nses for
the Orphans alone are about Ten Pounds daily, and those for the other
parts of the work are also about Ten Pounds daily, so that I need to
receive after the rate of 20l. a day, in order to go on with the work;
but during these forty-nine days there has been only one single day that
I have received about 20l., and for the greater part of the time only a
few pounds daily, and sometimes even only a few shillings. But what was
to be done under these circumstances? I gave myself to prayer. God, whom
I have now been enabled to make my refuge, and my only refuge for more
than twenty years, I have besought day by day. And when now day by day I
still have received only small sums, and sometimes nothing or scarcely
anything at all: the only effect that it has had upon me has been, to
pray the more earnestly. My confidence in God is not at all shaken. I
have never had a thought that He would not help me; nor have I even once
been allowed to look upon these seven weeks in any other way than that
the Lord, for the trial of my faith, has ordered it thus that only so
little should come in. I am sure that, when He has tried me
sufficiently, there will come in again larger sums. In the mean time,
how good has the Lord been, not only to have given all I have needed,
but I have even now money in hand! And as to our stores in the New
Orphan-House, they are as full as usual. We have at least 150 sacks of
potatoes in the house, 20 sacks of flour, 33 barrels of oatmeal, each
containing about 200 lbs., about 300 pairs of new shoes (besides about
900 pairs in use), about ten tons of coal, a large quantity of soap and
rice; and so all other parts of the stores in proportion. Indeed while
there has been little coming in, I have just ordered articles in the
wholesale way as formerly, when our income was perhaps four or five
times as much during the same period. My judgment is, that it will now
soon please the Lord again to send in larger sums, as He has been
pleased to exercise my faith for some time in this way. Let me see the
result!

Nov. 28. This morning the Lord has given me a fresh proof, that I had
not waited on Him in vain, and that my confidence in Him, as recorded
last evening, has not been confounded. I received early this morning a
donation of 200l., of which I took one half for the Orphans and the
other half for the other objects.

Nov. 30. Evening. I am brought to the close of another month. Great have
been the expenses, a