Advertisements of Meetings,
Sermons, &c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 1 1
Legal Expenses . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 77 6 8
Stationery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 10 0
Postage, Firing, and Sundries . . . . . . . 27 19 2
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Total Pounds 1251 16 6
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This left L 108 13s. 9 1/2d. for the baby's keep. No child could
have been more thoroughly discussed, preached and written about,
advertised, or advised by counsel; but his resources dwindled in
proportion to these advantages. Benevolent subscribers too
seldom examine the financial items of a report: had any who
contributed to this fund seen the balance sheet they might have
grudged that so little of their bounty went to make flesh, bone,
and comfort for the object of it. A cynic would tell them that
to look sharply after the disposal of their guerdon was half the
gift. Their indifference was akin to that satirized by the
poet--

"Prodigus et stultus dedit quae spernit et odit."

In an age of luxury we are grown so luxurious as to be content to
pay agents to do our good deeds for us; but they charge us three
hundred per cent. for the privilege.


X.--The Force--and a Specimen of its Weakness.