That was March 17, 1902, and we have kept the faith up to the present
time.
I'll never forget that prayer. Don't you think it pays to be on the
level with God? If you ask Him to help you He will. Just trust Him and
have a little backbone, and you will win out every time. I know now that
this experience was God teaching me a lesson and drawing me closer to
Him.
Things went differently now; I could not run the church very well alone,
so after a few months I handed in my resignation. The trustees wanted me
to stay, but I couldn't; sad memories would come up, and I simply had
to go. I left the old church where I had spent so many happy days with a
record of ten years that money could not buy. I go there once in a while
even now.
[Illustration: THE CHURCH OF SEA AND LAND.]
[Illustration: MIDNIGHT MISSION, CHINATOWN.]
CHAPTER VII
THE MISSION IN CHINATOWN
About two years previous to my wife's death a man, Mr. H. Gould, called
on me and asked me if I was the Ranney that was converted on the Bowery.
I said, "Yes, I was saved about ten years ago." He said, "I've a
proposal to make. I hear you are a natural-born leader of men, and I
think you look it.
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