author
Rosalind Goforth
1864–1942
Raised between England and Canada, she became a Presbyterian missionary in China and turned years of danger, grief, and perseverance into widely read books. Her writing helped preserve a vivid firsthand record of missionary life in China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
2 Audiobooks
How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time
by Rosalind Goforth
Chinese Diamonds for the King of Kings
by Rosalind Goforth
About the author
Born Florence Rosalind Bell-Smith in London on May 6, 1864, she moved to Montreal as a small child and later studied art in Toronto. In 1887 she married Jonathan Goforth, and the couple soon left for China as Presbyterian missionaries.
She spent decades in China, especially in Honan and Manchuria, where she lived through unrest, repeated hardship, and the Boxer era. Alongside missionary work and raising a large family, she became known for clear, energetic writing shaped by direct experience.
Rosalind Goforth wrote several books, including How I Know God Answers Prayer, Goforth of China, Climbing, and, with her husband, Miracle Lives of China. She died in Toronto on May 31, 1942, and is remembered both for her missionary work and for the personal, dramatic voice of her memoirs and biographies.