icient.

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It was on this same furlough that I came to have an enlarged vision of
my Heavenly Father's willingness to undertake in what some might term
the minor details of everyday life. Missionaries, especially we
missionary women, know only too well how we are criticized in the matter
of dress, when in the homeland and when traveling. I have had, through
the years, not only many amusing but trying experiences in this
connection, and I resolved to make the question of dress a definite
matter of prayer. And I rejoice to testify that the result of this
decision became a constant source of wonder and praise. Yes, I found the
Lord could guide me even in trimming my hat to his glory! That is, so
that I could stand up before an audience and not bring discredit to my
Master. Praise his name!

"There is nothing too great for his power,
And nothing too small for his love!"

At the time of the Great War a son had gone to England with the first
Canadian contingent. When this news reached us in China, I began to pray
definitely that the Lord would use my son's gifts in the best way for
his country's good, but would keep him back from the trenches and from
actual warfare. My boy did not know of this prayer.

Some weeks after reaching England he was looking forward to leaving for
the trenches in France, when orders came that he was needed in the
Orderly Room, and his unit left without him. Months later a call came
for volunteers, to fill the great gaps made at the time of the first
use of gas. My boy resigned his position, and joined the company of
volunteers to be sent to France. Just before they were to leave he was
again sent for from Headquarters, and told he was to go to the Canadian
Base in France as adjutant. His duties in this capacity kept him at the
Forwarding Base. A year later he again planned to resign, in order to
get to the trenches. He had begun making arrangements for this step,
when he had a fall from his horse, which caused him to be invalided home
to Canada, where he was kept till the close of the war.

It would indeed be difficult to persuade his mother that all this
happened by chance; for one day, when in great distress, expecting any
day a cable to say he had left for the trenches, I received a most clear
assurance from the Lord that he had the boy in his keeping.

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After our return to China, when i