ting a few moments in her
father's arms, had looked into his face with one of her loveliest
smiles, and then quietly closed her eyes and had ceased to breathe. No
struggle, no pain, but a "falling on sleep."

"Like as a father pitieth, . . . so the Lord pitieth."

* * * * *

Ever-darkening clouds gathered about us during the months following
Gracie's death; and while the storm did not burst in all its fury till
the early summer of 1900, yet the preceding winter was full of
forebodings and constant alarms.

On one occasion thousands gathered inside and outside our mission,
evidently bent on serious mischief. My husband and his colleagues moved
in and out all that day among the dense crowd which filled the front
courtyards; while we women remained shut within closed houses, not
knowing what moment the mob would break loose and destroy us all. What
kept them back that day? What but trustful prayer! And the Lord heard
that day, and wonderfully restrained the violence of our enemies.

We did not know then, but those experiences were preparing us for the
greater trials and perils awaiting us all.

V

OUR DELIVERANCE FROM THE BOXERS (1900)

"God is unto us a God of deliverances" (Psa.
68:20, R. V.).

"Who delivered us out of so great a death, and
will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he
will also still deliver" (2 Cor. 1:10, R. V.).

MANY times we were asked in the homeland to tell the story of our escape
during the Boxer uprising, and often the question was put, "If it was
really God's power that saved you and others on that journey, then why
did he not save those of his children who were so cruelly done to
death?"

For a time this question troubled me. Why indeed? One day when seeking
for light on the matter I was directed to the twelfth chapter of Acts.
There I found the only answer that can be given. We are told in the
second verse that James was put to death by the sword; then the rest of
the chapter is given to the detailed record of Peter's wonderful
deliverance in answer to prayer (vs. 5, 12). In that day when all things
shall be revealed I am convinced we shall see that _prayer_ had much to
do in the working out of our deliverance. When the first cable was
received in Canada informing the home church of our party starting on
that perilous journey, we are told a great wave of prayer went up for us
from Chri