d will take us at our word.
If we say we trust in Him, He will try whether we really do so, or only
profess to do so; and if indeed we trust in Him, we are satisfied to
stand with Him alone.

2. The individual who desires to go this way must be willing to be rich
or poor, as the Lord pleases. He must be willing to know what it is to
have an abundance or scarcely anything. He must be willing to leave this
world without any possessions.

3. He must be willing to take the money in God's way, not merely in
large sums but in small.--Again and again have I had a single
shilling given or sent to me. To have refused such tokens of Christian
love, would have been ungracious.

4. He must be willing to live as the Lord's steward.--If any one
were to begin this way of living, and did not communicate out of that
which the Lord gives to him, but hoard it up; or, if he would live up to
his income, as it is called, then the Lord, who influences the hearts of
His children, to help him with means, would soon cause those channels to
be dried up. How it came that my already good income still more
increased, so as to come to what it is, has been stated in the early
part of this volume; it was when I determined that, by God's help, His
poor and His work should more than ever partake of my means. From that
time the Lord was pleased more and more to intrust me with means for my
own purse. I request the reader carefully to read over once more all I
have said in the first volume of this Narrative, third part, from page
575 to 604, on Matthew 6, 19-21, on Matthew 6, 33, and on
"Stewardship."

Various reasons might have kept me from publishing these accounts; but I
have for my object in writing, the glory of God, and therefore delight
in thus showing what a loving master I serve, and how bountifully He
supplies my necessities; and I write for the comfort and encouragement
of my fellow believers, that they may be led to trust in God more and
more, and therefore I feel it due to them to state, how, even with
regard to this life, I am amply provided for, though that is not what I
seek after.

Further account respecting the intended Orphan Houses for Seven Hundred
Poor Children, bereaved of both parents by death, from May 26, 1855, to
May 26, 1856.

On May 20, 1855, I had in hand for this object 23,059l. 17s. 8 1/4 d., as
stated in the last chapter on this subject. I now relate how the Lord
was pleased to supply me further with means, but must