ildren, and no nurse or Bible-woman. When too exhausted to
speak longer to the courtyard of women, I would send for my husband, who
though tired out would speak in my stead. Then we would rest ourselves,
and entertain the crowd, by singing a hymn.

So the days passed. But we soon realized that help must come, or we
would both break down.

One day Mr. Goforth came to me with his Bible open at the promise, "My
God shall supply all your need," and asked: "Do we believe this? If we
do, then God can and will supply us with some one to help preach to
these crowds, if we ask in faith."

He prayed very definitely for a man to preach. With my doubt-blinded
heart, I thought it was as if he were asking for rain from a clear sky.
Yet, even while he prayed, God was moving one to come to us. A day or
two later there appeared at the mission the converted opium fiend, Wang
Fu-Lin, whose conversion has been already recorded.

No one could have looked less like the answer to our prayers than he
did. Fearfully emaciated from long years of excessive opium smoking,
racked with a cough which three years later ended his life, dressed in
such filthy rags as only a beggar would wear, he presented a pitiable
sight. Yet the Lord seeth not as man seeth.

After consulting together Mr. Goforth decided to try him for a few days,
believing that he could at least testify to the power of God to save a
man from his opium. Soon he was reclothed in some of my husband's
Chinese garments; and within an hour or two of his entering the mission
gate, practically a beggar, he was seated in charge of the men's
chapel, so changed one could scarcely have recognized him.

From the first day of his ministry at Changte there was no doubt in the
minds of any who heard him that he had indeed been sent to us by our
gracious God, for he had in a remarkable degree the unction and power of
the Holy Ghost. His gifts as a speaker were all consecrated to one
object--the winning of souls to Jesus Christ. He seemed conscious that
his days were few, and always spoke as a dying man to dying men. Little
wonder is it, therefore, that from the very beginning of his ministry in
our chapel men were won to Christ. God spared him to us for the
foundation laying of the church at Changte, then called him higher.

* * * * *

Mr. Goforth's need was relieved by the coming of Wang Fu-Lin, but not
mine. The remarkable way God had sent him, however, gave me