these meetings ever since. Many of them also manifested a
concern about the salvation of their companions and relations, and spoke
or wrote to them about the way to be saved. Should the believing reader
desire to know how it has been with these children since the end of
January and the beginning of February, our reply is, we have, in most
cases, cause for thankfulness. The present state of the 700 orphans,
spiritually, is, that there are 118 under our care, regarding whose
conversion we have full confidence; 89 regarding whom we have also
confidence, though not to that full degree as concerning the 118; and 53
whom we consider in a hopeful state. To these 260 are to be added the 14
who were sent out as believers, and the three who died in the faith
during the past year. It is to be remembered that very many of the
children in the Orphan Houses are quite young, as we have received them
from four months old and upward. During no year have we had greater
cause for thanksgiving on account of the spiritual blessing among the
children than during the last; AND YET WE LOOK FOR FURTHER AND GREATER
BLESSING STILL.

APPENDIX.

Mr. Mueller is constantly receiving not only contributions in money, but
a great variety of useful articles, which are regularly sent to a shop
provided for their sale. The following list of such articles, given
anonymously during the first six months of the year 1859-60, will not be
without interest to the reader, as showing by what an endless diversity
of means resources are furnished for the work in which Mr. M. is
engaged:--

JUNE. A bead bag, a bouquet-holder, 6 gilt brooches, a gilt
bracelet, a waist-buckle, and an agate heart.--5 pairs of
knitted travelling shoes, a compass and thermometer, a
court-plaster case, a guinea piece, 2 half franc pieces, a
copper coin, 4 rings, a brooch, a gold pencil-case, a pair of
earrings, top of a seal, and a gold waist-buckle.--A silver
watch guard; a small brooch, a breastpin, and a ring.--12 pairs
of garters.--A sofa tidy.--A small stereoscopic box. 6 frocks, 6
shirts, 4 pocket handkerchiefs, 2 pairs of socks, 2 nightcaps,
12 kettle-holders, 2 pairs of wristlets, 4 thimbles, 2 brooches,
steel slides, a bracelet, and waist-buckle. A bead mat, 2 bags,
a penwiper, 3 book-marks, and a scent-bag.--A pencil, 2 pairs of
spectacles, a smelling-bottle, a pocketbook, some gloves,
stockings, combs, and vario