Have you ever had the experience of feeling that God has guided you only for everything to seemingly go wrong? If you have been, this article from the pen of a missionary of the 1930s, Mildred Cable, might help.
‘It was well that it was in thine heart’.
‘We have carefully considered your case and have very regretfully reached the conclusion that we cannot accept you for foreign service.’
The Secretary of the Missionary Society was exceedingly kind and tried to say helpful things, but it was a heavy blow and it shattered a whole edifice of hopes. For the second time this recruit had been rejected by a Mission Board.
