the other for the School fund. (The latter sovereign was
needed today towards the payment of the teachers in the Day-schools.)
Thus we had all that was needed today for the Orphans. This evening I
found a sixpence in the box in my room.

March 17, Monday. The sixpence which I took out of the box in my room on
Saturday evening was all there was in hand, when yesterday came in the
following donations:

A. A. 1l. 2s. 4 1/2 d., anonymously 6d., ditto 2s. 6d. When this morning
I had the bag sent from the Orphan-Houses, I found that the amount
needed for house-keeping was 2l. 5s.; but there was only 1l. 5s. 10 1/2
d. in hand. Immediately after, before the bag was fetched, one of my
fellow-labourers sent me 1l. for the Orphans, so that we had enough for
today, and 10 1/2 d. over. When now only 10 1/2 d. remained, I received
from Swansea a letter containing a franc and a half, with the words
"Jehovah Jireh."

March 18. "Jehovah Jireh" (i.e. the Lord will provide) has been again
verified in our experience. 10 1/2 d. remained in hand, and the need of
this day was 6l. 3s. But the Lord knew what we should need today, and he
helped accordingly. I opened the box in my room, and found a ten-pound
note in it. Thus we have more than is needed for the present moment.

March 19. Yesterday afternoon I had to pay out 3l. more, for one of the
apprentices. Thus the expenses of yesterday were altogether 9l. 3s. How
kind therefore of the Lord to have put it into the heart of the donor of
the ten-pound note to give that money just then. And now we had again
only 17s. 10 1/2 d. left towards the need of today, which is 3l. 5s. But
our most faithful Lord has been again mindful of us at this time also.
For there came in yesterday from a lady at Sheffield 1l., by sale of
Reports 8d., by the profit from the sale of ladies' bags 15s., and by
three donations from Bristol donors 12s. Thus there is again all we need
for today, and 6 1/2d. left. Immediately after I had written this in my
journal, the Lord began to increase again "the handful of meal in the
barrel." I received from Barnstaple 5s.

March 20. Yesterday morning, when I was going to send off the money to
the Orphan-Houses, I found 2s. 6d. in the letter bag, slipped in
anonymously. I found also 1l. 5s. in the boxes at my house. Thus we have
1l. 13s. 0 1/2 d. for the necessities of today, which I find is
sufficient.

March 21. All the money being spent, the boxes in the Orphan-Houses were