ek to cherish in your children early the habit of
being interested about the work of God and about cases of need and
distress, and use them too at suitable times, and under suitable
circumstances, as your almoners, and you will reap fruit from doing so.

Oct. 10. From Surrey 5s. and a gold chain.--From a shepherd in
Australia, who had read my Narrative while tending his flock, 12s.--
See how the lady near London sends her gold chain, and the shepherd in
Australia his 12s.--Thus the Lord, in the greatest variety of ways
supplies me with means, for the greater part through entire strangers.
Thus I received one hundred pounds after another, anonymously, through
London bankers, until a particular circumstance made known to me the
name of the kind Christian donor, whom I have seen but once years ago,
and who had, at the same time, sent me considerable donations with his
name, whilst his bankers, anonymously, sent his still larger donations
of many hundred pounds. I dwell upon this fact, that the reader may be
led to own increasingly the hand of God in this work; for I desire that
He may be honoured, that His hand may be recognised, and that attention
may be drawn to Him, and not to me. It gives me no joy but sorrow, if
persons admire me, in connexion with this work, as if I did anything
great; as if I acted in a remarkable way. What is it that I do? I simply
desire, through this work, to direct the attention of those who need it
to the precious truth, that God is unchangeably the same, and that those
who take Him at His word, as given to us in the Holy Scriptures, will
find how unspeakably blessed it is, even for this life, to do so. To
bring back to the written word of God those of His children, who
practically have departed from it, and to sound again and again in the
ears and consciences of the unbeliever that there is verily a living God
who listens to the prayers of those who put their trust in Him, is, as I
have often before stated, the great end of this work.

Oct. 11. To day I received, unsolicited, a kind and useful present of
flannel and calico, to the amount of 10l., from the ladies constituting
the Bristol Dorcas Society.

Oct. 18. "Articles forwarded by friends at a distance," an anonymous but
most valuable donation, the particulars of which I am not at liberty to
state.--The kind unknown donor or donors should, however, know, that
very many pounds have been realized through the sale of these articles,
and tha