"The Spirit of God was at work among us at this time of refreshing, and we knew it. It was a wonderfully quiet prayer-revival. It grew perfectly natural to see missionaries meet on the paths, stop to talk and then pray together at the side of the pathway; or one saw them at prayer among the bushes and behind rocks. It was said that every cupboard and corner in the little houses was used continually for prayer.
All those who experienced this prayer-revival went back to their stations to make united prayer for revival a first priority in the work, and to see that it was not allowed to be pushed out into the sphere of unessentials as it had so often been before. Out of this grew the daily fellowship in prayer with Chinese fellow-workers, which naturally led to revival on mission stations and in surrounding districts, as the promise in Matt. 18:19 assures us: "I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
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Marie Monsen (1878 - 1962)
Was a Norwegian missionary active in North and Central China between 1901 and 1932. Marie Monsen was born in 1878 in Sandviken, Norway. Monsen started her working life as a graduate teacher and arrived in China on 1 September 1901. She began a three-term, 30-year mission, becoming an important figure in the history of the charismatic renewal in China. While popular with the Chinese, she was nonetheless marginalized by some traditionalists in Norway due to her heterodox Christian beliefs.Monsen figures prominently in the introduction of The Heavenly Man, a true account of the life of Liu Zhenying, a contemporary Chinese Christian better known as Brother Yun. In 1999 Yun asked the congregation of a church in Bergen to prepare a monument representing Monsen's missionary work in Henan, his home province. The monument was completed in 2001.