As a boy, I loved good Christian biographies. One day I found my father’s copy of Archibald Glover’s massive “A 1000 Miles of Miracle in China,” It is a must-read for serious saints. It tells the harrowing, miraculous story of some CIM missionaries fleeing the Boxers who were intent on killing “the foreign devils.” One scene is with me still. After unspeakable horrors, Glover’s pregnant wife, and mother of two young children, who had been such an example of faith, collapsed: “Oh, God has forsaken us! It can only be that we are not in His will or He would surely never have allowed us to come to this!” A fellow traveler, Miss Gates, knelt at her side and “holding her hand, she poured forth passage after passage, promise after promise, from the Scriptures, exalting His name, declaring His faithfulness…” “Instantly,” writes Glover, “the darkness was past…From that moment her glorious faith never wavered.” “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another” (1 Thess 5:11).