allowed to obtain future good out of present
expending? (Luke xvi. 9)' That when ye fail, etc.' I enclose a check
for 50l., of which I should wish 25l. to be used for the New
Orphan-House, that which you propose to build.

Yours, dear Sir,

Ever faithfully,

* * * * *"

The other 25l. being left to me, to be disposed of as I thought well, I
divided equally between the five objects of the Scriptural Knowledge
Institution for Home and Abroad.

By the same post I received also a donation of 10s., with the following
letter.

* * * *, Oct. 27, 1851.

"Dear Mr. Mueller,

I enclose you 10s. worth of postages, as a token of gratitude to the
Lord. I had 2l. due to me, and the party told me he would not pay it,
except I summoned him. I consulted the Scripture, and found, as a
Christian, I must not do that; so I put the case into the hand of the
'wonderful counsellor,' and told the Lord, if He would be pleased to
give me the 2l., I would give Him back half of it. Not long after I had
a message from the party, to say if I would fetch it, I should have the
2l.; so I went, and he paid me without an unpleasant word. I have sent
you one half of the pound (the other half I have designed for another
purpose). If you need it, you will please to take it for your own
personal use; if it is not needed any other way, I should like the
privilege of having a stone in the intended Orphan-House, &c."

I took this 10s. for the Building Fund. The donor is a poor working man.
-- This afternoon I received 50l. more from the neighbourhood of
London, with these words: "For the missionaries, and where else most
needed." I took, therefore, 25l. of it for missions, and the other 25l.
for the Building Fund.

Thus the Lord has been pleased this day to refresh my heart greatly in
sending these donations, and has given again a manifest proof that
yesterday I did not wait upon Him in vain. But I look out for more
abundant help, and for larger sums. I cannot help noticing here, that
this afternoon the Lord also refreshed my spirit through a donation of 6
pairs of new shoes, which a young man (whom about twelve years ago I
received as a very destitute Orphan, and who about five years ago was
apprenticed to a shoemaker, and who has lately finished his
apprenticeship), brought me for the Orphans, as a small token of his
gratitude, as he said. He had himself made the shoes, having bought the
leather with the little sums which he had earned in work