HELPLESSNESS OF MAN. 301 the grant, it may be, is accompanied with a mortifying coldness, with an in- telligible hint that the donor expects to be no further troubled. The grant may be attended with such a tedious delay, as may make it no benefit. The boon granted does not, perhaps, prove so valuable as the applicant expected ; or he finds he might have spent the long season of his attendance, his watching, and his waiting, to better purpose ; or he might have employed his interest in another quarter, in obtaining something more important ; or, after all, he may have received it too late in life to turn it to theprofitableaccount hehad expected. But the Almighty Donor never puts off His humble petitioner to a more con- venient season. His Court of Requests is always open. He receives the petition as soon as it is offered ; He grants it as soon as it is made ; and, though He will not dispense with a continuance of the application, yet to every fresh application He promises fresh support. He will
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