was pleased to try it more fully.

The next Wednesday I went to Exmouth, our money having then again been
reduced to about nine shillings. I asked the Lord on Thursday, when at
Exmouth, to be pleased to give me some money. On Friday morning, about
eight o'clock, whilst in prayer, I was particularly led to ask again for
money; and before I rose from my knees I had the fullest assurance, that
we should have the answer that very day. About nine o'clock I left the
brother with whom I was staying, and he gave me half a sovereign, saying,
"Take this for the expenses connected with your coming to us." I did not
expect to have my expenses paid, but I saw the Lord's fatherly hand in
sending me this money within one hour after my asking Him for some. But
even then I was so fully assured that the Lord would send more that very
day, or had done so already, that, when I came home about twelve o'clock,
I asked my wife whether she had received any letters. She told me she had
received one the day before from a brother in Exeter, with three
sovereigns. Thus even my prayer on the preceding day had been answered.
The next day one of the brethren came and brought me L4., which was due to
me of my former salary, but which I could never have expected, as I did
not even know that this sum was due to me. Thus I received, within thirty
hours, in answer to prayer, L7. 10s.

In the commencement of December I went to Collumpton, where I preached
several times, and likewise in a neighbouring village. In driving home
from the village late at night, our driver lost his way. As soon as we
found out our mistake, being then near a house, it struck me that the hand
of God was in this matter; and having awakened the people of the house, I
offered a man something if he would be kind enough to bring us into the
right road. I now walked with the man before the gig, and conversed with
him about the things of God, and soon found out that he was an awful
backslider. May God, in mercy, bless the word spoken to him, and may we
learn from this circumstance, that we have to ask on such occasions, why
the Lord has allowed such and such things to happen to us.--Since the
publication of the first edition, one day, about eight years after this
circumstance had happened, the individual who drove me that night
introduced himself to me as a believer, and told me that on that evening
he received his first impressions under the preaching of the Word. The
missing of the rig