e_ of the
orphans.

The expenses in connection with the support of the 300 orphans and the
apprentices during this year were L3,453, 15s. 11/2d.

Dec. 31, 1852. During this year there have been received into fellowship
35 believers. The Lord has been pleased to give unto me L445, 8s.
81/2d.

My brother-in-law, Mr. A. N. Groves, of whom mention has been made in
the first part of this Narrative, as having been helpful to me by his
example when I began my labors in England in 1829, in that he, without
any visible support, and without being connected with any missionary
society, went with his wife and children to Bagdad, as a missionary,
after having given up a lucrative practice of about one thousand five
hundred pounds per year, returned in autumn 1852, from the East Indies,
a third time, being exceedingly ill. He lived, however, till May 20,
1853, when, after a most blessed testimony for the Lord, he fell asleep
in Jesus in my house.

I have already stated that on May 26, 1853, I had on hand toward
building premises large enough for the accommodation of 700 children,
the sum of L12,531, 12s. 01/4d.

A single circumstance will illustrate the widely diverse sources
from which donations are received, as well as the great
disparity in amount.

Jan. 17, 1854. From S. R. and E. R., two poor factory girls, near
Stroud, 1s. 7d. This day I also received the promise that there should
be paid to me, for the work of the Lord in my hands, L5,207, to be
disposed of as I might consider best.

The whole amount received for the new Orphan House, during the year
closing May 26, 1854, was L5,285, 17s. 5d., which made the total of
L17,816, 19s. 51/4d. in hand on May 26, 1854.

During this year the current expenses for the various objects of the
Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad amounted to L7,507,
0s. 111/2d., being L471, 8s. 11d. more than during any previous year;
yet the Lord not only enabled me to meet them all, but to add the sum of
L5,285, 7s. 5d. to the building fund.

There is yet a large sum required before I shall be enabled to build
another house for 700 orphans; nor have I now, any more than at the
first, any natural prospect of obtaining what is yet needed; but my hope
is in the living God. When I came to the conclusion that it was the will
of God that I should build another Orphan House, I had not only no
natural prospect of obtaining the L35,000 which would be needed for this
object