How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-time

Rosalind Goforth

Sunday School Times Company, 1921 - Biography & Autobiography - 142 pages

IT seems fitting that this little book of personal testimonies to answered prayer should have a brief introductory word as to how they came to be written. The question has been asked by some who read many of these testimonies as they appeared in the pages of The Sunday School Times: "How could you write such personal and sacred incidents in your life?" I could not have written them but for a very clear, God-given leading.

The story is as follows: When in Canada on our first furloughs I was frequently amazed at the incredulity expressed when definite testimony was given to an answer to prayer. Sometimes this was shown by an expressive shrug of the shoulders, sometimes by a sudden silence or turning of the topic of conversation, and sometimes more openly by the query: "How do you know that it might not have happened so, anyway?"

Gradually the impression deepened: "If they will not believe one, two, or a dozen testimonies, will they believe the combined testimonies of one whole life?"

The more I thought of what it would mean to record the sacred incidents connected with answers to prayer the more I shrank from the publicity, and from undertaking the task. There were dozens of answers far too sacred for the public eye, which were known only to a few, others known only to God. But if the record were to carry weight with those who did not believe in the supernatural element in prayer, many personal and scarcely less sacred incidents must of necessity be made public.

Contents

• I: 1
• II: 6
• III: 15
• IV: 28
• V: 43
• VI: 69
• VII: 89
• VIII: 105
• IX: 124
• X: 131

About the author

Rosalind Goforth (6 May 1864 - 31 May 1942) was a Presbyterian missionary, and author.[1] 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-time
• Author: Rosalind Goforth
• Publisher: Sunday School Times Company, 1921
• Original from: Columbia University
• Digitized: Jul 17, 2009
• ISBN: 1989743072, 9781989743072
• Length: 142 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Healing / Prayer & Spiritual; Religion / Christian Living / Inspirational; Religion / Christian Living / Prayer; Religion / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth; Self-Help / General