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The time
had almost arrived for beginning the last preparations for the long journey
to China,
when one day Ruth came in from her play with her heavy coat almost in shreds,
she having in some way torn it on a barbed wire fence. The coat was the only
heavy one she had, and I had planned to make it do for the ocean voyage,
intending to get a new one in England. I tried
to find a new one in the stores, but the season was past and I could not; and
I had no time to make another. I just took the need to the Lord and left it
there, believing that in some way he would provide. A few days later a friend
telephoned me that her mother had recently returned from a visit to Chicago, and
wished me to come over to see a parcel she had brought for me. Oh, the relief
that came when I found that the parcel contained, among other things, a
handsome red cloth ulster, which fitted Ruth perfectly. This fresh evidence
of the Lord’s overshadowing care touched me deeply. Those who have never
known such tokens of the Lord’s loving care in the little things of life can
scarcely understand the blessedness that such experiences bring.
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From
Rosalind Goforth, How I know God
answers prayer, Philadelphia,
The Sunday School Times Company, 1921, pages 101-102
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Rosalind Bell-Smith Goforth was born near London, England, and moved with her parents to Montreal, Canada, three years later. Her Dad was an artist, and
Rosalind graduated from the Toronto School of Art in 1885. In 1887 she
married Jonathan Goforth. They served together as missionaries in China and Manchuria. They were married for forty-nine years and had eleven children
(Gertrude, Donald, Paul, Florence, Helen, Grace, Ruth, William, [Amelia] Constance,
Mary, and [John] Frederick), five of whom died as babies or very young
children. She was the author of How I Know God Answers Prayer (1921), her
husband's biography, Goforth of China (1937), and Climbing: Memoirs of a
Missionary's Wife (1940).
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