rents need to be provided for, and I
desire soon to be able to give again some money to the labourers in the
Orphan-Houses for their own personal necessities.

March 4, Besides the 32l. 7s. 1d. that had come in on the 15th and 16th
of Feb., there came in up to this day 38l. 17s. 1d., so that there was
not any difficulty to meet all the demands. After I had met the expenses
for housekeeping yesterday, all our means were again gone, and there was
therefore nothing in hand towards the expenses of today. But the Lord
helped us again; for two five-pound notes were found in one of the boxes
at my house, whereby I am able to meet the need of this day, which is
3l.

Dear Reader! does your heart admire the hand of God in these instances?
Does your heart praise the Lord for His goodness to us? Does it, or does
it not? If not, then I beseech you to lay aside this account of His
dealings with us, and fall on your knees, and ask God to have mercy upon
you, and to soften your heart, that you may be sensible of His goodness
to us. Surely if you can read this account of His goodness, and it makes
no impression upon you, it is a sign that your heart is not in a right
state before God. I do not expect that all the readers will, as much as
I do, by the grace of God, see the hand of God in all these matters,
though I could wish that they did so, even a thousand times more than I
do; but yet all should adore God for His great goodness to us, and
should remember that what He does for us, in answering our poor
sin-mixed petitions, for the sake of His dear Son, He is willing to do
for them also.--Particularly notice, that the help never comes too
late. We may be poor, yea, very poor; yet the help comes at the right
time. We may have to wait upon the Lord, yea, even a long time; but at
last He helps. It may seem as if the Lord had forgotten us, by allowing
us to be poor, and very poor, and that week after week; but at last He
helps abundantly, and shows that only for the trial of our faith, both
for our own benefit and the benefit of those who might hear of His
dealings with us, has He allowed us to call so long upon Him. --By the
grace of God my heart is not troubled now, whether there be much or
little in hand. I am sure, that, in the best time and way, God will send
help; and thus it is not only with reference to temporal supplies, but
also as it regards other things that we may need, or when we may be in
peculiar difficulties in other resp