4. Many came: (and so every _Friday_ since:) among the rest was one _William Kirkman_, a weaver, near _Old-Nichol Street_. I asked him, “What complaint have you?” “O sir, said he, a cough, a very sore cough. I can get no rest day nor night.” I asked “How long have you had it.” He replied, “About _threescore_ years: it began when I was _eleven_ years old.” I was nothing glad, that this man should come first; fearing our not curing him, might discourage others. However I looked up to God and said, “Take this _three_ or _four_ times a day. If it does you no good, it will do you no harm.” He took it _two_ or _three_ days. His cough was cured: and has not returned to this day. 5. Now let candid men judge, does humility require me to deny a notorious fact? If not, Which is _vanity_? To say, _I_ by my own skill, restored this man to health? Or to say, God did it by his own almighty power? By what figure of speech this is called, _boasting_, I know not. But I will put no name to such a fact as this. I leave that to the Rev. Dr. _Middleton_. 6. In five months, medicines were occasionally given, to above five hundred persons. Several of these I never saw before; for I did not regard, whether they were of the society, or not. In that time seventy-one of these, regularly taking their medicines, and following the regimen prescribed (which three in four would not do) were entirely cured, of distempers long thought to be incurable. The whole expence of medicines during this time, was (nearly) _forty pounds_. We continued this ever since, and by the blessing of God, with more and more success. XIII. 1. But I had for some years observed many who, although not sick, were not able to provide for themselves, and had none who took care to provide for them: these were chiefly feeble, aged widows. I consulted with the _stewards_, bow they might be relieved? They all agreed, if we could keep them in one house, it would not only be far less expensive to us, but also far more comfortable for them. Indeed we had no money to begin. But we believed He would provide, _who defendeth the cause of the widow_. So we took a lease of two little houses near: we fitted them up, so as to be warm and clean. We took in as many widows as we had room for, and provided them with things needful for the body: toward the expence of which I set aside, first, the weekly contributions of the _bands_, and then all that was collected at the Lord’s supper. It is true, this does not suffice: so that we are still considerably in debt, on this account also. But we are persuaded, it will not always be so; seeing _the earth is the _Lord_’s and the fulness thereof_.