ney was given out; it was a season of rich abundance,
for there came in (including the 25l. last mentioned) about 140l. Now,
however, this evening, after all the expenses of the day had been met,
there was nothing remaining. But admire with me, dear reader, the
goodness of the Lord! This very evening He has again kindly supplied us
with means for the commencement of another week. The boxes at the
Orphan-Houses were opened (our need leading us to do so) in winch was
found 10l. 16s., one of them containing a ten pound note. Is it not,
dear reader, a precious thing to trust in the Lord? Are not ten pounds,
thus received out of the hands of our Heavenly Father,
as the result of faith in God, most precious? Will not
you also seek to trust in Him, and depend on Him alone in all your
everyday's concerns, and in all spiritual matters too? If you have not
done so, do make but trial of the preciousness of this way, and you will
see how pleasant and sweet it is; and if you have done so in a measure,
do so yet more and more, and you will never have cause to regret it.
But, perhaps, you are not a believer; if so, you cannot trust in God,
and go in all circumstances to Him, as to your Father, except you are
first reconciled to him through our Lord Jesus. What you have then to do
is, to learn that you are a lost, ruined, guilty sinner, deserving
nothing but punishment. But, at the same time, you have to remember that
God, in the greatness of His love to sinners, sent His own dear Son,
that He, in their room and stead, might bear the punishment due to them,
make an atonement for their sins, and fulfil the law of God in their
stead, in order that every one, who believes on Him, might obtain the
forgiveness of his sins, and be reckoned righteous before God. If you
believe in the Lord Jesus, i.e., if you receive Him as the one whom God
has declared Him to be, even the Son of God (as to His person), and the
Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world (as to His work), and
if you rest upon Him, trust in Him for the salvation of your soul, then
all your sins shall be forgiven. Though you have grown old in sin,
though your sins have been very many and very grievous, yet the blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin. Do but believe, and you shall be
saved. And when thus you are reconciled to God, through faith in His
dear Son, walk before Him as an obedient child, seek in child-like
simplicity to go to God for every thing, and do really