we have had to be content with something like
this: "Lord, it is said that there is much money in hand, whereby some
who would otherwise help us, it may be, are kept from doing so; now,
Lord, do Thou nevertheless, as the work is Thine, lay our need, the real
state of things, on the hearts of Thy children, that they may help us."
Thus it was during my service in Germany in the summer of 1845 also. My
fellow-labourers in Bristol and my dear wife and I in Stuttgart, poured
out our hearts before the Lord, seeking His help upon the work, and
asking Him also for means, and He did not despise our cries. There came
in, during the twelve weeks that I was away, for the Orphans alone,
200l. 5s, 5 1/2 d. This, together with what was in hand when I left, and
with come money that at the end of my stay in Germany (when I saw that I
should scarcely need one half of the 500l.) I could order to be drawn
out of my bankers' hands in Bristol, richly supplied all the need,
during my absence. But the labourers were repeatedly in straits, and
several times the last money was gone; but the Lord refreshed their
hearts by seasonable help.--Of the 500l. given for the service in
Germany, and for the printing of tracts, there remained 311l. 18s, 1 1/2
d., of which I took for the Orphans 161l. 18s. 1 1/2 d., and for the
other objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution 150l.

Jan. 17, 1846. From the day of my return to Bristol, on Oct. 11, up to
this day, there has been no difficulty at all with regard to means. The
many donations which have come in, together with what came to the
Orphan-Fund from the surplus of the sum given for the work in Germany,
enabled me, without any difficulty, to meet all the expenses, though
they were many and great. Of the donations which came in during this
period I only refer to the following:

On Nov. 19th heft Bristol to labour for a little while at Sunderland. I
had but little money to leave with my dear wife for the work; but my
path was plain to go, and therefore my hope was in God, as to the work
in Bristol during the meantime, being assured that He would care for it.
And thus it was. Rich supplies were granted by Him. On the very next
day, after my departure, Nov. 20th, the following anonymous letter was
left at my house, containing six five-pound notes and two sovereigns.

"My dear Brother in the Lord,

"About six or eight weeks since, anticipating soon a remittance by a
bill, which would become available