ng close by the Orphan-Houses must
be so during the play-hours, even though the noise be only of that kind,
that one could not at all find fault with the dear children on account
of it. I should myself feel it trying to my head to live next door to
the Orphan-Houses, on that account I therefore ought to do to others, as
I should wish to be done by. This point had never before appeared to me
in so serious a light.

2 The greatness of the number of the inmates in the houses has several
times prevented the drains from acting properly, and thus has a few
times affected the water in one or two of the neighbours' houses. With
reference to these two reasons, as it regards those living near the
Orphan-Houses, these words, "Let not your good be evil spoken of," Rom.
xiv. 16, and "Let your moderation (i.e. yieldingness) be known unto all
men," Philip iv. 5, seemed to me two important portions of the word of
God to be acted out in this matter.

But in addition to the reasons for removing the Orphans from Wilson
Street, on account of the unavoidable occasional inconvenience that
comes upon the neighbours, there appeared now to me, when once I was led
to consider seriously the reasons for removing the Institution from
Wilson Street, other reasons for doing so, in connexion with the work
itself, which had occurred to me before, but never in so strong a light
as now, when the subject was brought more immediately before me by the
letter, in which I was politely requested to remove the Orphans from
Wilson Street. These reasons are:

1. We have no proper play-grounds in Wilson Street. There is one
play-ground, which, however, is only large enough for the children of
one house at a time; but as there are children in four houses who ought
to have the benefit of it, we can not arrange so that all the children
have the full benefit of that play-ground, as the meals, the
school-hours, the weather, and other hinderances interfere. The dear
Orphans ought, I know, to be trained in habits of industry, but children
are children, and need to be treated as such; and they should, on
account of their health, have the full benefit of a play-ground. But
this they cannot have in Wilson Street: and to take them out into the
fields for the benefit of bodily exercise, as we have been in the habit
of doing, is often very inconvenient.

2. We have no ground for cultivation, near the Orphan-Houses, and hence
there must be more walking for the children, on