Page 110 - Living Epistles

American workers were largely exceeded, and many new friendships were
formed and old ones strengthened...

Mr. Taylor's chief object in coming over being the settlement of the work
upon a permanent basis, he gave much time to meetings with the Council and
intercourse with its individual members. The number of the latter was
increased, and Mr. Sandham finding it necessary, on account of many
engagements, to retire from the position he had held, Mr. Frost was invited
to assume the sole responsibility as Treasurer and Secretary, making his
home in Toronto.

So this was what it had all been leading to! In view of recent experiences, he
was himself prepared for a life of faith with regard to temporal supplies; but
he knew that Mrs. Frost would feel giving up their lovely home very keenly,
on account of the children.

"One day as I was in the parlor, resting," he wrote of this critical time, "my
wife, unknown to me, was waiting upon God in her own room for guidance.
While thus engaged she was led to open her Bible and to read in the book of
Haggai; and she had not read long in this portion of Scripture before she had
the light for which she had been so earnestly seeking. A moment later I heard
her coming to me across the library and hall. She stepped to my side, and
without a word laid her open Bible on my knee, pointing as she did so to the
fourth verse of the first chapter of Haggai. I looked at the words indicated
and read as follows:

‘Is it a time for you, 0 ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lie
waste?'

"It was not necessary that my wife should say anything to explain her
meaning; the lesson was self-evident. One look in her face showed me that
the Lord had won the victory for her, and one look at the ceiling overhead
settled the question finally for myself. From that hour, though it was not an
easy thing to do, we were united in our desire to give up our home, in order
that we might have part in the building of that spiritual house, the temple of
Christ's body, which we knew the Lord was waiting to see completed."

Gladly would Mr. Taylor have made it possible for the step to be taken
without financial difficulty; but while he could give them enough for the
actual move, there was little over. The contributions at Niagara and in other