titute
children like me. I am sure I shall often look back with
pleasure and regret to the time I was in that happy home;--with
pleasure that I lived there, and regret that I left it. Begging
you to accept my grateful thanks, and with my kind love to Mr.
L----, Mr. B----, Mr. W----, and Mr. S----,

I am, dear sir,
Yours gratefully,
* * * *

The Christian reader, I doubt not, in perusing such letters, will with
us thank God for condescending to give such blessing, such abundant
blessing, to our labors.

Feb. 14, 1860. Two pounds ten shillings sixpence, with the following
letter:--

MY DEAR BROTHER IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST:

Will you please to accept an order for two pounds ten shillings
sixpence by the same post, for the dear orphans under your care?
The history of this small sum is as follows. About seven and a
half years ago your Narrative was put into my hands, which the
Lord very greatly blessed to my soul. Six years and eleven
months ago I was enabled to cast myself, my wife and family,
upon the Lord, and look to _Him alone_ for the supply of our
temporal necessities while laboring in his glorious cause. From
that time to the present we have had no claims upon any person
for a single penny; nor have we made known our wants to any, or
applied to any person for help, but to our heavenly Father
alone; and he has supplied our need and not suffered us to be
confounded, blessed be his name! My dear wife, as well as
myself, from the very first had a strong desire to help you a
_little_ in your blessed work of love and labor of faith; but,
for a long time, owing to the continued ill-health of my wife,
and the growing expenses of our family, we never seemed to have
any money to spare; so all we did was to _wish, desire_, and
_talk about it_, and say how happy we should be if the Lord
would enable us to do so. At length, we both felt we were acting
wrong, and on the eighth of August last we solemnly decided we
would give the Lord back a tenth of the money he was pleased to
send us, though at that time we were very poor, I may add in
deeper poverty than we had ever been before; yet, under those
circumstances, we were enabled in the strength of the Lord to
come to the above decision and act up to it that very morning;
and the peace and