ht to be engaged in this way, and was
led to ask the Lord to give me some further encouragement. Soon after were
sent by a brother two pieces of print, the one seven and the other 23 3/4
yards, 6 3/4 yards of calico, four pieces of lining, about four yards
altogether, a sheet, and a yard measure. This evening another brother
brought a clothes' horse, three frocks, four pinafores, six handkerchiefs,
three counterpanes, one blanket, two pewter salt cellars, six tin cups,
and six metal tea spoons; he also brought 3s. 6d. given to him by three
different individuals. At the same time he told me that it had been put
into the heart of an individual to send tomorrow 100l.

December 18. This afternoon the same brother brought from a sister, a
counterpane, a flat iron stand, eight cups, and saucers, a sugar basin, a
milk jug, a tea cup, 16 thimbles, five knives and forks, six dessert
spoons, 12 tea spoons, four combs, and two little graters; from another
friend a flat iron and a cup and saucer. At the same time he brought the
100l. above referred to. [Since the publication of the second edition it
has pleased the Lord to take to Himself the donor of this 100l., and I
therefore give in this present edition some further account of the
donation and the donor, as the particulars respecting both, with God's
blessing, may tend to edification. Indeed I confess that I am delighted to
be at liberty, in consequence of the death of the donor, to give the
following short narrative, which, during her lifetime, I should not have
considered it wise to publish. A. L., the donor, was known to me almost
from the beginning of my coming to Bristol in 1832. She earned her bread
by needlework, by which she gained from 2s. to 5s. per week; the average,
I suppose, was not more than about 3s. 6d., as she was weak in body. But
this dear, humble sister was content with her small earnings, and I do not
remember ever to have heard her utter a word of complaint on account of
earning so little. Some time, before I had been led to establish an
Orphan-House, her father had died, through which event she had come
into the possession of 480l., which sum had been left to her (and the
same amount to her brother and two sisters) by her grandmother, but of
which her father had had the interest during his lifetime. The father,
who had been much given to drinking, died in debt,
which debts the children wished to pay; but the rest, besides
A. L., did not like to pay the fu