1. Without any one having been personally applied to for anything by me,
the sum of 13,275l. 6s. 9 3/4 d. was given to me as the result of prayer
to God, from the commencement of the work up to May 26, 1846. This sum
includes the 2710l. 3s. 5 1/2 d. which up to June 4, 1846, was given
towards the Building Fund. (It may be interesting to the reader to know
that the total amount which was given as free contributions, for the
other objects, from the commencement of the work up to May 26, 1846,
amounts to 4833l. 18s. 10 3/4 d.; and that which came in by the sale of
Bibles and Tracts, and by the payments of the children in the
Day-Schools, amounts to 2097l. 18s. 2 1/2 d.) 2. Besides this, also a
great variety and number of articles of clothing, furniture, provisions,
etc., were given for the Orphans, as has been stated in the printed
Reports. The total expenditure for the Orphans from July 14, 1844, to
May 26, 1846, was 2732l. 14s. 1 1/2 d., and for the other objects 1325l.
7s. 7 1/4 d.

In conclusion I cannot but mention, to the praise of the Lord,
concerning this period, that four of the Sunday-School children were
admitted to communion. Likewise three more of the Orphans were received
into church fellowship, so that up to that time, altogether 32 of the
Orphans had been admitted. I also mention with peculiar joy, and as a
matter for thankfulness, that of those who were apprenticed or sent out
to service, from July 14, 1844, to May 20, 1846, ten were believers,
most of whom had been for several years in fellowship, before they were
sent out to service. But whilst we desire to receive these instances as
precious encouragements from the Lord to continue our service, we cannot
but believe, judging from the many prayers the Lord gives us for the
children and adults under our care and instruction, that that which we
see is but an earnest of a far larger harvest in the day of Christ's
appearing.

Matters connected with my own personal affairs, or time work of the Lord
in my hands, not immediately connected with the Scriptural Knowledge
Institution, from January 1, 1844, to May 26, 1846.

Soon after my return from Germany, where I had been labouring for seven
months in 1843, and 1844, of which I have written at length in the third
part of this Narrative, I had it laid on my heart to go there again for
a season; but, before doing so, I felt called upon to prepare for the
press a new edition of the first and second parts, and