She was only a poor Chinese country woman; just a cook. She had been sick, and was not strong enough to go on with her work, and it was suggested that as she knew the Lord, and His love, she might visit about amongst her neighbors, and tell some of them the good news. One scholarly old brother rather intimated that she was not capable of such work as this, and she quite fell in with his view of the matter: and absolutely refused to seek to go about with the Gospel at all.
That night while she was asleep she suddenly heard a voice say to her,'" Jonah! " Only one word. The call waked her up, and she instantly thought of all the story of Jonah, and how he was called to go and give a message; and the way he refused also to go. Then she thought of what happened to him, and her thoughts were not very happy as she realized how much alike she and Jonah were.
Next morning she cheerfully set out to visit a poor old woman up the street, to try and tell her about the Lord.
Do you think the Lord might ever say to you or me, " Jonah? "