leave God,--God did not leave her.

So she left the abode of her younger years--the scene of her
widowhood; and she went away to hire a poor lodging in the outlets of
London; but her God was with her, and the child she had nursed in her
prosperity was her comfort in adversity.

Matters, however, went no better when she lived with little Fanny in
a poor lodging. She had only one friend in London, and she lived at a
distance from her. Mrs. Newton fell ill; there was no one to nurse
her but Fanny; she could no longer pay for her schooling, and
sometimes she was not able to teach her herself.

All this seemed very hard, and very trying; and one would have been
tempted to think that God was no longer with poor Mrs. Newton; that
when she had left her cottage she had left the God who had been so
good to her.

But this would have been a great mistake. God was with Mrs. Newton;
He saw fit to try and afflict her; but He gave her strength and
patience to bear her trials and afflictions.

One afternoon her friend came to pay her a visit: she was going out
a little way into the country to see a relation who had a very fine
nursery-garden, and she begged Mrs. Newton to let little Fanny go
with her own daughter. Mrs. Newton was very glad to do so for she
thought it would be a nice amusement for Fanny.

The nurseryman was very kind to her; and when she was going away
gave her a fine bunch of flowers. Fanny was in great delight, for she