At its close, a gentleman said to him, “Mr. H., I have known you by sight for years; know your work; but have never given you anything; and I promised myself the next time I saw you, I would do so.  Have you any special need of five dollars now?  If so, and you will step to the bank with me, you shall have it.”  Instantly it flashed through the mind of H. that this was the day when, either the borrower or he, must pay his friend.  It may be supposed that he went to the bank with alacrity.  Going back to B. and meeting the friend, he learned that neither man nor money had appeared, and at once tendered the five dollars, telling the story of the Lord’s care in the matter.

Q. was so interested in this manner of obtaining supplies, that he refused to take the money, and instructed H. to use it in the Lord’s work.

PRAYING FOR MONEY FOR A JOURNEY.

A lady, Miss E., residing in New Bedford, received a letter telling of the serious illness of her mother, in New York.  Sick herself, from unremitted care of an invalid during eight years, poor as Elijah when his only grocers were the ravens, too old for new ambitions, too well acquainted with the gray mists of life to hope for many rifts through which the sunshine might enter, she had no sum of money at all approaching the cost of the trip between the two places.

“He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust,” is a text bound over her daily life, as a phylactery was bound between the eyes of an ancient Hebrew.  She lives literally, only one day at a time, and walks literally by faith and not by sight.  So then as ever, the Lord was her committee of ways and means; but for three days the answer was delayed.  Then, an old lady called to express her indebtedness for Miss E.’s services three years before, and ask her acceptance of ten dollars therefor, “no sort of equivalent for days and days of writing and searching law papers, but only a little token that the service was not forgotten.”

There was the answer to her prayer; there the redemption of the pledge:  “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth, even forever.”

EMPLOYMENT FOUND.

A man and wife were out of employment, and in very great trouble.  Mr. H. (missionary) had added his efforts to theirs, and sedulously sought among the families he knew, for positions for them.  After two weeks’ fruitless endeavor, he said to the man, “Well, John, let us go into the Fulton street meeting and leave it with the Lord.”  They did so; the request was read and remembered.

The very next day, Mr. H. received a note from one of the families to whom he had already applied, and without success, requesting him to send the man and wife of whom he had spoken.  Very joyfully he did so, and they were both engaged!  Mr. H. considered it a very marked answer to prayer, inasmuch as it was quite difficult to find a family who wanted a man as well as woman servant; and that particular family was, of all others, the least likely to make such an arrangement!