8. The total of the current expenses for the Orphans from May 26, 1848, to May 26, 1849, was 1,559l. 6s. 9d., and the total of the current expenses for them from May 26, 1849, to May 26, 1850, was only 2,665l. 13s. 2 ¾ d., i.e. only about Eleven Hundred Pounds more than the previous year. To avoid misunderstanding, I would request the reader to keep in mind that, though there were above 300 persons connected with the New Orphan-House, on May 26, 1850, and only about 130 in the rented Orphan Houses in Wilson Street, yet above three weeks of the second year the children were still in Wilson Street, and five weeks afterwards we had only those children who came from Wilson Street into the New Orphan-House; and even when we began to receive fresh Orphans, they came in only four, five, six, seven, or eight a-week, so that only by little and little our expenses increased.--It is also needful, in order to have a correct view of the expenses connected with the Orphans, to take into account the presents in rice, bread, coals, calico, print, shoes, &c., worth about 200l., which were given during these two years.
Matters connected with my own personal affairs, from May 26, 1848, to May 26, 1850.
Dec. 31, 1848. During this year the Lord was pleased to give me
1. By anonymous offerings in money, put up in paper, directed to me, and put into the boxes for the poor saints or the rent, at the two chapels. . . . . £156 7 1
2. By presents in money, from believers in Bristol, not given anonymously . . . . 157 14 6
3. By presents in money, from believers not residing in Bristol . . . 145 0 0
4. By presents in provisions, clothes, etc., from believers in and out of Bristol, worth to us at least . . . . 15 16 0
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£474 17 7
To this is again to be added, for this year also, as before stated, the free education of my daughter at a boarding school, worth at least 50l.
Dec. 31, 1849. The Lord sent me during this year
1. By anonymous offerings in money, through the boxes in the two chapels . . . . . £149 14 9
2. By presents in money from believers in Bristol, not given anonymously . . 101 3 0
3. By presents in money, from believers not residing in Bristol . . . 158 19 7
4. By presents in articles, worth at least . 3 5 0
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£413 2 4
Full account of the reasons which led me to the enlargement of the Orphan work, so that One Thousand Orphans might be provided for.
Having written down at full length the exercises of my mind respecting this deeply important step, I give them here, in the form of a journal, as recorded at the time.