Yet Speaking

Heb. xi, 4

He Fifty-ninth Annual Report of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution, published after George Müller’s death, contained the following statistics:

The number of day-schools is 7, with’ 354 pupils; children in attendance from the beginning, 81,501.

Home Sunday-schools, 12. Children, 1,341; from the begining, 32,944. Amount expended, £736 13s. 10d.; from the beginning, £109,992 19s. 10d.

Sunday-schools aided in England and Wales, 25.

Bibles and parts thereof circulated, 15,411; from the beginning, 1,989,266. Money expended for this purpose, £439; from the beginning, £41,090 13s. 3d.

Missionary laborers aided, 115. Money expended, £2,082 gs. 6d.; from the outset, £261,859 7s. 4d.

Circulation of books and tracts, 3,101,338. - Money spent, £1,001 3s.; from the first, £47,188 11s. 10d.

The number of orphans on Ashley Down, 1,620; from the first, 10,024.

Money spent in Orphan Houses last year, £22,523 13s. 1d.; from the beginning, £988,829.

The London Christian, commenting on the Sixtieth Annual Report says:

It is nearly eighteen. months since the venerable and beloved founder of the Bristol Orphan Houses was called home, and still the Institution which he was permitted to rear holds on its way prosperously. George Miller strongly insisted that the Orphan Houses were not his, -but God’s; that the principles on which he acted were no special prerogative, but the common privilege of all Christians. His removal from his earthly labors has given opportunity for the demonstration of the truth of these statements, and the result proves how true were the sayings of this modern ‘man of God.”

The Annual Report has just appeared, giving the record for another year, and the hearts of devout readers will rejoice at the evidence it affords of loyalty to principle and Divine fidelity to promise.

The Report abounds in striking and impressive incidents. Here is one: “From Anglesey, £50 for schools, etc., with £1,000 for the orphans, Four days previous to the receipt of this large donation, I received a letter from the donor, an entire stranger to me, as follows:. ‘I am wishful to know what is the pecuniary position of your Orphanage this year, more especially since January Ist last. I had a somewhat unusual conviction brought -home to me about your needing help, one night when lying awake. My inquiry is in strict confidence. Give me, at the same time, the name in which a draft should be made out. Yours very faithfully, vats

On this Mr. Wright remarks: “To this letter I replied, expressing my full appreciation of the kind interest in the Institution which this writer’s letter evinced, but adding that the principle upon which my late father-in-law had, from the first, carried on the work, was never to divulge to any human being, its present financial position. That only once a year, in the Annual Report, a financial statement was published; but that this always referred to a

state of things eight or ten weeks previous to the date of publication; and that, as I had received the responsibility of carrying on the work as a sacred trust, I could. not depart from the principle which had been undeviatingly adhered to up to the present hour. Three days afterwards, by return of post, 1 received the following letter, inclosing a draft for the amount above stated:

“‘Dear Sir, — I am in receipt of your Report, and note it is your rule not to give information.as to your present needs. I now inclose draft in your favor for £1,050, to be devoted to the maintenance of the orphans and your other objects as God may direct. Please acknowledge receipt to me in inclosed envelope, and please note it is strictly private. He gave it me in a very direct manner, with what appeared to me a plain intimation that you required it. No thanks whatever are due to me. Trusting this instance of His wonderful kindness may still farther strengthen your faith in Him, whose goodness is so great that words can not characterize it, I am yours truly, Ha

Mr. Wright then states the financial Ca at the time. He had the prospect of liabilities in connection with current expenses for May, amounting to from £1,500 to £2,000; he had only £374 in hand to meet them. Under these circumstances came the letter and donation. An instance like this is enough to show how real is the position of dependence upon God maintained by the di- ‘rectors, and how equally real is the Divine response to the faith of His servants.

‘A perusal of the Report will show how eee cause there was for constant waiting upon God. Again and

“again the funds were reduced to a very low figure, and the week’s income was often totally inadequate to the week’s expenses; but again and again, through various channels, the supplies flowed in, and the needs were met.

The orphan account, with a total of over £23,000 expenses, closes with a balance in hand of £728 ts. 514d.

Money for the Orphanages of Bristol may be sent through the “Isabel Fund.” Make draft or postal order payable to Abbie C. Morrow, 471 W. 145th Street, New York City.

And we ask those whom God does not lead to give money, to kindly pray that this work may go on and on until Jesus comes.