MRS. ROBINSON DID NOT return to Zion City until June, 1911. In time meantime she had ministered in Toronto and continued with her prayer and her ministry of inter­cession in behalf of others whom the Lord chose to help thereby. From time to time this call became so pressing that the Lord caused her to retire from public ministry al­together just to give herself to prayer. The conduct of the meetings and of the Home was then left to her associates. The victories which resulted from these protracted seasons of tarrying were unspeakably great and beneficial both to herself and to others. In May, before going to Zion City, the Lord led the Robinsons to visit his mother in Montreal. After their departure tine work in Toronto was closed and moved to Zion City. Meanwhile, some marked changes had taken place in the work in Zion City. A much larger, more commodious place for living and holding meetings, located on Emmaus Av­enue, was rented in November. As tine work grew, there was need for still another house, and in the spring of 1911, one of the finest frame residences in the entire city, at 2820 Eshcol Avenue, was rented and furnished under the direct guidance of the Holy Spirit. It was in this house that Mr. and Mrs. Robinson took up their abode when they came in June. During the summer the tent was again erected, this time on the vacant lots directly across from the Eshcol Avenue Home. Services were held in it until a vehement, ripping wind, with one fell swoop, laid the tent flat on the ground—to the great rejoicing of the enemies of the work. Forthwith, the meetings were transferred and thereafter held in the Eshcol Home, where the large downstairs rooms were so arranged as to afford accommodations for large audiences. All the while, the work continued to grow with more and more visitors coming to receive the benefit of the teaching given. This fact, together with the moving of the personnel of the Toronto home to Zion City, necessitated additional living quarters. These were found in a house at 2710 [now 2736] Enoch Avenue which was rented in August, 1911. Shortly after the Enoch Home was opened, the first wedding of the work took place. On August 30, Mrs. Robin­son’s first associate minister, Eva MacPhail, was married to William Leggett, oldest brother of Mrs. Brooks and Mrs. Mitchell, with Mrs. Robinson as matron of honor. ‘Mrs. Robinson’s joy over the bride’s happiness was some­what dimmed by a dark shadow which had just fallen upon her own pathway. As she extended her best wishes to the bride, therefore, she cried, not because of the marriage, she hastened to reassure Mrs. Leggett, but because her own be­loved husband was not present. A few days before, in one of his recurrent moods of discouragement and depression, Mr. Robinson had suddenly gone to Montreal. With the coming of Mrs. Robinson to Zion City in 1911, and with the opening of the third home soon after, the work assumed the outward form which, with minor changes and variations, it was to bear throughout the remainder of her life. It is outside the scope of this narrative to give a com­plete history of this work as such, but only those details as may be necessary to understand better the setting in which Mrs. Robinson lived and ministered for the remaining twenty-five years of her life. The three homes, each one of which maintained its own family life under the supervision of a ministerial couple, were under one administration which came to be known as the Faith Homes. The fact is, the work never had an official name. Nor did it have any formal organization as that term is generally used, for there were no officers such as president and secretary, etc. The affairs of the Homes were conducted by the entire group of ministers waiting upon the Lord for His direction and decision regarding every thing which pertained to them. It was a “spiritual arrangement,” made by the Lord Himself, whereby He, and no man or woman, was in reality the Head. This method proved a stronger bond for fellowship and basis of operation than any human organization with its constitution, by-laws, and elected or appointed officers. In this respect, the govern­ment of the Faith homes was indeed unique. Now if the government of the Faith Homes was unique, the way in which they were advertised and were supported was equally unique. It may be remembered that when regu­lar meetings were to be started in Toronto in 1909, the Lord had indicated that the ministers were not to advertise them but to let the Lord send whom He would. What might seem to have been a temporary injunction turned out to be per­manent policy. With the single exception of the printing and distribution of handbills announcing the first tent meetings in Zion City, no cards or announcements of the services were printed or sent out. Throughout Mrs. Robinson’s life no letters were sent out in behalf of the Homes, nor was any paper or report of the work published. Furthermore, there was not so much as a nameplate above the doorbell, much less a sign to indi­cate the location or even the existence of the work. (How could there be when it had no official name?) In spite of this absence of even the simplest of advertising, people from all over the world found their way to these un­marked, simple homes in a small, midwestern city. Through the years the Faith Homes entertained literally thousands of guests, laymen as well as ministers, of almost every nation­ality of the civilized world, people of different races and of various denominations. One visitor told another of the milk and of the honey and of the wine made from the “grapes of Eshcol.” Thus the work was advertised by its fruits, and others came to taste and to see for themselves. The result was a cosmopolitan crowd—white and black, rich and poor, educated and uneducated—but all united in one common purpose, to know Jesus better. Some of the visitors attended one of the services held three times daily (except Saturday) and then returned to their own homes. Others stayed for a meal or overnight, perhaps for two or three days or for a weekend. Still others remained for a week or more. Anyone was welcome to stay as a guest for two weeks. If anyone desired to stay beyond that time, the ministers enquired of the Lord if it was His will. If the Lord indicated that it was, the visitor was then expected, with rare exceptions, to share in the performance of the household duties in one or another of the three Homes. There were a number of people who remained in the Homes for longer or shorter periods of time, as the Lord led. Some of these were in training, as students, for Christian work. Altogether, the residents and guests of the three Homes num­bered, on an average, about fifty. These were served from a common treasury by a common buyer. But where did the money come from for the support of the ministers and residents of the Faith Homes? Neither Mrs. Robinson nor any of the other ministers had any financial resources upon which to draw. Nor did anyone underwrite the expenses. No offerings were taken in any of the meetings except on the first Sunday of the month—and those went to foreign missions. Nor was a single resident or guest charged or asked to contribute so much as a single penny toward his room and board. Nor did any of the minis­ters or workers hint about the needs of the work—much less solicit anything from anybody privately or publicly. Just how, then, were the food, fuel, light, and rent for the three homes supplied? By the Father in Heaven. The Homes were His homes, and those who lived there were His children. He knew what was needed and guaranteed to supply every need in response to the faith of Mrs. Robinson and her associates. Often money and supplies came from the most unexpected sources, but He never failed. Equally miraculous to the way in which God supplied the material needs of this large family was the way in which He regulated the flow of visitors, quite a number of whom arrived without any advance notice whatsoever. With the rarest of exceptions, however, all who came were able to be accommodated. How often did guests vacate their rooms only to have them filled within an hour or so by other guests who unexpectedly arrived! Only God Himself by His own outstretched hand could have so controlled the comings and goings of such a number of people, for, upon a little consider­ation, it is evident that only confusion and chaos could arise out of such a setup as this under any other circumstances. To grasp the purpose of the Faith Homes, one must realize that they were born out of the experience which Mrs. Robin­son had in 1907 after she had “cried to God” to let her get to the place where she would never, never have to do any­thing her way, but that Christ would live out His own life within her. As a result of this intercession and her complete obedience to the commands of Christ, He fully revealed Him­self to her according to John 14:21 and 23. And now the thing which God desired to do in the Faith Homes as a group was what He had done in her individually—have His com­plete way about everything, down to the smallest detail of the home’s life—planning the menus, assigning people to cer­tain rooms and to various household duties, etc. To do this required a group of people who passionately wanted to please Jesus in everything and who were also con­secrated to let Him have His entire way within them, no matter how that way might go counter to their own natural ways and desires. This course persisted in can result in nothing else than the utter crucifixion of one’s flesh and the manifesta­tion of Christ alone. And that was what God was after. Con­sequently, the Lord opened the Faith Homes as a place where those whom He brought there might be taught that “the call of God to every soul, whether a preacher, a teacher, or a secular worker, [is] to know Jesus better every clay by obedience to His Word;” that one must know not only the letter of the ‘Word but pray it into the life; that the Bible must be lived, the commands of Jesus can and must be obeyed. The Word of God definitely states that the enemy is wroth with those “which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Therefore, it is to be expected that any individual or group which purposes to do the will of God will be strongly opposed by him. Furthermore, those who sincerely want to live this way meet with a struggle in their natures, for the flesh warreth against tine Spirit, and these are contrary the one to the other, so that people cannot do the things they would. There are many lessons to be learned in the process. It is so easy to lean to one’s own understanding. It is difficult to realize that even one’s good, religious thoughts are not always God’s thoughts, nor one’s good ways, God’s ways. It is not always easy to wait until God reveals His will. The natural man is in such a hurry. Truly, to live an utterly committed life requires not only deep consecration, humility, and self-denial, but also patience and faith. If this is true of an individual, how much more so of a group of people, all of them strong characters, extreme indi­viduals, with a wide divergence of temperaments, ideas, and manners. Add to these traits the difference in spiritual expe­rience, lights, and comprehension of the will of God. Only the grace and wisdom of God could bring harmony and vic­tory out of such circumstances. Perfection in the execution of God’s plan for the Faith Homes was never claimed, and the imperfections and failures incident to the endeavor were humbly acknowledged by the ministers. And no one was more painfully aware or sorrowed more over these than Mrs. Robinson, who more than anyone else realized what it meant that in all things Christ should have the pre-eminence. Yet, in spite of all the opposition and failure, they did better than anyone gave them credit for and approximated God’s desire more than most people think is possible to do here on earth. Moreover, God undertook to give them special help for the accomplishment of His purposes. To do this in them personally and in the Homes as a whole, He taught them “to take a little time each day praying and praising about this— that Jesus Christ is this day being revealed, and to be re­vealed in and to you, and that this very day you will know Jesus better and have a closer relation to Jesus.” Daily each one was to claim that Jesus Himself, the glorified Christ, would manifest and show forth Himself, setting things to rights, stopping mouths, supplying needs, bringing about results. “Ask God to give you the light, faith, and grasp that whatever is done here will be done by the Lord Jesus Christ.” And as people did this, He kept His covenant with them and did exceeding abundantly above all that anyone would ask or even think. A holy anointing continually rested upon the work and the workers because Christ, the Anointed One, was recognized as in the midst.