The Author's Spiritual Confirmation of Her Marriage

“On the last night before our meeting after a separation of over three years, as I lay alone in bed in the mission house at Liverpool, I felt in full the significance of the time, the place and purpose of my being there. It seemed that a heaviness mixed with anxiety and anticipation was almost to overcome me. I arose from my bed and offered a second prayer to my Father in Heaven, to give me that peace and surety that I felt, when with a prayerful heart I had sought counsel in making the great decision of my life. I asked Him to tell me again beyond any doubt whether or not we were for each other and to prepare me for the meeting. The answer came unmistakably that it was all right and not to be dispelled by any power of darkness. Also I was shown that the path we should tread would not be all roses. I slept with satisfaction born of gratitude and joyfully the next day met my future husband with a knowledge that has never known the shadow of a doubt through the twenty-seven years that have fled by since our wedding day.”

— Unnamed author, The Young Woman's Journal