On Saturday afternoon, June 20, 1936, Mother's eventful and useful life came to a close. Her passing was a great loss to the church as well as to her family. However, we bowed in submission to the sovereign will of God, realizing that He Who, years before, called to her, saying: "Daughter, give Me thine heart," had now called: "Come up Higher!"

With heavy hearts hundreds who had listened to Mother's sermons and teachings, gathered again in the tabernacle to honor the one who had founded this world-wide work of evangelism in 1907 in Portland, Oregon. It was just prior to the opening of the summer's camp meeting when Mother was called Home, and many visiting members were here to attend the funeral service.

Not only the throngs present that day mourned her passing, but people throughout the world with whom she had corresponded felt her loss. Messages of condolence came from personal friends and business friends, but the most heart-touching letters came from those in distant countries.

One "poor little black woman," as she called herself, wrote from British Guiana expressing her sorrow and also her gratitude for the interest Mother had taken in her. She had been converted through an Apostolic Faith tract given her in a market place. Later she became ill and the doctors pronounced her a leper. When they were preparing to take her away from her little children she wrote Mother, who laid the urgent request before the church for prayer. God healed the little woman of her leprosy. It is no wonder she keenly felt the loss of one who had been a real friend to her.

Similar letters which came from many in different parts of the world, were an encouragement to me to take up the Torch of Truth Mother had held for over thirty years and continue to lift it high. As a preacher and exponent of the Latter Rain Gospel, Mother had been raised up in our day, as Luther and Wesley were in their days. I am truly grateful for the inspiration her life imparted, not only to me, but to thousands of others who were influenced by her example of faith, courage, and endurance. Truly it can be said of her: She Was Called, Chosen, and Faithful.

I am grateful for the soldiers of the Cross who took their stand at my side and have labored shoulder to shoulder with me in this great field of evangelism; and the Gospel in all its purity, power, and fullness has continued to go forward both at home and abroad.