“I could not help weeping, admiring the goodness of God.  As I studied the Bible, I clearly perceived that the most eminent saints of the Bible were brought into low circumstances, as Jacob, David, Moses, Joseph, Job and Jeremiah, and all the apostles, in order that the hand of providence might be watched.”

GOD TAKES AWAY THE SNOW.

“In the Winter the Lord sent a very deep snow, which lay a considerable time on the ground.  We were brought into great straits, as our wheat was now of no use to us, and we could obtain no wood, the landlady saying that as the snow was likely to last some time, she must keep what little she had left, and could sell us no more.

“There was before us the fear of great suffering with the cold.  I begged of God that he might that night take away the snow, and send us something to burn, that our little one might not perish with the cold, and the next morning the snow was all gone.”

SIGHT RESTORED.

“A violent humor came into my eyes, and for some months I was in danger of losing my sight.  Both myself and my second daughter had it more or less for several years.

“In answer to prayer, God healed her eyes and mine too, so that our sight was perfectly recovered.”

PRAYING FOR TEA.

“As the life of faith consists in bearing the cross of Christ, we must not expect to be long without trials.  Providence soon frowned on me again, and I got behindhand, as usual.

“This happened at a time when my wife was about delivery of child, and we were destitute of those necessaries of life which are needful at such times.  The nurse came:  we told her there was no tea in the house.  My wife replied, ‘Set the kettle on, even if there is not.’

“The nurse said, ‘You have no tea, nor can you get any.’  My wife replied, ‘Set on the kettle.’  She did so, and before it boiled, a woman (with whom at that time we had no acquaintance) came to the door, and told the nurse that she had brought some tea as a present for my wife.”

THE LORD PAID HIS DEBT.

“It was the time of my returning from the north country.  I observed that there were some small debts to be discharged.  But the hand of God was fast closed; this continued for some time:  and for all that time, I watched and observed narrowly.

“At this time there was a special debt due of twenty pounds.  This sum hung long.  I looked different ways, and chalked out different roads for the Almighty to walk in; but his paths were in the deep waters, and his footsteps were not known; no raven came, neither in the morning, nor in the evening.