picked up the glove and returned home that day.

* * * * *

On one occasion when on furlough with several little children, and my
husband in China, I had no settled home. When the time came to do the
sewing for the long journey back to China, I had simply no way to get it
done. I just had to look to the Lord; and, as so often before, he was
again faithful, and opened the way. When shopping down town, one day, I
met a minister's wife from a distant country charge, who said: "I want
you to come with all your children, and get your sewing done with me. A
number of the ladies of our congregation sew well, and will be delighted
to help you."

I gratefully accepted her invitation, and while staying with her a
sewing-bee was held in the church. In one week the sewing was finished,
which would have taken me many weeks of hard, constant labor to
accomplish alone.

* * * * *

The winter of our return from China, after the Boxer tragedies, I felt
keenly the need of a good sewing machine, as I could not possibly do
the children's sewing by hand and still get time for meetings. One day,
as my husband was leaving on a deputation tour, I asked him for money
for a machine. He assured me it was impossible; that we had only
sufficient for bare necessities. I knew well he would gladly give me
money for the machine if he had it. So I laid my need before my Father,
confident that he knew it was a real need, and that according to his
promise he could and would supply it.

I was so sure that somehow the money would come, that I went down town
especially to choose a suitable machine. I found it would cost
thirty-six dollars. A few days later I received a letter from a band of
ladies in Mount Forest, Ontario, enclosing twenty-three dollars and some
odd cents, and saying: "Please accept the enclosed to buy something you
have lost as our substitute in China." Only a day or two later another
letter came, from quite another part of Ontario, enclosing twelve
dollars and some cents. The two amounts came to exactly the sum I needed
to purchase the machine.

The second letter stated that the money was sent to help me buy a sewing
machine. It has always been a puzzle to me how they came to send the
money in that way, for I had not spoken to any one but my husband about
wanting a machine. When Mr. Goforth returned I was able to show him what
the Lord could give me, though he could no