t that he has still enabled you to bear me
upon your heart in his presence. All is well with me, dear
brother. Your petitions have been heard and answered; I am happy
and at peace. The Lord has indeed manifested his tender care of
and his great love towards me in Jesus, in inclining my heart
cheerfully to lay _all_ I have hitherto called my own at his
feet. It is a high privilege.

I write in haste to ask you, as we have _now_ one purse, to
receive the money at a bank in Bristol. I will direct it to be
sent in my name, to be delivered into your hands, etc.

As this whole circumstance is related only for the profit of the reader,
and as I knew that the sister still had my letters on the subject in her
possession, I wrote to her, requesting her to send them to me, at the
time when I published the last account about the Orphan Houses, etc.,
and extracts of them were given in the last Report, in so far as they
might refer to the subject or tend to edification. These extracts are
here reprinted. My reply to the above was this:--

BRISTOL, DEC. 6, 1842.

MY DEAR SISTER:

Your letter found me in peace, and did not in the least surprise
me. Dealing with God is a reality. Saints have power with him
through Jesus. It is now forty-two days since you first
mentioned this matter to me. I cannot but admire the wisdom of
God and his love to you in allowing me to speak to you as I did
[_i. e._ offering her to have one purse with me, when I thought
she had no earthly possessions at all], that thus this great
privilege might be bestowed on you to give up this little sum
for him. Since that hour I have daily prayed for you, and often
thrice or more in the course of the day, that the Lord would
make you so happy in himself, and help you with such faith to
lay hold on all which he has given you in Jesus, that you might
be constrained by love cheerfully to lay down this little sum at
his feet. Thus I prayed again at six o'clock this morning for
you. Nor have I had the least doubt from the commencement that
the Lord did hear my prayer; yea, so fully have I been assured
that I had the petition, that again and again I have thanked him
that he had answered my prayer, before I saw you eighteen days
since, and before your letter came this morning. Moreover, I
have been fully assu