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The Fundamentals. During the year ending May 26, 1898, the number of day schools was seven and of pupils 354; the number of children in attendance from the beginning 81,501. The number of home Sunday Schools, twelve, and of children in them 1,341; but, from the beginning, 32,944. The number of Sunday Schools aided in England and Wales, twenty-five. The amount expended in connection with home schools, ¿736. 13s. lOd.; from the outset, ¿109,992. 19s. lOd. The Bibles and parts thereof circulated, 15,411; from the beginning 1,989,266. Money expended for this purpose the past year ¿439; from the first, ¿41,090. 13s. 3d. Missionary laborers aided, 115. Money expended ¿2,082. 9s. 6d.; from the outset, ¿261,859. 7s. 4d. Circulation of books and tracts, 3,101,338; money spent ¿1,100. Is. 3d.; and from the first, ¿47,188. 11s. lOd. The number of orphans on A'shley Down 1,620, and from the first 10,024. Money spent that year, ¿22,523. 13s. Id., and from the be ginning ¿988,829. To carry conviction into action sometimes requires a costly sacrifice; but, whatever Mr. Muller’s fidelity to conviction cost in one way, he had stupendous results of his life work to contemplate even while he lived. GIVING WITH PRAYING. Let any one look at these figures and facts, and remember that one poor man who had been solely dependent on the help of God and only in answer to prayer, could look back, over more than three score years and see how he had built five large orphan houses, and taken under his care over ten thousand orphans, expending for them within twelve thousand pounds of a round million! This same man had given aid to day schools and Sunday Schools, in Britain and other lands, where nearly one hundred and fifty thousand children have been
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