Oh! that you would come as one of us, to work in the faith of a divine idea, to toil in loneliness and tears for the sake of the kingdom which God may build up by our hands.

All here, that is, all our old central members, feel more and more the spirit of devotedness, the thirst to do or die, for the cause we have at heart.

We do not distrust Providence.

We cannot believe that what we have gained here of spiritual progress will be lost through want of material resources.

At present, however, we are in great straits.
We hardly dare to provide the means of keeping warm in our pleasant nest this winter.
"Just look at our case.