lf more highly than he ought to
think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the
measure of faith." Rom. xii. 3.

Answer: If the Lord were to leave me to myself, the tenth part of the
difficulties and trials, which befall me now in connexion with the
various objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and
Abroad, would be enough to overwhelm me; but, whilst He is pleased to
sustain me, I am able day by day to pass on peacefully, and am carried
through one difficulty after the other: and thus, by God's help, even
with my present measure of faith, if continued to me, should be enabled
to bear up under other difficulties and trials; but I look for an
increase of faith with every fresh difficulty, through which the Lord is
pleased to help me.

2. Would it not be going beyond my measure naturally with reference to
mental and bodily strength? Answer: Of all the objections against
establishing another Orphan-House, there is none that weighs more with
me than this; I might say, it is the only real difficulty. This,
however, too, I am enabled to put aside and to overcome thus: By
husbanding my strength, by great order, by regular habits, by lightening
the work as much as possible, and by using every help that I can, I have
been enabled to get through a vast quantity of work. My immense
correspondence of about 3000 letters a-year, I have been enabled to
accomplish without a secretary. The entire management and direction, and
the whole vast correspondence of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution
has devolved upon myself alone these sixteen years and ten months, and I
have been thinking that, by seeking for an efficient secretary, an
efficient clerk, and an inspector of the schools, I might, with God's
help, accomplish yet more, though much of what I have been doing
hitherto would need to be done by others. There have been several other
arrangements brought before my mind, since I have been exercised about
this matter, whereby, with the blessing of God, the work might be
lightened. I should certainly need efficient helpers to carry out the
plans before me; but with such, I, as director, might be enabled, by
God's help, to accomplish yet more.

3. There must be a limit to my work and service. Answer: That is true,
and if I were quite sure that the present state of the Scriptural
Knowledge Institution were to be the limit, I would at once lay aside
this thing; but I am not sure that I am come as