ayers will prevail with God." Can we
doubt that their prayers had something to do with the marvelous revival
movement which followed?
When in England, in 1909, my husband was the guest of a lady in London
who was noted for her power in intercession. He was telling her of the
great revival movements he had been through, which took place in
different provinces of China; and she asked him to look at her diary, in
which were notes of times when she had been led out in special
intercession for Mr. Goforth. These dates exactly corresponded to the
times of greatest revival power.
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A few months after we returned to China from a furlough, I invited a
certain missionary and his wife and children to pay us a visit.
Peculiarly touching circumstances had led me to give this invitation.
Both husband and wife were in ill health, and greatly needed a change.
They resided in a far inland station, quite cut off from other
missionaries. They were not connected with any Society, and were looking
only to the Lord for their support. Just as these friends had started
toward us, on their five-days' journey, smallpox broke out at our
station, and one of the missionaries died. A telegram was sent, hoping
to catch them before they left, but it did not reach them until they
were a short distance from our station. Then the whole family had to
turn around, and once more take the long, trying journey, homeward. As
the weather was very cold at the time, one could imagine what a terrible
trial to faith the whole experience meant to them. I felt so deeply for
them that I planned to send sufficient to cover at least the expense of
the journey. But, on getting out of quarantine, I found I could not draw
on our treasurer for the fifty dollars needed, as Mr. Goforth was not at
home. However, the Lord had seen the need long before I felt it, and had
the exact amount ready. Three days after I got out of quarantine I
received a letter from Mr. Horace Goven, of the Faith Mission, Glasgow,
enclosing a draft for five pounds which, at the rate of exchange at that
time, came to fifty dollars Mexican. The gift came from the workers of
the mission, and he stated that they wished me to accept it as a
personal gift. Needless to say, the draft was sent off that same day to
the needy friends in the far-off station.
On one occasion, while we were temporarily stationed at Wei Hwei, Honan,
I was called to nurse a fellow missio
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