d expect them daily to be called for. My clothes also are now
worse than any I ever wore, and I have also but one suit. May 6. I have
now been for some years, and especially these last few months, more or
less thinking and praying respecting publishing a short account of the
Lord's dealings with me. Today I have at last settled to do so, and have
begun to write.

May 16. For these several weeks our income has been little; and though I
had prayed many times that the Lord would enable us to put by the taxes,
yet the prayer remained unanswered. In the midst of it all, my comfort was
that the Lord would send help by the time it would be needed. One thing
particularly has been a trial to us of late, far more than our own
temporal circumstances, which is, that we have scarcely in any measure
been able to relieve the distress among the poor saints. Today, the Lord
at last, after I had many times prayed to Him for these weeks past,
answered my prayers, there being 7l. 12s. 0 1/4d. given to me as my part
of the free-will offerings through the boxes, two 5l. notes having been
put in yesterday, one for brother Craik and one for me. Thus the Lord has
again delivered us, and answered our prayers, and that not one single hour
too late; for the taxes have not as yet been called for. May He fill my
heart with gratitude for this fresh deliverance, and may He be pleased to
enable me more and more to trust in Him, and to wait patiently for His
help! May He also be pleased to teach me more and more the meaning of that
word, with reference to my own circumstances:--"Mine hour is not yet came."

A third statement, containing the announcement of the opening of the
Orphan-House for destitute female children, and a proposal for the
establishment of an Infant Orphan-House, was on May 18th, 1836, sent to
the press, and is here reprinted.

Opening of the Orphan-House for Destitute Female Children, established in
Bristol, in connexion with the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home
and Abroad; and Proposal for the Establishment of an Infant-Orphan-House.

In a previous printed account, a statement has been given of the success
with which the Lord has been pleased to crown the prayers of His servant,
respecting the establishment of an Orphan-House in this city. The subject
of my prayer was, that He would graciously provide a house, either as a
loan, or as a gift, or that some one might be led to pay the rent for one;
further, that He would give