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While in Tientsin
with my children during the revolution in 1912, I had occasion to go into the
Chinese city with my servant. We visited three stores. On our way home by the
tramway I discovered I had lost a five-dollar bill and one of my gloves. I
had foolishly put the bill inside the glove. Ashamed to let the Chinese
servant know of my carelessness, I sent him home when we reached the end of
the tram line. As soon as he was out of sight I took the tram back to the
city. On the way I confessed to the Lord my carelessness, and asked him to
keep the glove and money, and lead me to where they were. I retraced my steps
back to two of the stores where we had been. As I entered the second, which
was a shoe store, a number of men were in the shop; but there, right in sight
of all, on the floor lay my glove, and I knew of course with the five dollars
inside. It was with a heart full of gratitude to my loving Heavenly Father,
and an enlarged vision of his love, that I picked up the glove and returned
home that day.
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From
Rosalind Goforth, How I know God
answers prayer, Philadelphia,
The Sunday School Times Company, 1921, pages 114-115
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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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