do not
know, but it could not have been more than half an hour when some one
came and touched me, saying, "We have dropped anchor in Yokohama Bay,
and a large bundle has been thrown up on deck from the lighter for you."

"For me!" I cried. "Surely not; I know no one in Japan." Then I thought,
"It is the answer come!"

Going down I found a letter from Mrs. O. E., of the China Inland
Mission. She said that her little son, the same age as baby Wallace, had
died four months before, and the Lord had pressed her to send his
complete outfit to me for my child! Opening the parcel, I found not only
everything the child could possibly need for a year or more, but much
else. Had some one stood beside that dear sister and told her what I
most needed, she could not have done differently. Yes, surely Some One
did direct her loving hands, and Some One just used her as one of his
channels; for she lived near to him, and was an open channel.

Three days later my own collapse came; but praise his great name, he was
with me in the darkness and brought me through.

VI

PROVING GOD'S FAITHFULNESS (1902-1908)

"The safest place . . . is the path of duty."

ONE of the results of our gracious and merciful deliverance from the
hands of the Boxers was an increased desire to make our lives tell in
the service of God--to spend and be spent for him. Our Heavenly Father
saw this and just took us at our word, and led us out into the path
which meant absolute surrender as I had never known it before.

It is so true that "God will be no man's debtor." When he asks for and
receives our all, he gives in return that which is above price--his own
presence. The price is not great when compared with what he gives in
return; it is our blindness and our unwillingness to yield that make it
seem great.

* * * * *

The following story has been asked for many times. Believing that it has
a lesson for others, I give it, though to do so means lifting the veil
from a very sacred part of my life.

After the Boxer experience, my husband returned to China in 1901; and,
with my children, I left for China in the summer of 1902, leaving the
two eldest children at the Chefoo schools, _en route_ to Honan. Mr.
Goforth met me at Tientsin, and together we traveled by river-boat
inland a journey of about twenty-four days. During those long, quiet
days on the river-boat my husband unfolded to me a carefully thought ou