in and again, when Mr. Goforth and his colleague visited the city,
they were mobbed and threatened, the people showing the utmost
hostility. But the day came, at last, when the long-prayed-for
permission from the presbytery to open Changte was granted. The very
next morning found Mr. Goforth _en route_ for Changte, to secure
property for a mission site. Often has he told how, all the way over
that day to Changte, he prayed the Lord to open the hearts of the
people, and make them willing to give him the property most suitable for
the work. Within three days of his reaching Changte he had thirty-five
offers of property, and was able to secure the very piece of land he had
earlier chosen as most ideal for the mission.

Thus the Lord did break in pieces the gates of brass which had kept us
so long from our promised land.

* * * * *

A year later I joined my husband there, with our three little children.
It was arranged that our colleague should take charge of the outside
evangelism, while we opened work at the main station.

To understand what it meant for us to have our need supplied, there
should be some knowledge of what that need was.

We decided, from the first, that no one should be turned from our doors.
Mr. Goforth received the men in the front guest room, while the women
and children came to our private quarters. During those first weeks and
months hundreds, nay thousands, crowded to see us. Day by day we were
literally besieged. Even at meal-time our windows were banked with
faces.

The questions ever before us those days were--how to make the most of
this wonderful opportunity, which would never come again after the
period of curiosity was past; how to win the friendship of this people,
who showed in a hundred ways their hatred and distrust of us; how to
reach their hearts with our wonderful message of a Saviour's love?

All that was in our power was to do, day by day, what we could with the
strength that was given us. From early morning till dark, sometimes nine
or ten hours a day, the strain of receiving and preaching to these
crowds was kept up. My husband had numbers of workmen to oversee,
material for building to purchase, and to see to all the hundred and one
things so necessary in building up a new station. Besides all this he
had to receive, and preach to, the crowds that came. He had no
evangelist, Mr. Wang being then loaned to Mr. MacG----. I had my three
little ch