Now I ask you, raise up hot hearts in yourselves and quickly help
us."

"First. Will you come back to China with me?"

"Second. If _you_ cannot, will you cause others to come, by sending
them and doing what you can to help them to come?"

Mrs. Ahok had planned for a six months' visit in England, but word came
that her husband was ill, and she left in July, after a stay of a little
less than four months, during which she had addressed large audiences in
approximately one hundred meetings in England and Ireland. The impression
she had made there may be gathered from a paragraph which appeared in
_India's Women and China's Daughters_, after she had left:

"Those who saw Mrs. Ahok's earnest face, and listened to some of
the most simple and heart-stirring words ever heard on an English
platform, will recall the impression her plea for her countrywomen
then made.... If God should open the way for Mrs. Ahok again to
visit England, she will be welcomed as one who brought home the
reality of missions to many a conscience in England, and revived
the flagging spirits to zeal for the Lord of Hosts!"

Mrs. Ahok went home by way of Canada, accompanied by Miss Mead, one of the
new workers for whom she had been pleading. She did not realize how
seriously ill her husband was, for he had written cheerfully: "Tell Mrs.
Ahok that I have been a little ill for some weeks and that now I am staying
at the Ato house. I find it very restful staying quietly at the old
home.... Tell Mrs. Ahok, please, not to worry at all about me." On saying
good-bye to friends in England Mrs. Ahok told them that she hoped to come