he two chapels . . . . . L149 14 9

2. By presents in money from believers in
Bristol, not given anonymously . . 101 3 0

3. By presents in money, from believers
not residing in Bristol . . . 158 19 7

4. By presents in articles, worth at least . 3 5 0

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L413 2 4

Full account of the reasons which led me to the enlargement of the
Orphan work, so that One Thousand Orphans might be provided for.

Having written down at full length the exercises of my mind respecting
this deeply important step, I give them here, in the form of a journal,
as recorded at the time.

Dec. 5, 1850. It is now sixteen years and nine months this evening,
since I began the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad.
This Institution was in its beginning exceedingly small. Now it is so
large, that I have not only disbursed, since its commencement, about
Fifty Thousand Pounds sterling, but the current expenses, after the rate
of the last months, amount to above L6,000 a year. I did "open my mouth
wide," this very evening fifteen years ago, and the Lord has filled it.
The New Orphan-House is now inhabited by 300 Orphans; and there are
altogether 335 persons connected with it. My labour is abundant. The
separation from my dear wife and child great, on account of my being the
greater part of the day at the New Orphan-House; sometimes also by
night. But notwithstanding all this, I have again and again thought
about labouring more than ever in serving poor Orphans. Within the last
ten days this matter has much occupied my mind, and for the last five
days I have had much prayer about it. It has passed through my mind to
build another Orphan-House, large enough for Seven Hundred Orphans, so
that I might be able to care for One Thousand altogether. The points
which have led me to this thought are: 1, The many distressing cases of
children, bereaved of both parents, who have no helper. I have received
207 Orphans within the last sixteen months, and have now 78 waiting for
admission, without having vacancies for any. I had about 60 children
waiting for admission about sixteen months since, so about 230 children
have been applied for within these sixteen months. But, humanly
speaking, for the next sixteen months the number of applications will be
far greater, as the work is now so much more widely known; except it be
that persons may hear that the New Orphan-House is quite full, and on
that account may consider it useless to apply. 2