SIRES FOR MORE ENLARGED USEFULNESS GRATIFIED--A LARGE
DONATION ANTICIPATED AND RECEIVED--REVIEW OF
1851--PERSONAL EXPERIENCE--BUILDING FUND FOR THE SECOND
NEW ORPHAN HOUSE--DOUBT RESISTED--WAITING ON GOD NOT
IN VAIN--REVIEW OF 1852 389

CHAPTER XXII.

Reaping in Joy.

1852-1854.

EXPECTING GREAT THINGS FROM GOD--MUNIFICENT
DONATION--INCREASING USEFULNESS OF THE SCRIPTURAL
KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTION--ACCESS TO GOD THROUGH FAITH IN
CHRIST--A VOICE FROM MOUNT LEBANON--BENEFIT OF WAITING
GOD'S TIME--CAREFUL STEWARDSHIP--FAITH, THE ONLY
RELIANCE--"THIS POOR WIDOW HATH CAST IN MORE THAN THEY
ALL"--GREATER ACHIEVEMENTS OF FAITH ANTICIPATED--COUNSEL
TO TRACT DISTRIBUTORS--A NEW AND SEVERE TRIAL OF FAITH 402

CHAPTER XXIII.

Three Years of Prosperity.

1854-1857.

THE SITE SELECTED--SIX THOUSAND ORPHANS IN PRISON--HOW TO
ASK FOR DAILY BREAD--REVIEW OF TWENTY-FOUR YEARS--"TAKE
NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW"--INSURANCE AGAINST BAD DEBTS 426

CHAPTER XXIV.

Conclusion.

1857-1860.

THE HOUSE FOR FOUR HUNDRED OPENED--PRAYER MORE THAN
ANSWERED--THE RESORT IN TROUBLE--AN OUTPOURING OF THE
SPIRIT ON THE ORPHANS--LAND FOR A NEW BUILDING
PURCHASED--"BUT ONE LIFE TO SPEND FOR GOD"--"SCATTERING,
YET INCREASING"--A MEMORABLE YEAR--THE GERM OF THE IRISH
REVIVAL--LETTER FROM AN ORPHAN--THE FRUIT OF SIX MONTHS'
PRAYER--THE RESULTS OF THE WORK--REVIVAL AMONG
THE ORPHANS 446

APPENDIX 473

INTRODUCTION.

What is meant by the prayer of faith? is a question which is beginning
to arrest, in an unusual degree, the attention of Christians. What is
the significance of the passages both in the New Testament and the Old
which refer to it? What is the limit within which they may be safely
received as a ground of practical reliance? Were these promises limited
to prophetical or apostolical times; or have they been left as a legacy
to all believers until the end shall come?

Somehow or other, these questions are seldom discussed either from the
pulpit or the press. I do not remember to have heard any of them
distinctly treated of in a sermon. I do not know of any work in which
this subject is either theoretically explained or practically enforced.
It really seems as if this portion of Revelation was, by