ceive twenty-seven, therefore 326 remain unprovided for.
This number would be far greater still, had not many persons been kept
from applying to me; for they considered it useless, as the number of
Orphans, waiting for admission, was already so great. Now when I
consider all the help which the Lord has been pleased to grant me in
this His service for so many years, and how He has carried me through
one difficulty after another, and when I see one case after another, of
the most pitiable Orphans (some less than one year old) brought before
me; how can I but labour on in prayer on their behalf, fully believing
that God, in His own time, will give me the means for this intended
second home for 700 more Orphans, though I know not when the money will
be sent, and whom He will honour to be the instruments, whether it will
come from many or from few comparatively, and whether more especially
from those donors whom God has used in former times, or whether He may
be pleased to put it into the heart of those to assist me in this
service, whose names I have never heard up to this time.

B. Up to the present I have taken no actual steps towards the erection
of the second Orphan-House, nor do I mean to do anything in the way of
purchasing the land, &c., until I have a sum in hand which may point out
that the Lord's time is come for taking such steps. At present I do
not allow my mind to be occupied with such points, but seek to go on
step by step, and therefore, in the first place, to wait upon God for a
greater amount of means than I have in hand at present; and when the
Lord shall have been pleased to grant me this, I doubt not that He will
also guide and direct me as to carrying out the desire which, I trust,
He has put into my heart, to be still more extensively used as the
Friend of the Orphan.

C. I state again that this second Orphan-House is only intended, as the
one already built, for children who have been lawfully begotten, who
have lost both parents by death, and who are in destitute circumstances;
this, however, being the case, children may be received from any place,
and the more destitute, the fewer patrons and friends they have to plead
their cause, the more likely they are to be received, as neither favour
nor partiality is shown in the admission of the children, but their
cases are considered in the order in which applications are made. I
state again here especially, that no sectarian views prompt me, or even
in t