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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 18, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 7.

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“Wafted Perfume”

A MISSIONARY gives the following as one trophy of divine grace in China. Would that the same spirit of earnestness and devotion possessed the heart of every professed Christian!
A woman was brought to a hospital for treatment, having an incurable disease. She was ignorant of her physical danger; she was ignorant also of the great salvation. Her gentle nurse hastened to tell her the “old, old story of Jesus and his love.” It was new and wonderful to this heathen mind, but she at-once believed the good news, and accepted the freely offered salvation. Then she was eager to go to her friends with this glad message of the Saviour’s love. She said to her attendant: “Will you ask the doctor how soon I shall be well?”
Her friend returned with the message, “The doctors say that they must tell you the truth: you will never be well.”
“Please ask them how long I’ll live.”
The reply was, “Three months, with the care and comforts with which you are at present surrounded.”
“And how long shall I live if I go to my old home with the blessed message from heaven?”
“Possibly not more than three weeks.”
When the answer came, this new convert exclaimed: “Get my clothes; I will start to-day.”
Expostulation was useless, for she argued: “Do you think I count the loss of a few weeks of my life anything when I have such good news to tell my people who have never heard of the Saviour, and who will be lost if they do not know?”—Selected.