Be encouraged by this! Go for
yourself, with all your temporal and spiritual wants, to the Lord. Bring
also the necessities of your friends and relatives to the Lord. Only
make the trial, and you will perceive how able and willing He is to help
you. Should you, however, not at once, obtain answers to your prayers,
be not discouraged; but continue patiently, believingly, perseveringly
to wait upon God: and as assuredly as that, which you ask, would be for
your real good, and therefore for the honour of the Lord; and as
assuredly as you ask it solely on the ground of the worthiness of our
Lord Jesus, so assuredly you will at last obtain the blessing. I myself
have had to wait upon God concerning certain matters for years, before I
obtained answers to my prayers; but at last they came. At this very
time, I have still to renew my requests daily before God, respecting a
certain blessing for which I have besought Him for eleven years and a
half, and which I have as yet obtained only in part, but concerning
which I have no doubt that the full blessing will be granted in the end.
So also, when I was led to build the New Orphan-House, and waited upon
the Lord for means for it, it took two years and three months, whilst
day by day I brought this matter before Him, before I received the full
answer.--But to return to my journal. This donation of 50l. from
Melbourne, refreshed my spirit greatly, and quickened me yet further to
prayer.--On the same day I received from Sheffield 5l., and from
Tottenham 10l.

Oct. 31. Thirteen more Orphans have been applied for during this month.

Nov. 3. This evening I received a check for 300l. for the Building Fund.
-- I am continually looking out for help, and am sustained in waiting
upon God, and in being enabled daily, and generally several times every
day, to bring the matter about the Building Fund before Him. I know that
God hears me, on the ground of the worthiness of the Lord Jesus, and
that at last He will give me the full amount needed for accomplishing
this work. How the means are to come, I know not; but I know that God is
almighty, that the hearts of all are in His hands, and that, if He
pleaseth to influence persons, they will send help. In this donation of
300l., received this evening, I have seen afresh, how easily God can
send means. The donor, who sent it, was not even known to me by name
this day month; but, on Oct. 12th, he sent me 200l. for the Orphans, and
now 300l. for the B