She immediately said, 'Oh, no; not unkind. Did not the Saviour suffer far more than I have done! He suffered willingly for me; and I feel that sufferings only make me love him more." At another time, she said, 'I have been trying to think what kind of a place heaven is, and I fancy that it must be too beautiful for us to have any idea of it until we are there. But there is one thing we do know-the Saviour will be there; and that is enough for me.' I said to her just to try her, 'When you get well again, you will not care for those things as you do now. Oh, aunty! she said, almost reproachfully, I see the world to be so empty and vain, that nothing but the pleasures of religion can ever make me happy. I can never cease to prefer them, and I am resolved to serve the Lord.'

She never kept her bed. Her aunt says,-' On the day before her death, she followed me about the house, and would not let me leave her a moment. She seemed as if she could not love me enough. Her breath was short, and her cough was sometimes very troublesome; yet we fancied that she was better, and almost hoped that she would be spared to us a little longer. At night, when I put her to bed, she put her arms round my neck, and in her usual manner said to me- Dear aunty, I love you very, very dearly.' She slept quietly until six o'clock in the morning; but as soon as she awoke, I observed a change, that told me Hattie was no longer mine. We sent for the doctor, but before he arrived, the dear child just breathed one gentle sigh, and the spirit left its frail tenement to become a bright gem in the crown of Jesus.'

A CHEQUE FOR £1000.

CHEERING WORDS IN THE ORPHAN HOUSES, ON ASHLEY DOWN, BRISTOL.

Mr. George Muller is one of those highly-favoured servants of the Lord in this our day; to whom has been assigned the great work of erecting and maintaining Homes for Orphan Children. We wish to call attention to this excellent enterprize: this work of faith, this labor of love; this answer to persevering prayer: and therefore, from time to time, we desire to devote a corner of a page, that our readers may be gladdened in seeing how the Lord prospers the work of those who seek to do good in his thrice holy name.

At the outset of the NINETEENTH REPORT, we have the following cheerful item. Others, we hope to give :

Sept. 18. I had returned home from the newly-built house, for 400 more Orphans, when I found a cheque for One Thousand Pounds from a brother in the Lord, who desires to spend the whole of his large income for the Lord, laying up no treasure on earth, and spending very little upon his own necessities. He writes: "Desiring that our heavenly Father will guide me, as a steward of his bounty; and, after seeking his direction, I conclude it is good and profitable to invest a little in the Orphan Houses. Will you please to put the inclosed sum towards the Building-Fund." I make the following remarks in connexion with this donation:

1. When I felt led to enlarge the Orphan-work, so that a thousand, instead of 300 Orphans, might be provided for, I had no natural prospect whatever, that I should obtain the means. But while I had no natural prospects of accomplishing what I desired, I had faith in God, and was assured that he would help me through all the difficulties. Accordingly, he sent me one donation after the other, and by large and small sums encouraged me yet further and further to look to him. This donor, at that time, had not the ability, however willing he might have been, to help me to such an extent; but God knew at that time already, that he would give him the means, and make him one of the many helpers to carry out my plans, made after much prayer, concerning this enlargement.

2. The donor sent this donation, as he writes, after prayer; and after prayer concludes it is "good and profitable to invest a little in the Orphan Houses." Even as to our way of spending our money, we should not be led by mere feeling, much less be influenced by its becoming known, and our thus getting some esteem from our fellowmen; nor should we do things, because others do them; but, as the steward of God, we should contribute the much or the little we have to give, in the way in which we are led after prayer; doing always what we do to God and not to man.

3, The donor writes he considers it "profitable to invest a little in the Orphan Houses." Do all the readers understand the meaning of this? The donor has not received any interest from me, nor will he have any from me on this £1000; and yet I doubt not, this investment will be profitable to him. In such cases I have found that the Lord, even here in this life, has taken notice of such deeds, and given ample repayment, often tenfold, twentyfold, yea, in not a few instan

ces, even a hundred fold, according to that word: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."-Luke vi. 38. He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully."-2 Cor. ix. 6. But while even as to this life, we shall not be losers by acting faithfully as the Lord's stewards, yet what shall we say when looking at the Day of Christ, when even the cup of cold water, given to a disciple in the name of a disciple, shall be rewarded. Were it more habitually before our minds, how brief this present life is in comparison with eternity, and how bright and glorious, and unspeakably precious the blessings which await the believer in the day of Christ; how gladly should we seek habitually to spend and be spent for him. Let the believer only realize the vanity of earthly things, and the preciousness of heavenly treasures, and he will seek to live for eternity, and, among other things, will be delighted to lay up treasure in heaven. It may not be that the money is given to an Orphan-Establishment, nor even to Missionary objects; but in some way or other such a one will consider it an honour and a privilege to be allowed of the Lord to use his means for him.

'SIX DAYS SPIRITUAL ENJOYMENT OF HEAVENLY VISIONS.' -Mr. Isaac Mc. Carthy, the original Baptist Missionary in Ireland, and the planter of several churches, has recently been six clear days in a trance; during which time he had holy and happy visions of things concerning the progress of the gospel of Christ. It is published in a separate pamphlet by G. S. Stevenson, 54, Paternoster-row; and is expressive of the happy condition of an aged servant of Christ, when in the waters of Jordan. Mr. Mc. Carthy is now over 70; and, at Bristol is waiting for the Lord to call him home. The Lord, by the prophet Joel, speaking of the last times, says, 'your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.' Both parts of the prophecy are literally fulfilled in our days. The pamphlet descriptive of Mr. Mc. Carthy's trance-is highly interesting; and is a faithful testimony illustrative of that precious word- even to your old age I am he,' &c.

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CARPENTER'S SON.

LETTER XI.

Παν πρᾶγμα δύο ἔχει λαβας.—ΕPICT.

UNAQUÆQUE RES DUAS HABET ANSAS.

MY DEAR SIR-If you will have more of my life, you must go with me through an episode in it; for that subsequently led me to the road which conducted me to the place I now occupy..

You say, 'he who lives long, and gives an account of himself, has many strange things to relate;' and, hence, you conclude that, there are stranger things in my history than have yet been told. And you are strengthened in this conclusion, by the wide interval between the years '32 and '59; and by, what you are pleased to call the 'wider distinction in social position.'

Having arrived at this conclusion, you beg me to proceed; assuring me that what is already written is 'neither uninteresting nor useless.'

I can assure you, my dear sir, that without such encouragement, my inclination was to write no more. For many things may be thought of, as John Bunyan says of temptations, which produce thankful reflections to ourselves, that are not the most pleasant things to put down for the perusal of others. Yet, if I must give you another letter, I shall do it with the feeling that, 'out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.' Judges xiv. 14.

At the end of the year 1832, I was again in Canterbury. I had had enough of travel and experience to fit me for undertaking any work in the trade which I followed; and now many openings invitted me to settle near my parents, and among my friends, which I had no longer an idea or wish to disregard. I determined to remain in Canterbury, and become an unostentatious workman and scholar. I had tools and books, and youth and health, and an increasing experience of favor with God and man, when an event occurred which removed me for ever from Canterbury,

'And cast me helpless on the wild.'

I was returning from my labour one Saturday evening, when I stopped at a window in Northgate Street, to read a large placard addressed to the

FREE AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE CITY.'

It was the first address of a third and new candidate for the representation of Canterbury in Parliament. Two others had been fong in the field, and the nomination was to take place on the following Monday. The address was a strange mixture of politics and religion; of corruption exposed, and truth propounded; but the very strangeness was fascinating, as the following Monday proved, when those gentlemen who had long been known, and had canvassed the electors, had to demand a pole against the overwhelming show of hands held up forthe stranger-who proclaimed himself