with the opportunity of
purchasing Bibles and New Testaments, at a cheap rate, for giving them
away among the poor; and of furnishing believers in the higher classes,
who are Tract distributors, with an opportunity of purchasing simple
Gospel Tracts for circulation. Connected with this I desired,
especially, to present the truths of the Gospel, in print, before
genteel persons, whom I had not the same opportunity of reaching as
poorer persons to whom Tracts and Bibles might be given. To this my
attention was turned on account of the mighty efforts which were made to
take away the Holy Scriptures, and to spread Tracts which contain most
pernicious errors. Up to this time we had never had, to any considerable
extent, a depository for Bibles and Tracts. The circulation of Tracts
had been almost exclusively by gratuitous distribution; and thus it had
been also, for some years previously, with reference to the circulation
of the Holy Scriptures.--For a very long time, however, we could not
meet with a suitable house, till at last, after much prayer, and waiting
for more than a year, convenient premises were obtained by renting No.
34, Park Street, Bristol. On April 29, 1852, this Bible and Tract
Warehouse was opened with prayer.

3. During this year there was spent of the funds of the Institution, for
missionary objects, the sum of 2005l. 7s. 5d. By this sum fifty-one
labourers in the word and doctrine, in various parts of the world, were
to a greater or less degree assisted.

It is a subject of joy and thankfulness to me, to be able to inform the
believing reader, that the Lord was pleased to grant again much blessing
upon the labours of these brethren during this year. Many sinners were
converted through their instrumentality, some of whom had been in a most
awful state. This remark applies both to foreign and home labourers.

4. There was laid out for the circulation of Tracts, from May 26, 1851,
to May 26, 1852, the sum of 356l. 11s. 3 1/2 d. There were circulated
during the year 489,136 Tracts.

The total number of Tracts, which were circulated from the beginning up
to May 26, 18152, was 1,086,366.

The Lord is pleased to increase this part of the work more and more.

It is not merely, however, of the increase in the number of Tracts that
I have to speak. I heard during this year of one case after another, in
which the tracts, with which the Lord enabled me to furnish the many
brethren who circulate them, were us