we should do daily, we ask that the Lord, in his providence, will supply us with what is needful for our bodily wants, and for those of our families, or of such as are dependent upon us. And if this petition is offered in a humble and devout spirit, we may be sure it will be answered. The Lord knows all our wants, even to the minutest particular: "Your heavenly Father," said the Lord, "knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him."[1] And he is both able and willing to supply them. Is he not the Almighty Creator and sustainer of the universe? Is he not the owner of all things? "The world," says he, "is mine, and the fulness thereof." "Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills."[2] Nay, when he was in the world, dwelling as a man amongst men, did he not show his omnipotence, by creating bread instantaneously, and feeding five thousand with five loaves?—for, as it is declared, "he had compassion on the multitude, because they had nothing to eat; and he would not send them away fasting, lest they should faint by the way."[3] And will not the same Jehovah Jesus, the one Lord of heaven and earth, have compassion on any of his children, whoever or wherever they be, who cry to him for food, and ask him for the necessaries of life? Assuredly, he will. Do not you think he knew, before you were born, everything you would need till the day of your death,—yes, and to eternity after? and would he have brought you into being, without knowing that he could provide for you? No: your minutest want was
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