V. Raymond Edman

Victor Raymond Edman was an American minister and author who served as the fourth President of Wheaton College in Illinois from 1941 to 1965. H e spoke in various countries around the world and wrote 19 books.

In his book They Found a Secret , under the title of A Personal Epilogue, he wrote about three crisis in his personal life.

Crisis one happened after the Armistic on Novemer 11th, 1918. He was ill and exhausted but he had been assigned the task of taking 4 men of the B Company of the 28th Infantry to C. Company. He found a quiet place and prayed for guidance .He became aware of a presence beside him who said I will go with you.When he arrived at his destination he was well cared for. (pages177/8).

The second crisis happened 5 years later when he was stricken down with typhus fever in the Andes of Ecuador… He knew he was dying. His new wife dyed her wedding dress black and a native coffin ordered. But there were others praying, with urgency in their petitions thirty-five hundred miles away, in Newton, Massachusetts on his behalf (p 178/180).

The third crisis happened one August morning of 1928. He was on board a freighter bound for New York City.
Once again he was ill - 'my physical condition kept me confined to the stateroom, except for brief occasions.'
He was perplexed -and uncertain what to do.

Quoting from the book.
‘The answer to his prayer was startling. By the small voice of the Holy Spirit there came the question
Are you willing to go any where for me?’ (p 182).

I have included Wikipedia’s information about V. Raymond Edman and the last four pages of his Personal Epilogue.