yet to God's limit.
All these sixteen years and ten months, the work has been constantly
progressing, and the Lord has helped me continually; and now my mind is
just in the same way exercised, as when fifteen years ago I began the
Orphan Work, and as when thirteen years ago it was enlarged, and as when
seven years and nine months since it was still further enlarged, and as
when five years and two months since I was led to decide on building the
New Orphan-House. Under these circumstances, having been helped through
all these difficulties, and seeing such a vast field of usefulness
before me, and having so many applications for the admission of very
destitute Orphans, I long to be used still further, and cannot say that
as yet the Lord has brought me to His limit.

4. Is it not like "tempting God," to think of building another
Orphan-House for seven hundred more orphans? Answer: "Tempting God"
means, according to the Holy Scriptures, to limit Him in any of His
attributes by His grace I do not wish to limit His power or His
willingness, to give to me, His poor servant, simply in answer to
prayer, all the means, and every other help and blessing which I shall
need to build another large Orphan-House.

5. You will not get the means for building and fitting up so large an
Orphan-House; and, even if you did, how will you, at the same time, get
the means for carrying on the work, which already exists? Answer:
Looking at the matter naturally, this is indeed a weighty objection.

The New Orphan-House, with its 300 Orphans only, cost about fifteen
thousand pounds to build and to fit up and furnish, and still the
expenses are not all met even now. It will in all probability cost
several hundred pounds yet. And this large sum was needed, though the
style of the building is most simple, and though the field in which it
was built was comparatively cheap. After this rate, a building to
accommodate seven hundred Orphans, with the necessary ground attached to
it for the cultivation of the vegetables used in the Institution, could
not be less than thirty-five thousand pounds. Now, looking at it
naturally, where is this great sum to come from? Though I looked at all
my friends who have given hitherto, and several have done so very
liberally, yet there is no natural prospect whatever of receiving this
amount; especially if it be kept in mind that six or seven thousand
pounds besides, every year, would be needed for carrying on that whic