"I used to ask
God if He would come and help me. Then I asked if I could come and help
Him. Finally I ended by asking God to do His own work through me." - J.
Hudson Taylor
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While waiting in a cemetery to conduct a funeral service, Charles Simeon found one epitaph that arrested him.
"When from the dust of death I rise,
To claim my mansion in the skies,
E'en then shall this be all my plea--"
Jesus hath lived and died for me.""
He was so impressed that he looked for someone in the cemetery with whom he might share this. He saw a young woman, and called her over to read the epitaph. He took her address and visited her the next day. The home was a scene of poverty and squalor. The woman's old mother was dying of asthma, and two little children, very dirty, were trying to warm themselves by a small fire. Simeon prayed with the family, visited them again, and found assistance for them. Later, the young woman told Simeon that she had been in
