that their labors
had been singularly blessed to the conversion of the heathen,
and of the ignorant and deluded among whom they preached.

The total amount of the funds of the Institution which has been spent
on missionary operations, since March 5, 1834, is L21,794, 7s. 6d.

There has been laid out for tracts, from May 26, 1856, to May 26, 1857,
the sum of L975, 18s. 71/2d.; and there have been circulated within the
last year 1,313,301 tracts and books. The sum total which has been
expended on this object, since Nov. 19, 1840, amounts to L4,635, 15s.
23/4d.

The total number of all the tracts and books which have been circulated
since Nov. 19, 1840, is 5,710,981.

Letters from those to whom tracts were sent for distribution,
convey the intelligence that in very many instances the tracts
were blessed to the conversion of sinners.

At the commencement of the last period there were 299 orphans in the new
Orphan House on Ashley Down, Bristol. During the past year there were
admitted into it 30 orphans, making 329 in all. When the last Report was
published, there were 847 orphans waiting for admission. Since then 231
more destitute orphans, bereaved of both parents by death, and some only
a few weeks old, have been applied for to be admitted, making 1,078 in
all. Of these 1,078 we were only able to receive 30, as has been stated,
and 58 either died or were otherwise provided for, as their relatives or
friends have informed us, so that there are still 990 waiting for
admission. Christian reader, think of these 990 destitute orphans,
bereaved of both parents! I have now, however, before me the most
pleasant prospect, if the Lord permit, of being able to receive 400 of
them in about three months, and also of being permitted to build the
third house for 300 more.

_Without any one having been personally applied to for anything_ by me,
the sum of L92,175, 4s. 21/2d. has been given to me for the orphans,
_as the result of prayer to God_, since the commencement of the work,
which sum includes the L15,055, 3s. 21/4d. which was the cost of the
building, fitting up, and furnishing of the present new Orphan House,
and the L31,817, 1s. 11d., which had been received up to May 26, 1857,
for the building fund, and the L1,489, 7s. 9d., the balance of the
current expenses. It may also be interesting to the reader to know that
the total amount which has been given for the other objects, since the
commencement of t