, such as
borrowing, taking goods on credit, etc., to deliver yourselves. This way
needs but to be tried, in order that its excellency may be enjoyed.

There are a few points more which may be of interest to the believing
reader, which I shall now add.

1. There have been, during this year, six day schools for poor children
_entirely_ supported by the funds of our Institution, all of which have
been established by us.

The number of all the children that have had schooling in the day
schools through the medium of the Institution, since its formation,
amounts to 2,216; the number of those at present in the six day schools
is 303.

These day schools have defrayed, by the payments of the children, about
the sixth part of their own expenses.

2. There is one Sunday school entirely supported by the funds of the
Institution.

3. There has been, since the formation of the Institution, one adult
school connected with it, in which, on the Lord's day afternoons, since
that time, about 150 adults have been instructed.

4. The number of Bibles and Testaments which have been circulated
through the medium of our Institution, during the last year, amounts to
452 copies.

There have been circulated since March 5, 1834, 6,044 copies of the
Scriptures.

5. There have been laid out, during the last year, of the funds of the
Institution, L120, 10s. 2d. for missionary purposes.

6. There are at present ninety-one orphans in the three houses. The
total number of the orphans who have been under our care from April 11,
1836, to December 9, 1840, amounts to 129.

_Without any one having been asked for anything by us_, the sum of
L3,937, 1s. 1d. has been given to us for the Orphan Houses, _as the
result of prayer to God_, since the commencement of the work.

THE BLESSING OF THE LORD UPON THE WORK IN REFERENCE
TO THE SOULS OF THE CHILDREN.

1. During the last fourteen months there have been meetings purposely
for children, at which the Scriptures have been expounded to them. At
these meetings an almost universal attention is manifested by them,
which I thankfully ascribe to the Lord, and upon which I look as a
forerunner of greater blessing.

2. During the last year three of the Sunday-school children have been
received into fellowship.

3. At the end of last year there had been eight orphans received into
communion; during the present year fourteen have been received; in all,
twenty-two.

It was stated in the last year's