GEORGE MÜLLER OF BRISTOL
AND
HIS WITNESS TO A PRAYER-HEARING GOD
BY
ARTHUR T. PIERSON
Author of "The Crisis of Missions," "The New Acts of theApostles,"
"Many Infallible Proofs," etc.; editor of"The Missionary Review
of the World," etc.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
JAMES WRIGHT
Son-in-law and successor in the work of George Müller
Illustrated
NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO
Fleming H. Revell Company
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Copyright, 1899,
BY
THE BAKER AND TAYLOR CO.
| Transcriber's note: |
| George Müller's family name is Germanic in origin. Everywhere that hisname appears in the printed text, the letter "u" is marked withtwo dots above it (called an 'umlaut') to show that it is pronounceddifferently from the way the unmarked vowel is normally pronounced. Sohis name is usually pronounced in English as Myew-ler, not as Mool-leror Mull-ler. |
Introduction
VERY soon after the decease of my beloved father-in-law I began toreceive letters pressing upon me the desirableness of issuing as soon aspossible a memoir of him and his work.
The well-known autobiography, entitled "Narrative of the Lord's Dealingswith George Müller," had been, and was still being, so greatly used byGod in the edification of believers and the conversion of unbelieversthat I hesitated to countenance any attempt to supersede or evensupplement it. But as, with prayer, I reflected upon the subject,several considerations impressed me:
1st. The last volume of the Narrative ends with the year 1885, so thatthere is no record of the last thirteen years of Mr. Müller's lifeexcepting what is contained in the yearly reports of "The ScripturalKnowledge Institution."
2d. The last three volumes of the Narrative, being mainly a condensationof the yearly reports during the period embraced in them, contain muchunavoidable repetition.
3d. A book of, say, four hundred and fifty pages, containing thesubstance of the four volumes of the Narrative, and carrying on thehistory to the date of the decease of the founder of the institution,would meet the desire of a large class of readers.
4th. Several brief sketches of Mr. Müller's career had issued from thepress within a few days after the funeral; and one (written by Mr. F.Warne and published by W. F. Mack & Co., Bristol), a very accurate andtruly appreciative sketch, had had a large circulation; but I wasconvinced by the letters that reached me that a more comprehensivememoir was called for, and would be produced, so I was led especially topray for guidance that such a book might be entrusted to the authorfitted by God to undertake it.
While waiting for the answer to this definite petition, though greatlyurged by publishers to proceed, I steadily declined to take any stepuntil I had clearer light. Moreover, I was, personally, occupied duringMay and June in preparing the Annual Report of "The Scriptural KnowledgeInstitution," and could not give proper attention to the other matter.
Just then I learned from Dr. Art