Books by Rosalind Goforth

Rosalind Goforth (6 May 1864 - 31 May 1942) was a Presbyterian missionary, and author.Born Florence Rosalind Bell-Smith near Kensington Gardens, London, England, she moved at three with her parents to Montreal, Canada.Her father, John Bell-Smith, was an artist, and she also intended to go into art. She graduated from the Toronto School of Art in May 1885, and she began preparing to return to London that autumn with the intention of completing her art studies.Instead, however, she married Jonathan Goforth on 25 October 1887 at Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto, Canada, and they both served God in Manchuria and China.They had eleven children, five of which died as babies or very young children. Rosalind died in Toronto, Canada, and is buried alongside her husband at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

Description:Born on a farm in Canada, Jonathan Goforth''s ambition as a young boy was to study and become a politician. Little did he know then what the future held in store. At the age of eighteen he was converted to Christianity and immediately became interested in missionary work. After attending Knox College in Canada, he set out for China with his wife, Rosalind.Many hardships and trials followed. Their first child died in the spring of the following year. Others were later claimed by malaria and menengitis. In 1900 the Goforths, along with others, had to flee before the Boxer uprising. Their escape was a miracle in itself.Goforth of China is the amazing story of a man with unusual vision and determination.

Description:These are soul-stirring stories recording God''s miraculous power in the conversion of men as seen in mission work during the forty years these missionary warriors labored in China.The vivid pen-sketches titled ""The Blind Chief,"" ""The Idol Maker,"" and ""The Gambler''s End"" take the reader into the heart of Chinese village life. The triumphant accounts of God''s grace in the lives of ""A Chinese Shakespeare"" and ""A Faithful Pastor,"" and the record of how the students were reached makes for vigorous and enheartening reading. The closing chapter contains a brief sketch of the famous Christian General, Marshall Feng Yu-hsiang.This companion volume to By My Spirit is rich with incidents from the lives of these two saints of God. We see, in reading such a volume as this, that we are still serving a miracle-working God.