et I want still many hundred pounds to meet all the
heavy expenses, connected with fitting up and furnishing so large a
building, levelling the ground, making a road through the ground,
pitching three large playgrounds, &c. Under these circumstances I
received this morning anonymously 50l. for the Orphan-House, with Psalm
cxvi. and the request not to notice the post-mark. As I understood the
donor to intend this donation for the Building Fund, I took it for
that.

Nov. 9. Today the Lord has helped still more abundantly. I have received
a donation of One Thousand Pounds, to be used for the Building Fund and
the present necessities of the work generally, as the various objects of
the Institution might require. Of this donation I took, therefore, 600l.
for the Building Fund, 100l. for the present necessities of the Orphans,
200l. for missionary purposes, and 100l. for the circulation of Bibles
and Tracts, and for the various Day Schools, the Sunday School, and the
Adult School of the Institution. All these manifestations of the
Lord's abundant help do not in the least surprise me. I expect help
from Him. I know that He listens to my supplications, and that, for the
sake of the Lord Jesus, He is willing to help me yet more and more, to
the confounding of Satan and to the putting to shame of unbelief.

Nov. 10. Received a bank order for 5l. from the neighbourhood of
Tavistock, which, being left to my disposal, I took for the Building
Fund.

Nov. 15. From the neighbourhood of Launceston 20l.

Dec. 22. Received 100l. This sum being left to my disposal, I took it
for the Building Fund.

Jan. 2, 1849. Received from Devonshire 10l., with these words: "A
moiety of the first fruits of interest on Bristol Dock Shares from
the Town Council of Bristol, towards the New
Orphan Building." Thus even the fact, of Bristol being made a free port,
was used by the Lord as a means to supply me with this sum.

Jan. 17. The time is now drawing near, when further steps are to be
taken to fit up and furnish the house, as more than two-thirds of the
rooms are all but ready. Under these circumstances I have prayed the
more earnestly, day by day, that the Lord would be pleased to give me
the means which are yet needed; and as my heart has been assured from
the beginning, and all through these three years and two months, since I
first began to pray about this subject, that God would in every way help
me in this work, so I have also been particul