_Without any one having been personally applied to for anything_ by me, the sum of L92,175, 4s. 21/2d. has been given to me for the orphans, _as the result of prayer to God_, since the commencement of the work, which sum includes the L15,055, 3s. 21/4d. which was the cost of the building, fitting up, and furnishing of the present new Orphan House, and the L31,817, 1s. 11d., which had been received up to May 26, 1857, for the building fund, and the L1,489, 7s. 9d., the balance of the current expenses. It may also be interesting to the reader to know that the total amount which has been given for the other objects, since the commencement of the work, amounts to L33,293, 9s. 101/4d.; and that which has come in by the sale of Bibles, since the commencement, amounts to L2,080, 9s. 101/2d.; by sale of tracts, L1,778, 2s. 5d.; and by the payments of the children in the day schools, from the commencement, L2,066, 13s. 41/2d.
The Lord is pleased to continue to allow us to see fruit in connection with the orphan work, with reference to those who are _now_ under our care, and we hear still again and again of cases in which those who were _formerly_ under our care, have been led to declare themselves openly for the Lord, besides those in whom we saw the work of grace manifestly begun before they left the Orphan House.