THE KING’ S BUSINESS 373 So much for the Japanese end of God’s working. As to the American end,' the editor of this magazine some time ago was led to think of Rev. Barclay Buxton whom he had met in Japan and also met at Keswick, and at his meetings in Cambridge University where Rev. Barclay Buxton had been one of his most efficient helpers, and he wrote inquiring about the needs of Mr. Buxton’s work in Japan, with the results recorded in this letter. It seems like another one of the many cases of God’s working with two men far removed from one another, but whom He wishes to co-operate with or help one another, just as He wrought with Cornelius in Cesarea at one end of the line, and Peter in Joppa at the other end of the line. TV/fY WORD SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID.” * In the same letter from Japan to which reference has been made, there is another paragraph illustrating the power of the Word of God. Mr. Dyer says: “ There is one item which I feel will be of special interest to you in con nection with the first Tent Mission held last month. On the last night of the services the wife of a Japanese evangelist who is working in the city of Hiro shima. about twenty miles distant, came over with her husband to that meeting and asked if she might be allowed to give her testimony. She spoke with great power iand some were melted to tears as she told the story of her search after God. She was living in Tokyo and was in deep concern about her soul, she went the round of the churches in that city but heard nothing that brought peace to a troubled conscience, she was in despair and brought to the verge of suicide, so great was her mental strain. Passing some church with an advertise ment of some evangelistic services at which you were announced to speak by interpretation (it was of course, when you were in Japan some years ago), she said the thought flashed through her mind as to whether she might not hear some wdrd that would bring her rest of soul, and so resolved to come to hear you.’ Your text that evening was'Gal. 6:7, and she was terribly searched by. the Spirit of God. She went home and spent the whole night before God and after a long struggle was very blessedly saved. She is a woman who knows God and is a real trophy of Divine grace. It struck me as very remarkable that one of the first speakers in these Tent services, which you have been instrumen tal in bringing about should have been one of the converts from your visit to Japan so many years ago, and yet she was utterly unconscious of your connec tion with the Tent at this time. It seemed to me another link in a very striking chain of events, as recorded in the article which I am enclosing with this letter, o f God’s leading.”
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