money might be paid at a time when we much needed it.
And so it is just now. May I and all my brethren leave the management of
all our affairs entirely to the Lord, who best knows what is good for us;
and may it be our concern to seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all temporal supplies shall be added to us!

May 1. I went to see brother Craik, and found him better, but heard from
his medical attendant that he ought not to preach for several months. May
5. My father-in-law has been for several days very ill. May 15. Mr. Groves
continues very ill. May 29. This morning brother Craik went into
Devonshire for change of air.

June 3. Today we had a public meeting on account of the Scriptural
Knowledge Institution for home and abroad. It is now fifteen months,
since, in dependence upon the Lord for the supply of means, we have been
enabled to provide poor children with schooling, circulate the Holy
Scriptures, and aid missionary labours. During this time, though the field
of labour has been continually enlarged, and though we have now and then
been brought low in funds, the Lord has never allowed us to be obliged to
stop the work. We have been enabled during this time to establish three
day-schools, and to connect with the Institution two other charity
day-schools, which, humanly speaking, otherwise would have been closed for
want of means. In addition to this, the expenses connected with a
Sunday-school and an adult school have been likewise defrayed, making seven
schools altogether. The number of the children that have been thus
provided with schooling, in the day-schools only, amounts to 439. The
number of copies of the Holy Scriptures, which have been circulated, is
795 Bibles and 753 New Testaments. We have also sent, in aid of missionary
labours in Canada, in the East Indies, and on the Continent of Europe,
117l. 11s. The whole amount of the free-will offerings put into our hands
for carrying on this work, from March 5, 1834, to May 19, 1835, is 363l.
12s. 0 3/4d.

June 20. Our father is evidently today near his end. June 22. This
morning at two our father died. June 23. Both our children are ill. June
24. Our little boy is very ill. June 25. The dear little boy is so ill,
that I have no hope of his recovery. The disease is inflammation on the
chest. I spoke this evening comfortably at Gideon, on Psalm cxlv. 1-4,
thinking it right that neither the death of my father-in-law, nor my dying
child shou