1913 was a difficult year for Britain. It was the year before the outbreak
of the Great War. The reigning monarch was the grandson of Queen
Victoria, but in London’s East End, a district well known for its poverty
and crime, conditions were reminiscent of some of those described by
Charles Dickens. This account tells how a boy, born to a poor East End
family, came to preach the Gospel to thousands of people in Britain
and overseas.

Early in the 1960s, a young Fellowship leader, ordained in the Anglican
Church, saw a vision of a red leaved tree ‘like a maple in Autumn’. The
leaves fell into a glowing heap which, after burning for a time, was caught
up by the wind into a canopy over the globe. The leaves then began to
fall and settle all over the globe. This was interpreted to mean that the
Fellowship people were going to be allowed to burn together in love and
then be scattered over the earth by the wind of the Spirit. This story tells
of the vital part played by G.W. North in fulfilling this mission.

‘This book has captured the life and times of an extraordinary man of
God; a spiritual father to many believers. In days of various winds of
doctrine and moral decline some will wonder whether a deeper walk
with God is at all possible. This man’s life and teaching were testimony
to the fact that this is obtainable through simple faith. His was a truly