CHAPTEE IX.
 

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The stream of requests constantly flowing m to the
Fulton street Meeting is sometimes most agreeably
varied by new communications from old contribu¬
tors. They who before came to ask Christians to
pray with them, now ask their brethren to unite in
joyful thanksgiving to God for mercies received, like
the woman in the parable, who " calleth together her
friends and her neighbours, saying, Eejoice with me,
for I have found the piece which I had lost." ISTot
so many letters and notes of this kind have been
received as might have been expected, in consideration
of the numerous instances in which prayer for specific
objects has been offered and answered.

This in .many cases is no doubt owing to circum¬
stances which forbid the opportunity to make known
the result. In others, the joy of conversion so absorbs
the mind of the new-born soul that the matter is for¬
gotten.    That soul may indeed be full of praise and