rable means,
before the accounts are closed on the 26th, so that there might not be
even the appearance, as if I wrote another Report, because I could get
on no longer without it.

May 26, 1848. On this day the accounts were closed. The total sum which
has come in from the 12th to this day, is 40l, 3s. 7d. Thus the Lord
closes this period under His manifest help! I have been able to meet all
the expenses connected with the support of the four Orphan-Houses during
the last two years, amounting to 3,228l. 5s. 11d., owe no one anything,
and have on this 26th of May, 1848, 1l. 10s. 3 3/4 d. left in hand.

Further Account of the New Orphan-House, on Ashley Down, Bristol, from
May 26, 1846, to May 26, 1848.

Those, who have read the former chapter on this subject, will remember,
how I was obliged to think of building an Orphan-House, and how, when
once led to this, I felt myself also led to build it large enough for
Three Hundred Orphans; and how the Lord, in His great kindness, most
manifestly in answer to prayer, gave me a field of about seven acres for
the purpose; and how, by various donations, 2,710l. 3s. 5 1/2 d. had been
already received on May 26, 1848. I shall now give a further account of
the Lord's dealings with me, concerning the New Orphan-House, yet so,
that, for the sake of brevity, only a few of the donations will be
referred to, and chiefly those which seem more particularly to mark the
finger of God.

July 4, 1846. For about three months my faith and patience have been
exceedingly tried about the field, which I have purchased for the
building of the Orphan-House, as the greatest difficulties arose about
my possessing the land after all; but, by God's grace, my heart was
kept in peace, being fully assured, that, if the Lord were to take this
piece of land from me, it would be only for the purpose of giving me a
still better one; for our Heavenly Father never takes any earthly thing
from His children except He means to give them something better instead.
But in the midst of all this great trial of faith, I could not but
think, judging from the way in which God so manifestly had given me this
piece of land, that the difficulties were only allowed for the trial of
my faith and patience. And thus it was. Last evening I received a letter
by which all the difficulties were removed, and now, with the blessing
of God, in a few days the conveyance will be made out.

July 6. The reason why, for several months, the