ects. When boys need to be
apprenticed, or situations have to be found for the girls, and there are
difficulties in the way, as we never send them out, except to believing
masters and mistresses, my soul is yet at peace, because I betake myself
to my Heavenly Father. When there have been infectious diseases in the
Orphan-Houses, whereby, looking at it naturally, many children might be
taken away through death, my soul is at peace, because I cast this
burden upon the Lord, and He sustains me. When one or the other of my
fellow-labourers have left the work, and I needed their place supplied,
and knew of no suitable persons, I have been looking to God for help,
and that has kept my heart in peace, though this is no small difficulty,
as not only can no hirelings be engaged in this work, but also, in case,
the individual is a true child of God, there are yet so many things to
be considered as to fitness and call for the work. When all kinds of
lying reports have been spread about the work and about myself in
connexion with it (though they have been very much less than might have
been expected), I have committed my case to the Lord; and such things,
instead of casting me down, often have greatly cheered me, because they
have been a fresh proof to me, that God is at work, and that, therefore,
the devil is angry, and stirs up these lies. When I have had for months
to leave the work, as in the year 1838, for about four months, in
1843-4, for seven months, and in 1845, for three months, being called to
labour on the Continent, or being ill, as in 1838, my heart has been in
perfect peace, committing all the concerns of the whole Institution into
the hand of God, considering that it was not my work but His, and that,
therefore, I might be without carefulness about it. I seek to believe
more and more what God says about Himself in His holy word, and it is
this which gives this rest and peace to my heart, not only with
reference to all the various objects of the Scriptural Knowledge
Institution for Home and Abroad, but also about my own body and soul, my
dear wife and child, my other dear relations, the temporal supplies for
myself and family, my service in the Church in which I labour, now
consisting of more than 700 believers, and the state of the Church of
Christ at large.

March 8, Saturday. 11l. 17s. 1 3/4 d. more has come in since March 4th.
Thus I have been able fully to meet all the expenses during this week,
but now hare aga