to prayer, but that He can also give us even more than
we need. It will be seen how this balance was afterwards used.

Miscellaneous points respecting the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for
Home and Abroad, with reference to the period from May 26, 1848 to May
26, 1850.

1, During the whole of this period, five Day Schools, with 329 children
in them, were entirely supported by the Funds of this Institution; and
some pecuniary assistance was rendered to four other Day Schools. Also a
Sunday School, with 168 children, was entirely supported, and another
was occasionally assisted. Lastly, an Adult School, with 106 Adult
Scholars, was supported during this period. There was expended on these
various Schools 851l. 1s. 5 1/2 d. during these two years.--The number
of all the children that were taught in the Day Schools through the
medium of this Institution, from March 5 1834 to May 26, 1850, amounted
to 5114; the number of those in the Sunday Schools amounted to 2200; and
the number of the persons in the Adult School to 1737. In all 9051.

2, From May 26, 1848 to May 20, 1850, were circulated 719 Bibles and 239
New Testaments. There was expended on this object, during this period,
of the funds of the Institution, 104l. 15s. 11d. There were circulated
altogether, from March 5, 1834 to May 26, 1850, Six Thousand Four
Hundred and Sixty-Five Bibles and Three Thousand Nine Hundred and
Ninety-Nine New Testaments.

3, From May 26, 1848, to May 26, 1850, were spent 2574l. 16s. 6d. of the
funds of the Institution for missionary objects, whereby 40 preachers of
the Gospel in British Guiana, in the East Indies, in Switzerland, in
France, in Germany, in Canada, in Scotland, in Ireland, and in England
were assisted.

The reader will notice how greatly this object of the Institution was
increased during the last four years previous to May 26, 1850. This
arose from the fact, that, in the early part of 1846, the need of
certain brethren who laboured in the word and doctrine came before me,
and God laid them on my heart to labour for them in prayer, in order
that I might obtain means from Him for such brethren to a greater extent
than I had done before. Ever since then the Lord has been pleased
increasingly to use me in this way. For from May 26, 1846 to May 26,
1848, there was spent for that object nearly three times as much as
during any former period of the same length; and during the period from
May 26, 1848 to May 26, 1850, I was