as to me to see the Lord thus
dishonoured, and my painful service for seven months during the previous
year, to all appearance, entirely frustrated. The Lord, however, laid
these brethren and sisters on my heart in prayer, so that I was day by
day enabled to bring them before God, and also to resolve, that, as soon
as my path was made plain, I would go again to Stuttgart for a season.

May 3, 1845. I have seen it more and more clearly of late, that the time
is drawing near, when I shall go again to Germany, to labour there for a
time; for the brethren who had fallen into grievous errors are now
recovering out of them, but need a helping hand to restore them fully,
or at least to confirm them in the truth. In addition to this I purpose
to publish some tracts in German. But though it is now four months,
since I have been daily praying respecting this object, I never had been
led to ask the Lord to give me means for it, because I felt assured,
that, when His time was come for me to go, He would provide the means;
and also because I had never felt myself led to pray about it. Today,
however, I asked the Lord that He would provide the means for all that
is necessary in connexion with this service; and I had a secret
satisfaction in feeling that so much was required, i.e. means for the
journey to and fro, means for our stay there, means for the publication
of Tracts, means to be left behind for the work in Bristol, to supply
the need at least for a time, for I did not wish to go, unless it were
the Lord's will, and if so, He would give the means. Now see how the
Lord dealt with me! About a quarter of an hour after 1 had been in
prayer with my dear wife respecting this object, and I had now, for the
first time, asked Him for means to carry it out, though for four months
we had daily prayed together respecting spiritual success in this
service, I received a letter containing an order for 500l. In the letter
this was written:

"I enclose * * * * 500l., which will be more useful in your hands than
in mine. I mean it in the first place for all that is needed preparatory
to and attendant upon your journey to Germany, and, whatever the surplus
may be, you will apply as you find there is need in the different parts
of service under your care." Thus the Lord has fully answered our
requests for means, and that so speedily!

On July 19th my dear wife and I left Bristol for Stuttgart. As the
letters, which I wrote to the church in Bris