400l., several of 500l., some of from 600l.
to 900l., four of 1,000l., two of 2,000l., and
one of 2,050l., but never had more than this given to me at one time;
yet I have expected more than 2,050l. in one donation, and, accordingly,
it has pleased the Lord to give me 3,000l. this evening. I now write
again that I expect far larger sums still, in order that it may be yet
more and more manifest, that there is no happier, no easier, and no
better way for obtaining pecuniary means for the work of the Lord, than
the one in which I have been led." This, you perceive, dear Reader, was
written more than two years ago. Since then I have again received many
considerable donations, besides thousands of pounds in smaller sums. And
now the largest donation of 3,000l., was surpassed by the one of 8,100l.
Have I then been boasting in God in vain? Is it not manifest that it is
most precious, in every way, to depend upon God? Do I serve God for
nought? Is it not obvious that the principles on which I labour, are not
only applicable to the work of God on a small scale, but also, as I have
so many times affirmed during the past nineteen years, for the most
extensive operations for God? I delight to dwell upon this, if, by any
means, some of my beloved fellow believers might be allured to put their
whole trust in God for every thing; and if, by any means, some
unbelievers thereby might be made to see that God is verily the living
God now as ever, and might be stirred up to seek to be reconciled to Him
by putting their trust in the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
thus find in God a friend for time and eternity.

Feb. 19. Saturday Evening. The Lord has been pleased to send in the
means as sparingly this month, as He was pleased to send them in
abundantly during the last. But this is for the trial of my faith and
patience. While, however, these graces are exercised by the Lord, He
kindly sustains both. With unshaken confidence and joyful anticipation
am I, by the help of God, enabled to go forward day by day, looking on
to the day when I shall have the whole amount requisite for this object,
just as it was with reference to the building of the New Orphan House on
Ashley Down. I know that I shall not be confounded; for I trust in God,
and for the honour of His name proposed the building of this second
Orphan House. Yet my soul longs, to be able to declare to the Church of
Christ at large, that I have obtained an answer to this my oft r