special
blessing. God has sent us a special blessing in a donation of

Five Hundred Pounds.

His instrument in this gift is a lady, who did not wish her name
mentioned, but Mr. Evans, the gentleman to whose discretion the
giving or holding the donation was left, quite agreed with me that
her name should be published. Her name is Miss Terry.--I am, dear
madam, yours truly, W. H. LEVY.

The following letter is from the Mr. Evans alluded to:

_17th October 1860._

MADAM--I think it will give you pleasure to be informed that,
having L500 placed in my hands yesterday for a Blind Institution, I
searched out the one with which you were said to be connected.
After going round Euston Square twice, calling at the wrong places,
I at last traced it to the Euston Road, where I saw the Report and
Mr. Levy. When I told him my object he literally cried for joy, and
this I think will be interesting also to you to know. The lady who
gives this handsome donation is Miss Mercy E. Terry of Odiham,
Hants, through her bankers, Messrs. Child and Co. I need not say,
rejoicing as I do in such charitable gifts, that it affords me very
considerable pleasure in being the bearer of this intelligence to
you, although a stranger, as greatly interested in the aforesaid
Institution. The money has this day been paid to Messrs. Williams
and Co. on account of the Society.--I am, madam, yours very
obedly., E. P. EVANS.

Bessie, in acknowledging the letter, asks if the donation is in response
to an appeal for help. Mr. Evans replies: "Thanks are due to Miss Terry
alone, but chiefly to a watchful Providence who so appropriately guided
her charity to your Institution in need of it. Your individual
application had no influence in the matter; for, in fact, applications
of that kind are so numerous that it is not my practice to give them
attention. I did not know that you had written until you told me; but
now I find that you did so, because your letter lies amongst others put
aside.

"Your wishes and prayers are, however, answered in another way, and
that is very satisfactory."

These donations gladdened Bessie's heart, and were frequently referred
to as coming at a time when heavy pecuniary anxiety was pressing upon
her. She had applied this year to Mr. Tatton of Manchester, but he
replied that it would be imp