e, the average
expenses for each child would be too great, it being desirable, as the
arrangements are now, that there should not be less than 3 labourers in
each house; and yet, if there are 30 children in each house, we are too
lull in time of sickness, as we have not a single spare room in any of
the houses. Now, though the Lord has during all these years most
mercifully helped us through such seasons, yet it has not been without
inconvenience, and without also, perhaps, having more of the children in
one room, at such times, than on account of health is desirable.

7. Even ordinarily, when there is no sickness, it would be desirable to
have more room.

There are no premises to be had in Bristol, or in the immediate
neighbourhood, where we could have these advantages; for I have been
looking about in all directions for this purpose during the last ten
years. But suppose there were a large house to be had in one part of the
city, and a second a mile off, and a third and a fourth in other
directions, such houses, on account of our peculiar position in the
work, would not do. For in seasons of need, the distance of the several
houses would render it very inconvenient for the labourers to meet
together for prayer, to divide the means that may be in hand, etc.
Besides, when in seasons of other peculiar difficulties, connected with
the work, I wished to meet all my fellow-labourers, there would arise
great difficulty by their being divided in different parts of the city.
It would also thus be very inconvenient to persons, who wish to see the
work, to go from place to place, in order to have a view of all the
Orphan-Houses. But this is not all. The more I have considered the
matter, the more am I now persuaded, that no ordinary large houses,
built for private families, and therefore only calculated to accommodate
10 or 15 persons, at most, for any length of time in them, will do for
charitable institutions of any considerable size, as no ordinary house
furnishes the proper advantages of ventilation, a point so needful for
the health of the inmates in a charitable institution. There seemed to
me, therefore to remain nothing but to build premises for the purpose.

II. Reasons for Remaining in Wilson Street.

1. God hitherto has pointed out the spot most plainly. At the
commencement of the work, in 1835, no other house was to be had but No.
6, Wilson Street. After-wards, when in 1830 the Infant Orphan-House was
on the poin