ive, I gave out a hymn. A few moments
later he walked into the tent in his old brisk way, looking quite well.
At the close of the meeting he told me that shortly after he heard me go
out the pain in his head and chest ceased, the fever seemed to leave
him, and when he started for the tent he felt quite well. The symptoms
did not return.

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When on a visit to a certain out-station, after being there two whole
days, scarcely any women had come to see us. We were so circumstanced
that I could not leave the children. The third day I became so burdened
in prayer that I could only shut myself up in an empty room and cry to
the Lord to send women to us, as he knew I could not leave the children.
From that day we always had plenty of visitors to keep us busy, either
Christian women studying or heathen women listening to the Gospel.

At Tzuchow, the first place we opened together, the people seemed much
set against us. After the first period of curiosity was over, no one
came to hear the Gospel. As we had a nice place for the children to play
in with their faithful nurse,--the one who saved Ruth's life in
1900,--Mrs. Wang and I determined to go out each afternoon and try to
reach the heathen women with the Gospel. Before going out we always
prayed the Lord to open a door to us for preaching. And as I now recall
that time, never once did we return home without being invited into some
home to preach, or at least being asked to sit on a doorstep and tell of
a Saviour from sin.

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One of the most outstanding evidences of God's favor and blessing was
seen, at this time, in the way he provided my husband with native
helpers. To carry on the plan of work we had adopted required a good
force of trusty evangelists. Time and again we looked to the Lord for
men and women to help us, and the answer always came.

As my husband always seemed to have plenty of men to help him, he was
frequently asked for evangelists by his fellow-missionaries of both our
own and other missions. I was at first opposed to his giving away his
best men, but he would answer, "The Lord has been good to me; should I
be less generous with my brethren?" And it certainly was remarkable how,
whenever he gave a really valuable evangelist, another man, even better,
was raised up shortly after. The secret of his getting men may be seen
best through words of his own, taken from a letter to