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about four hundred beds). As the registrar began to thumb through his records for the

name, another young clerk came in and courteously asked me whom I sought. I told
him Dr. Chow Chia-Su. He replied with a very solemn face and a shake of the head:
“Dr. Chow Chua-Su has left the earth.”
*The same beloved physician who knelt with Ernest and Faith Yin in their hour of sorrow as

recorded on page68.

About that time the registrar came across the record and nodded agreement with
what his colleague had told me, producing a yellow hospital record sheet, at which I

directed an amateur and Dr. Stearns a professional glance. There was a signed
statement by the attending physician that Dr. Chow had left this life, but the thing that
attracted my attention was the date and the time. It was on February 9 at 11:30 A. M.
When I first heard that our mathematics professor had passed away, I wondered for

just a moment why the Lord had brought me there after the death had already
occurred. But as soon as I saw the date and the time, I told Dr. Stearns, “I know now
that though you and I have missed seeing him, we shall meet the mathematics
professor one day in the glory.”

My friend asked me how I arrived at that conclusion. I told him that the Lord never
lays a burden of prayer such as was described to me by Dr. Cheng of Hankow, without
intending to answer such prayer. The fact that the passing of Dr. Chow exactly

coincided with the time that Dr. Cheng had arisen form his knees and was relieved of
his burden, gave double assurance that the prayer was in the Holy Spirit.

I bade my friend, Dr. Stearns, good-by and got on the train and returned to my

home, content to let the divine principle illustrated in this connection wait for eternity
for its vindication. In then council of God, I was not required to wait that long. Only a
few days afterward, I was asked to speak at a mission high school for girls in my own
city. The text that morning was from the Ninetieth Psalm, “So teach us to number our

days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” I completed the message with the
story of the Chinese educator in Wuchang whose heart had become aflame with the
love of Christ and who had called upon God with strong crying and tears to save his
friend. At the end of the story, I told them I felt certain, due to the prayer of this friend,

we should all have the pleasure of seeing Dr. Chow Chia-Su in the glory one day. As
the name of the mathematics professor slipped from my mouth, I noticed that there
were signs of recognition in the audience of girls. I thought that was not surprising
since he was a very eminent scholar and well known in Nanking and all through the

Yangtze Valley.

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