I have on occasion made mention of George Muller (Mueller). I thought you might enjoy reading a couple of incidents. More than enjoying, I thought they would inspire you. They certainly inspire me.
So here are two incidents. I will add nothing at the end; instead I will add this at the beginning: Our God is still on the throne.
Dr. A. T. Pierson was the guest of George Mueller at his orphanage. He says: “One night when all the household had retired he [Mueller] asked Pierson to join him in prayer. He told him that there was absolutely nothing in the house for next morning’s breakfast.
My friend tried to remonstrate with him and to remind him that all the stores were closed. Mueller knew all that. He had prayed as he always prayed, and he never told anyone of his needs but God. They prayed – at least Mueller did, and Pierson tried to.
They went to bed and slept, and breakfast for two thousand children was there in abundance at the usual breakfast hour. Neither Mueller nor Pierson ever knew how the answer came. The story was told next morning to Simon Short of Bristol, under pledge of secrecy until the benefactor died.
The details of it are thrilling, but all that need be told here is that the Lord called him out of bed in the middle of the night to send breakfast to Mueller’s orphanage, and knowing nothing of the need, or of the two men at prayer, he sent provisions that would feed them a month.
Charles Inglis, the well-known evangelist, relates the following remarkable incident:
“When I first came to America 31 years ago, I crossed the Atlantic with the captain of a steamer who was one of the most devoted men I ever knew; and when we were off the banks of Newfoundland he said to me, “Mr. Inglis, the last time I crossed here, 5 weeks ago, one of the most extraordinary things happened that has completely revolutionalized the whole of my Christian life.
Up to that time I was one of your ordinary Christians. We had a man of God on board, George Mueller, of Bristol. I had been on that bridge for 22 hours and never left it. I was startled by someone tapping me on the shoulder. It was George Mueller.
“‘Captain,’ said he, ‘I have come to tell you that I must be in Quebec on Saturday afternoon.’ This was Wednesday.
“‘It is impossible,’ I said.
“‘Very well, if your ship can’t take me, God will find some other means of locomotion to take me. I have never broken an engagement in 57 years.’
“‘I would willingly help you, but how can I? I am helpless.’
“‘Let us go down to the chart room and pray,’ he said.
“I look at this man and thought to myself, ‘What lunatic asylum could the man have come from? I never heard of such a thing.’
“‘Mr. Mueller,’ I said, ‘do you know how dense this fog is?’
“‘No,’ he replied, ‘my eye is not on the density of the fog, but on the living God, Who controls every circumstance of my life.’
“He went down on his knees, and he prayed one of the most simple prayers. I thought to myself, ‘That would suit a children’s class, where the children were not more than 8 or 9 years of age.’ The burden of his prayer was something like this. “O Lord, if it is consistent with Thy will, please remove this fog in 5 minutes. You know the engagement You made for me in Quebec for Saturday. I believe it is Your will.’
“When he had finished, I was going to pray, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me not to pray.
“‘First,’ he said, ‘you do not believe God will do it; and, second, I believe He has done it. And there is no need whatever for you to pray about it.’
“I looked at him, and George Mueller said this, ‘Captain, I have known my Lord for 57 years and there has never been a single day that I have failed to gain an audience with the King. Get up, Captain, and open the door, and you will find the fog is gone.’ I got up, and the fog was gone. On Saturday afternoon George Mueller was in Quebec.”
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