it seemed that this
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 1: duty for both of us was to fall on me.
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: But I dreaded facing the Home Church without some spiritual
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: uplift a fresh vision for myself. The Lord saw this
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: heart hunger, and in his own glorious way, he fulfilled
• 2:46:37
  Speaker 1: literally the promise he satisfieth the longing soul and fillth
• 2:46:42
  Speaker 1: the hungry soul with goodness. Some one O seven nine,
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 1: a vy a spiritual conference was to be held the
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  Speaker 1: latter part of June at Niagara on the Lake Ontario,
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: and to this I was led. One day I went
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: to the meeting, rather against my inclination, for it was
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: so lovely under the trees by the beautiful lake. The
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 1: speaker was a stranger to me, but from almost the
• 2:47:04
  Speaker 1: first his message gripped me victory over sin. Why this
• 2:47:08
  Speaker 1: was what I had fought for, had hungered for all
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 1: my life? Was it possible? The speaker went on to
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: describe very simply an ordinary Christian life experience. Sometimes on
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 1: the mountain, talk with visions of God. Then again would
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: come the sagging and dimming a vision, coldness, discouragement, and
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 1: perhaps definite disobedience, and a time of downgrat experience. Then
• 2:47:32
  Speaker 1: perhaps a sorrow or even some special mercy would bring
• 2:47:35
  Speaker 1: the wanderer back to his Lord. The speaker asked for
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 1: all those who felt this to be a picture of
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: their experience to raise the hand I was sitting in
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: the front seat, and shame only kept me from raising
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 1: my hand at once. But I did so want to
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 1: get all God had for me, and I determined to
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: be true, and after a struggle, I raised my hand.
• 2:47:55
  Speaker 1: Wondering if others were like myself, I ventured to glance
• 2:47:58
  Speaker 1: back and saw many hands raised, though the audience was
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 1: composed almost entirely of Christian workers, ministers, and missionaries. The
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  Speaker 1: leader went on to say that life which he had
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 1: described was not the life God planned or wished for
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 1: his children. He described the higher life of peace, rest
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: in the Lord of power, and freedom from struggles, worry.
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 1: Care As I listened, I could scarcely believe it could
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: be true. Yet my whole soul was moved so that
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 1: it was the greatest difficulty I could control my emotion.
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: I saw, then, though dimly, that I was nearing the
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 1: goal for which I had been aiming all my life.
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, soon after daybreak, I went over
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: on my knees carefully and prayerfully all the passages on
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: the victorious life that were given in a little yellow
• 2:48:45
  Speaker 1: leaflet that the speaker had distributed. What a comfort and
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: strength it was to see how clear. God's word was
• 2:48:51
  Speaker 1: that victory, not defeat, was his will for his children.
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: And to see that wonderful provision he had made later,
• 2:49:00
  Speaker 1: during the days that followed, clearer light came. I did
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 1: what I was asked to do. I quietly but definitely
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 1: accepted Christ as my savior from the power of sin,
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 1: as I had so long before accepted Him as my
• 2:49:12
  Speaker 1: savior from the penalty of sin. And on this I rested.
• 2:49:17
  Speaker 1: I left Niagara, realizing, however, there was still something I
• 2:49:21
  Speaker 1: had not got. I felt much as the blind man
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 1: must have felt when he said I see men as
• 2:49:26
  Speaker 1: trees walking. I had begun to see light, but dimly.
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 1: The day after reaching home, I picked up a little booklet,
• 2:49:34
  Speaker 1: The Life That Wins, which I had not read before, and,
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 1: going to my son's bedside, I told him it was
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: the personal testimony of one whom God had used to
• 2:49:42
  Speaker 1: bring great blessing into my life. I then read it
• 2:49:45
  Speaker 1: aloud till I came to the words At last, I
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 1: realized that Jesus Christ was actually and literally within me.
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 1: I stopped, amazed, and the sun seemed suddenly to come
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 1: from under a cloud and flood my whole soul with light.
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: How blind i'd been, I saw at last the secret
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 1: of victory. It was simply Jesus Christ himself, his own
• 2:50:06
  Speaker 1: life lived out in the believer. But the thought of
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: victory was for the moment lost sight of in the
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: inexpressible joy of realizing Christ's in dwelling presence, Like a tired,
• 2:50:17
  Speaker 1: worn out wanderer finding home. At last, I just rested
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 1: in Him, rested in his love, in himself. And oh
• 2:50:25
  Speaker 1: the peace and joy that came flooding my life. A
• 2:50:28
  Speaker 1: restfulness and quietness of spirit I never thought could be
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 1: mine took possession of me so naturally literally, a new
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: life began for me, or rather in me. It was
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: just the life that is Christ. The first step I
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: took in this new life was to get standing on
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: God's own word and not merely on man's teaching. For
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: even on a personal experience, and as I studied, especially
• 2:50:52
  Speaker 1: the truth of Christ's in dwelling victory over sin and
• 2:50:55
  Speaker 1: God's bountiful provision, the Word was fairly illumined with new light.
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: The years that have passed have been years of blessed
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 1: fellowship with Christ and of joy in his service. A
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: friend asked me, not long ago, if I could give
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: in a sentence the after result in my life of
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: what I said had come to me in nineteen sixteen,
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: and I replied, yes, it can all be summed up
• 2:51:16
  Speaker 1: in one word, resting. Some have asked, but have you
• 2:51:21
  Speaker 1: never sinned? Yes? I grieve to say I have sin
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: is the one thing I abhor, for it is the
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: one thing that can, if unrepented of, clog the channel
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 1: of fellowship with Christ and to power for service. But
• 2:51:34
  Speaker 1: I have learned that there is an instantaneous forgiveness and
• 2:51:37
  Speaker 1: restoration to be had, always that there need be no
• 2:51:41
  Speaker 1: times of despair. One of the blessed results of this
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 1: life is not only the consciousness of Christ's presence, but
• 2:51:48
  Speaker 1: the reality of His presence as manifested in definite results.
• 2:51:52
  Speaker 1: When in the daily details of life, matters are left
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: with Him and He has undertaken my own thought of
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: him is beauty expressed in Spurgeon's words. What the hand
• 2:52:04
  Speaker 1: is to the lute, what the breath is to the flute?
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 1: What the mother to the child? What the guide in
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 1: pathless wild? What is oil to troubled wave? What is
• 2:52:14
  Speaker 1: ransom to a slave? What is flower to the bee?
• 2:52:17
  Speaker 1: That is Jesus Christ to me. The special Bible study
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: which I made at that time was embodied in a
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: leaflet proving helpful to others. It is added below God's presence.
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: The secret of victory is simply Christ himself in the
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: heart of the believer. This truth of Christ's in dwelling
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 1: is and always has been a mystery. Romans sixteen twenty five,
• 2:52:42
  Speaker 1: Ephesians three nine, with Colossians one twenty six and twenty
• 2:52:45
  Speaker 1: seven Ephesians five thirty thirty two Colossians four three. Christ
• 2:52:51
  Speaker 1: himself taught this truth. John fourteen twenty and twenty three,
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: fifteen one O seven seventeen twenty one to twenty three,
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 1: Matthew twenty eight twenty, Revelation three twenty. See also Mark
• 2:53:04
  Speaker 1: sixteen twenty. It was a vital reality to the apostle
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: Paul Romans eight ten, First Corinthians six fifteen, First Corinthians
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  Speaker 1: twelve twenty seven, Second Corinthians five seventeen, Second Corinthians thirteen five,
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: Galatians two twenty, Galatians three, twenty seven, Galatians four nineteen,
• 2:53:25
  Speaker 1: Ephesians three seventeen, Philippians one twenty one, First Thessalonians five ten,
• 2:53:30
  Speaker 1: Hebrews three six, the words in Christ which recur in
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: many other passages will have a new literalness when read
• 2:53:39
  Speaker 1: in the light of the above. The apostle John had
• 2:53:42
  Speaker 1: a light conception of Christ's in dwelling presence. First John
• 2:53:46
  Speaker 1: two twenty eight to three, six and twenty four, One
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: John four, four, twelve, thirteen, and sixteen, First John five twenty.
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  Speaker 1: God's purpose as victory is the result of Christ's sae
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 1: life lived out in the believer. It is important that
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: we see clearly that victory and not defeat, is God's
• 2:54:06
  Speaker 1: purpose for his children. The scriptures are very decided upon
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 1: this truth. Luke one, seventy four and seventy five, Romans five,
• 2:54:15
  Speaker 1: two Romans Chapters six and eight. First Corinthians fifteen fifty seven,
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: Second Corinthians two fourteen, Second Corinthians ten five, Ephesians one,
• 2:54:26
  Speaker 1: three and four, Colossians four twelve, First Thessalonians five twenty three,
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 1: Second Thessalonians three three, Second Timothy two nineteen, Titus two twelve,
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 1: Hebrews seven twenty five, First Peter one fifteen, Second Peter
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 1: three fourteen, First John twoy one, First John three, six
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 1: and nine, and many other passages that Christ came as
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 1: a savior from the power, as well as the penalty
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: of sin. We see in Matthew one twenty one, with
• 2:54:56
  Speaker 1: John eight, thirty four and thirty six, and Titus two fourteen.
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 1: God's provision. God knew the frailty of man, that his
• 2:55:06
  Speaker 1: heart was desperately wicked, that even his righteousness was as
• 2:55:10
  Speaker 1: filthy rags, that men's only hope for victory over sin
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 1: must come from the godward side. He therefore made kingly provision,
• 2:55:18
  Speaker 1: so rich, so sufficient, so exceeding abundant, that as we
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 1: study it, we feel we have tapped a mine of
• 2:55:24
  Speaker 1: wealth too deep to fathom just a few suggestions of
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: its riches. God's greatest provision is the gift of a
• 2:55:32
  Speaker 1: part of his own being in the person of the
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. The following are but some of the many
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 1: things the Holy Spirit does for us, as recorded in
• 2:55:40
  Speaker 1: the Word. The seventh chapter of Romans should be read
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 1: in the light of the sixth and eighth chapters. He
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 1: begets us into the family of God. John three six
• 2:55:51
  Speaker 1: he seals or marks us as God's Ephesians one thirteen.
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 1: He dwells in us first. Corinthians three sixteen dightes us
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 1: to Christ first Corinthians twelve, thirteen and twenty seven. He
• 2:56:04
  Speaker 1: changes us into the likeness of Christ. Second Corinthians three eighteen.
• 2:56:09
  Speaker 1: He helps in prayer, Romans eight twenty six. He comforts
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: John fourteen sixteen, He guides Romans eight fourteen. He strengthens
• 2:56:19
  Speaker 1: with power Ephesians three sixteen. He is the source of
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 1: power and fruitfulness John seven thirty eight thirty nine. Some
• 2:56:27
  Speaker 1: of the victorious results in our life as Christ has
• 2:56:30
  Speaker 1: his wigh in us are shown in Romans eight thirty
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 1: two thirty seven, Romans fifteen thirteen, Second Corinthians nine eight
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 1: and eleven, Second Corinthians two fourteen, Ephesians one nineteen, Aphesians
• 2:56:43
  Speaker 1: three sixteen and twenty Philippians four, seven, thirteen and nineteen,
• 2:56:48
  Speaker 1: Colossians one eleven, one Peter one five two, Timothy three seventeen,
• 2:56:54
  Speaker 1: Jude twenty four, John fifteen seven. To the seeker for
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 1: further scripture health, the way writer would suggest a plan
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: that has proved a great blessing to herself read the Psalms.
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: Through making careful record of all the statements of what
• 2:57:07
  Speaker 1: the Lord was to the writers of the Psalms, the
• 2:57:10
  Speaker 1: list will surprise you. Then, on your knees, go over
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 1: them one by one with the prayer that Christ may
• 2:57:16
  Speaker 1: be to you what He was to David and the others.
• 2:57:20
  Speaker 1: Take a crudence or better still, a young's concordance, and
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 1: look up the texts under such headings as love, fullness, power, riches, grace,
• 2:57:28
  Speaker 1: et cetera, grouping them into usable Bible studies. As a sample,
• 2:57:32
  Speaker 1: taking this last word grace, the more one studies it,
• 2:57:36
  Speaker 1: the more wonderful does it become. Here are some of
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 1: these headings Grace for grace John one sixteen, Sufficient Grace,
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: Second Corinthians twelve nine, more Grace James four six All Grace,
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 1: Second Corinthians nine eight, Abundant Grace, Romans five seventeen, exceeding
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 1: abundant Grace, Verse Timothy one fourteen, exceeding riches of His
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 1: grace Ephesians two seventeen. But let us remember that to
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: simply know of riches will never materially benefit us. We
• 2:58:08
  Speaker 1: must make them our own. All fullness dwells in Christ.
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 1: It is only as we apprehend, which means take hold
• 2:58:16
  Speaker 1: or take in Christ through the Holy Spirit. Cannot be
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  Speaker 1: possible for these spiritual riches to become ours. The slogan
• 2:58:23
  Speaker 1: of this glorious life in Christ is just. Let go
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  Speaker 1: and let God. End of Chapter ten. Victory found end
• 2:58:36
  Speaker 1: of How I Know God Answers Prayer by Rosalind go
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  Speaker 1: Forth