Mr. Chairman, dear members, supporters and friends of this society. These annual occasions provide us with opportunities to give thanks and glory to God for all that he has done in the life of this society. When I stood here a year ago, I was telling you of plans for the recruitment of a new General Secretary, and yet none of us knew at that point how the Lord would work. But he has graciously provided a man, I believe, evidently prepared for this work in my esteemed brother, Mr. Jonathan Arnold. He has also provided Mr. Matthew Vogan to replace Jonathan as editorial director. And he has also united the new management team together very quickly in a mutual desire to support the general committee in taking forward this vital work in the same tradition based upon the same Biblical and Reformation principles that are laid down in our Constitution of 1831. We certainly do not take these great blessings for granted. I would like to personally thank you each for your prayers during the two and a half years when we had no General Secretary and each of us Directors had to assume additional responsibilities. With the pandemic and a major IT systems project going on at the same time, it was certainly an intense period. But we proved once again that gracious promise, thy God hath commanded thy strength. I would like to thank all the staff of the society, but particularly the staff in my own department for all their help and support over the past year. It is much appreciated. Two members of the Resources Department retire this autumn. Mr. John Edwards, who is behind much of the work behind these Annual General Meetings over the years, has recently retired from his full-time role as Executive PA, although he does hope to continue working for us two or three days a week for another 18 months or so. Mr. Ian Doxey, our Facilities Manager, is retiring fully from the work of the Society at the end of November, after the remarkable period of 42 and a half years working for this Society. We wish both of these dear brethren the Lord's richest blessing. 2021, as you will remember, started as a challenging year, with the effects of the pandemic still with us. But gradually as the year progressed, we were able to move into a more business-as-usual mode. Throughout the pandemic, the Lord mercifully spared our staff from serious illness, for which we are deeply thankful. In October 2021, we completed the implementation of the new Ex-Ledger Financial System, a project which had started during the early stages of the pandemic. We moved our Australian, Canadian and US branches onto the system last autumn. We give thanks to the Lord for this, but also to our hard-working staff in each of those branches, who went more than the extra mile to achieve what we achieve. We have now moved into a new phase of refining our use of the Ex-Ledger system and redeveloping our financial procedures in order to more fully reap the efficiency and reporting benefits that we intended when we bought the system. Turning briefly to the Society's financial results for 2021, more detail can be found, as usual, in the annual report quarterly record distributed to you which was circulated in August, and also in the four trustees' annual reports and financial statements, 2021, which are available on our website or by calling the office. In summary, the Society's worldwide operating surplus for 2021 was 1.437 million, which is an improvement of 1.49 million on 2020. Largely attributable to increased legacy income, up 1.162 million, and increased sales income, which remarkably was up £193,000. Expenditure was more or less stable, increasing by just £64,000 over that year. After adjusting for investments and foreign currency gains, the net increase in the society's assets in 2021 was 1.499 million. and the society's cash liquidity position remained healthy throughout 2021 and into 2022. And that is a great blessing, because if those of you that are in business will know, if you're constantly focusing on cash flow, it's a considerable distraction to the operations of the organization. And so we're thankful the Lord has given us enough cash flow for that not to be a continual and daily and weekly worry. I'm thankful to report that once again the Society has received an unqualified audit opinion from Moore Kingston Smith LLP following a rigorous audit and we're therefore happy to recommend Moore Kingston Smith LLP again to the membership today for reappointment for a further year. I do not intend to take up your time this morning with going through the detailed financial matters in the annual report, but I commend it to you for your reading, if you haven't already, and for approval later in the meeting. We had some very recent, very encouraging news when, unexpectedly, the Charity Commission sent us £550,000 suddenly from the closure of another trust. which is very helpful given the low level of legacy income that we have received so far this year. And we see this again and again, the Lord's wisdom in the timing and indeed the balancing of the financial provision as we have seen over so many years. Those of us responsible for the stewardship of the society's financial resources feel a great need of wisdom, particularly to maintain a right scriptural balance between faith and prudence, both of which the Lord Jesus Christ spoke about in his ministry. The General Committee will shortly be reviewing, therefore, and updating the financial plan for the period 2023 to 2027, if the Lord will, with a particular emphasis this year on how we fund staffing for the medium to long term. As I reflected on the Lord's gracious provision for the society in 2021, and so far in 2022, in personnel, in finance, in enduring strength and grace given, in gracious encouragements that we do not labour in vain in the Lord, and in so many other ways, these well-known words from Romans 8 were impressed upon my mind. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? He has promised, and we should not be surprised when he fulfils his promises. So in this spirit of humble confidence and gracious dependence upon the Lord we continue. and seek to continue to look to him for all our resources, not least those upcoming staffing needs that our General Secretary has already alluded to. Please pray that the Lord will be preparing and constraining those who he intends to work for this society in years to come. We covet your continual and earnest prayers for the Lord's work. that he might see fit to continue to use this society in some small way for his glory and for the extension of his kingdom rather than pray for us. Thank you.