ALTHOUGH in my ninety-first year, I gladly accede to the courteous request of the Publisher to write a brief foreword to this new and cheaper edition of my dear son’s book. The work does not need my commendation. The simple fact that it has already passed through Eight Editions (completing 14,000 copies), and has besides been thought worthy of translation into several foreign languages, may be regarded as sufficient proof of the hold it has taken upon the general public.
The record is well entitled “A Thousand Miles of Miracle,” for no reader can fail to see the finger of God, as well in the grace that supported himself and his family, as in the marvelous and multiplied deliverances of which they were the subjects during those many weeks of “daily dying” under the cruelties of the heathen Chinese Boxers. God has greatly blessed its perusal to multitudes of readers in all parts of the world, and has used it also in no small measure to the furtherance of the Missionary cause. And I may well bless Him for permitting me the joy in my advanced age of seeing it launched upon a yet wider field of usefulness in an edition which places it within the reach of all, even the poorest.
I would only add, in the words of the apostle John, “I have no greater joy than to see my children walk in the truth,” except it be the resultant joy of seeing them the instruments in the Saviour’s hand of leading others so to walk, by “turning them,” as this personal testimony is calculated to do, “from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.”
RICHARD GLOVER.