A True Story of Deliverance

GOD'S COUNTENANCE WAS SEEN UPON HER
From Clara Leffingwell, A Missionary


Ps 4:6 -- "There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up THE LIGHT OF THY COUNTENANCE UPON US."

Numbers 6:26 -- "THE LORD LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON THEE, and give thee peace."

Positive Things happen, when the Lord's Own Countenance is seen upon one of His Children! At a gathering of Missionaries from several areas who were leaving China due to the Boxer riots, this story is given.

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Miss Leffingwell gives an interesting instance of deliverance from death. “There was a lady missionary whom the Boxers told to kneel down and have her head cut off (as kneeling for this purpose is a favorite method of execution). The lady kneeled as told; but as she did so, she looked up into the man’s face and actually smiled. As she looked at him a moment thus smiling, it seemed as if his face began to change and to reflect the smile. He stepped back a little and then continued to withdraw, together with his companions, until after a little they all fled, leaving the missionary ladies there alone; and yet they were not alone, for God was with them, as He was with the 3 Hebrew children in the fiery furnace

“As the Boxers were rapidly going away the leader turned and said to the lady: ‘You cannot die. You are immortal.’ If her face had shown fear, they would have killed her without hesitation. I suppose that smile seemed supernatural. She afterwards said, ‘I did not know that I smiled.’”