Page 88 - Living Epistles

accommodation he had to seek quarters elsewhere...

"After much thought and prayer, I was led to leave the comfortable home
and pleasant circle in which I resided, and engage a little lodging in the
suburbs, a sitting-room and bedroom in one, undertaking to board myself.
I was thus enabled to tithe the whole of my income; and while one felt the
change a good deal, it was attended with no small blessing. More time was
given in my solitude to the study of the Word of God, to visiting the poor and
to evangelistic work on Sunday evenings than would otherwise have been the
case. Brought into contact in this way with many who were in distress, I
soon saw the privilege of still further economizing, and found it possible to
give away much more than I had at first intended."

It all reads so simply and naturally that one can hardly imagine any special
sacrifice to have been involved. Let us hunt up this " sitting-room and
bedroom in one," however, and find out what were in actual fact the
surroundings for which he had given up his home on Kingston Square. The
change could scarcely have been more complete.