I have been slenderly cheered by a large number of brethren who have greatly sympathized with me and helped me to fight the Lord’s battles by bravely looking on. I have not a word to say against that scriptural prudence which bids us, like the ant, lay by in store for wintry times; but of the hunger to be rich, and of the selfish expenditure which forgets entirely that our substance is to be used for the glory of God, and that we are only stewards. If the second advent was to be a spiritual manifestation,