o given 5 stuffed birds and a pincushion. Also
2 cups, 2 shells, a book-mark, and a watch guard. Also a knitted cloth.

April 27. Anonymously 4s., and by sale of articles 3s. 9d. I received
also the following letter from Sunderland:

"Sunderland, April 24, 1846.

"Beloved Brother,

"A year having now elapsed since our chapel was opened, and our God
having signally blessed us in all things, the saints here have been
stirred up to present a thank-offering to our Father, and to give it for
the New Orphan-Houses. I therefore send you in their name, the sum of
17l. Etc."

May 3. From a sister at Bath 10s.

May 9. By sale of articles 1s. "A widow's mite" 1l.

May 11. From a brother 50l.

May 21. From Oxford 1l.

May 27. From a sister in Bristol 1l.

June 2. Through a sister 1s. 3d.

June. 4. From Leicestershire 5s., and from a sister in Bristol 2s. 6d.

That which has been stated above concerning the origin of the New
Orphan-House on Ashley Down, Bristol, was published in the Ninth Report
of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad, which was
issued in the year 1846. In that Report were added to the above, the
following remarks, which I likewise give here again, in order that the
reader may have a clear under-standing of the whole, and also the full
particulars concerning this Orphan Establishment.

1. The total amount, which has been given for the Building-Fund, up to
June 4, 1846, is 2710l. 3s. 5 1/2 d. This is only a small part of what
will be needed, but, by the grace of God, I am in perfect peace, being
fully assured that God in His own time will send the whole sum which is
required. Many and great have already been the exercises of faith and
patient since I first began to give myself to prayer about this work,
and still greater they may be, before it is accomplished; but God, in
the riches of His grace, will help me through them all. It is now (June
4, 1846) 212 days since I first began to pray about this work, and day
after day, since then, have I been enabled to continue to wait upon God,
and I am more than ever assured that, notwithstanding all my exceeding
great unworthiness, God will condescend to use me, to build this House.
Had it been the excitement of the moment, the difficulties which have
already come upon me in connexion with this work, (which are not stated
here, on account of their occupying too much room) would have
overwhelmed me; but as God Himself, I trust, led me to thi