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had promised me ten, and another four dollars, but had not yet handed them to me, to which I should otherwise have had recourse, from being completely destitute of other supplies. I was therefore obliged to send away the chief overlooker with the consolation, that God who is faithful would provide for us on this occasion also.' He went away, and found the work-people waiting for payment before the orphan-house; when a friend came unexpectedly to him, to whom he stated his present exigency; and the latter lent him fourteen rix-dollars. Whilst beginning to pay them away, and before he had finished doing so, I received from another place, something more than thirty dollars, of which I immediately sent him the thirty he required, and applied the remainder for the other necessities of the poor. And in this instance also, we saw the Lord's visible aid.

"At the end of the following week, our necessities were equally pressing, and it was observed that Friday was one pay-day, for the house expences, and Saturday another for the building; but there was nothing in hand, either for the one day or the other. I therefore replied, that the time was again arrived, when we should have reason to rejoice; for God would doubtless manifest his wonder-working power anew. Accordingly I sent the manager away with the words, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us :" for this encouraging expression of Samuel's, (1 Sam. vii. 12.) became a very comforting proverb to us, which we learnt duly to understand. Early the next day, fifty dollars arrived, with which God again assisted us through these two days.

"Our necessities were at another time very great; and because the manager was hard pressed for neces

sary expences, he began to feel considerable anxiety, so that he sought to employ every possible means to relieve the pressure, and amongst other things, disposed of a silver spoon, which some one had presented to the orphan-house, but all proved insufficient. Just at that very time, I received a hundred dollars for the poor, of which I immediately sent sixty to the manager, and with the residue supplied another necessity. A couple of hours after these hundred dollars had arrived, a letter was handed me, informing me, that thirteen and a half barrels of herrings, which some pious friends had forwarded for the orphan-house, were on the way. It may be easily supposed how much the manager was cheered in his extremely distressing situation, and strengthened in faith by this obvious aid; he even said he would in future rejoice in expectation of the Lord's wondrous aid, when necessity pressed, which he had hitherto been unable to do. He also affirmed, that from that time, he never again experienced in his mind such painful anxiety on the recurrence of want, but on the contrary rejoiced; and thought, 'I shall now see with astonishment, how and by what means, God, who is faithful, will this time send help.'

"At another time, money was demanded of me, even early in the morning, for payment the same day. I had however only six dollars, which gave for that purpose. The manager took it into his hand, counted it, and said, 'If it were six times as much, it would be sufficient; consequently, thirty-six dollars was the sum he required. I comforted him with the manifold experience of the divine aid; and the Lord, the very same day, multiplied the six dollars to thirtysix, to the no small strengthening both of his faith

and mine. But God did even still more, and bestowed, besides this, twenty-five ducats upon us, that we might also be provided for the day following, which was likewise a pay-day.

"At another time, when everything was exhausted, my assistants spoke in the evening conference upon the existing necessity, in a manner which greatly cheered and gratified us all, since we mutually strengthened each other by the promises of God, and called to mind with delight the manifold divine aid we had experienced, and rejoiced that God had given us the privilege in his word, of not needing to be careful, nor of suffering disturbance to enter our minds; but that we were permitted to place our whole confidence in his providence. The conclusion drawn from it was this, that we had the advantage of rejoicing in our present exigencies, which would have rendered others dejected, and oppressed their minds with care. On this we proceeded to prayer, unanimously praised God for his mercy and faithfulness, and committed our present circumstances into his paternal hands. The same hour, God touched the heart of a wealthy patron to reflect upon sending us something the following day, and to give orders, that he should not fail to be reminded of it. Accordingly the day following, I received three hundred dollars from him, and this was also connected with other particular circumstances, which made me perceive very clearly, the inwardly as well as outwardly operating hand of God.

"Another time, when we were in great distress, I received by the post two letters, one of which informed me, that two hundred and fifty dollars should be paid to me in behalf of the orphan-house and

these two hundred and fifty dollars were ordered to be paid over to me, by a certain doctor of medicine in America. The Lord be his physician for it! He was possibly in some measure acquainted with the German language; hence he had written to the mer. chant, whom he had ordered to pay this money, to inform me of it, if he could not immediately send it to me; and added, "for he is daily in want, and will probably soon send for it." This strengthened my faith very much; for I thought, before God will let us suffer want, the hearts of the people beyond the seas must be incited to help us.

"Once I had no more than eight groschen in hand, when according to God's wise dispensation, some people arrived from Leipzig, who were recommended to me. The family consisted of a husband and wife with five children, and they expected either that I should provide for them, or that they would elsewhere be received through my recommendation. I spoke encouragingly to them, and because I was unwilling to send them away comfortless, since I was really unable to assist them as they wished, I unfolded my circumstances freely to them, and told them, that two hundred people dined with me, but that though I had only eight groschen at that moment, I did not suffer any care to enter my heart, but relied upon him, who has said, 'I will never leave thee nor forsake thee;' and that if they would turn unto him with all their hearts, and trust in him, he would not forsake them. Whilst consoling and admonishing them in language of this nature, it occurred to me, that just such a man as he, was required by some one; I therefore told them to come again at a certain hour, when they might speak with the individual who wanted some

one. On their return to me, and whilst seeking to cheer them in a similar manner, after the person had said to them what was requisite, I accompanied them to the house door, and on returning into the house, I found a student there, who informed me of a certain person, whom however he was not permitted to name, who would send a contribution for the orphan-house for which only a sealed receipt was requested. The money consisted of forty currency dollars and five ducats. With this our wants were again supplied.

"Another time I was again very low in money, and had received little during the week, so that on the Friday, when the manager came as usual to demand money, I could not give him more than a single dollar, and I said the same evening, in simplicity, to the master-builder, that he must bring me something the following day, since I had nothing left. The next morning the manager came and again wanted money; I told him I had given out the last dollar yesterday and had nothing more. He asked 'what he was to do? the wood-cutters, and the women who washed the children, who were poor people, must necessarily have something given them, were it only a dollar.' I answered, that at present I had not so much; but that God knew there was an orphanhouse, and that we had nothing for it. 'That is true,' said he, and went away a little comforted. On returning to the orphan-house, he found a whole cart load of corn, which a kind benefactor, who knew nothing of our destitute circumstances, had sent us; he struck his hands together with astonishment, and marvelled at the wonderful providence of God.

"Once, when one of my assistants, who acted as

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