For  the  chief  difficulty  still  remained.  Dr.  Hardey  had  not
remembered  ;  and  though  prayer  was  unremitting,  other
matters  appeared  entirely  to  engross  his  attention.  It
would  have  been  so  easy  to  remind  him.  But  what  then  of
the  lesson  upon  the  acquirement  of  which  Hudson  Taylor
felt  his  future  usefuhiess  depended — "  to  move  man  through
God,  by  prayer  alone  "  ?

"  This  remarkable  and  gracious  deliverance,"  he  continued,  "  was
a  great  joy  to  me  as  well  as  a  strong  confirmation  of  faith.  But  of
course  ten  shillings  however  economically  used  will  not  go  very  far,
and  it  was  none  the  less  necessary  to  continue  in  prayer,  asking  that
the  larger  supply  which  was  still  due  might  be  remembered  and  paid.
136  THE  GROWTH  OF  A  SOUL

All  my  petitions,  however,  appeared  to  remain  unanswered,  and  before
a  fortnight  elapsed  I  found  myself  pretty  much  in  the  same  position
that  I  had  occupied  on  the  Sunday  night  already  made  so  memor-
able. Meanwhile  I  continued  pleading  with  God  more  and  more
earnestly  that  He  would  Himself  remind  Dr.  Hardey  that  my  salary
was  due.
