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EXPECTANT FAITH

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 13.

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EXPECTANT FAITH.

HUDSON TAYLOR was a man of great faith in God, as well as a great missionary. When he first went out to China, it was in a sailing vessel. Very close to the shores of a cannibal island the ship was becalmed, and it was slowly drifting shoreward, unable to tack about, and the savages were eagerly anticipating a feast. The captain came to Mr. Taylor and besought him to pray for the help of God.
“I will,” said Taylor, “provided you set your sails to catch the breeze.”
The captain declined to make himself a laughing stock by unfurling sails in a dead calm.
Taylor said, “I will not undertake to pray for the vessel unless you will prepare the sails.”
And it was done. While engaged in prayer, there was a knock at the door of his stateroom.
“Who is there?”
The captain’s voice responded, “Are you still praying for wind?”
“Yes.”
“Well, said the captain, you’d better stop praying, for we have more wind than we can well manage.”
And sure enough, when but a hundred yards from shore, a strong wind had struck the sails of the boat, so that the cannibals were cheated out of their human prey.—Christian Budget.