t I accepted her offer. On my return, Mary told me of her
wearing a pretty white cloth dress for the Sunday-school treat.

* * * * *

Once more we planned to leave Canada for China, and a serious problem
faced me. Our eldest son could be left to face the world alone, but not
our daughter of sixteen. It was necessary that a suitable guardian be
found for her. I called on three different ones whom I thought would
feel some responsibility toward the missionary's daughter, but all three
declined to accept the responsibility. I then saw that it was not for me
to try to open doors, but for this also I must look to the Lord. I
prayed that, if he wished me to return to China, he would send me one to
whom I could commit her.

A short time passed; then a lady called, whose life had been devoted to
the training of young women. Her beautiful Christian character made her
the one above all others in whose care I could gladly leave my daughter.
This lady told me that in her early years she had hoped to give her life
for service in China, but the way had been closed. She now felt that the
Lord had laid it upon her heart to offer to take charge of my child.
Years have passed since then, and she has fulfilled my highest
expectations of her. Rarely has a more definite answer come from a
loving Father, nor one that brought greater relief and help; for this
offer, coming as it did in answer to my prayers, seemed to be
unmistakable proof that the Lord would keep my child as I gave her up.

* * * * *

The time had almost arrived for beginning the last preparations for the
long journey to China, when one day Ruth came in from her play with her
heavy coat almost in shreds, she having in some way torn it on a barbed
wire fence. The coat was the only heavy one she had, and I had planned
to make it do for the ocean voyage, intending to get a new one in
England. I tried to find a new one in the stores, but the season was
past and I could not; and I had no time to make another. I just took
the need to the Lord and left it there, believing that in some way he
would provide. A few days later a friend telephoned me that her mother
had recently returned from a visit to Chicago, and wished me to come
over to see a parcel she had brought for me. Oh, the relief that came
when I found that the parcel contained, among other things, a handsome
red cloth ulster, which fitted Ruth perfectly. This