A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4Müller, George
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A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4
Müller, George
Orphanages -- Great Britain; Prayer
It is today four weeks since we left you. As I know that your love to us
would like to know how the Lord has been dealing with us since, and as I
have abundant reason to speak well of Him on account of His goodness and
mercy to us since our departure; I gladly relate to you how it has been
with us since we left Bristol It was on Saturday afternoon, July 19th,
that we started for London. On the next day, the Lord's day, I
ministered twice in London, as also on Monday evening. I was much helped
in doing so, especially on the evening of the Lord's day and on Monday
evening, and I could not but recognize the hand of the Lord even in
this, with reference to my leaving Bristol for a season. On Monday and
Tuesday we were much occupied in procuring our passports, and on
Wednesday at twelve o'clock we went on board the steamer for Ostend.
The Lord mercifully carried us over the sea, although we were both very
sea-sick, and about five o'clock the next morning we went on shore at
Ostend. Having in a very little time, without any difficulty, obtained
our luggage out of the Customhouse, we left by the first train for
Cologne, at half-past six, travelled all that day, a distance of about
240 miles, and reached Cologne between nine and ten o'clock in the
evening. We then travelled either in the Rhine steamers, on the
rail-road, or in an omnibus, the four following days also, yet so that
we arranged to have time to ourselves, and reached Stuttgart about eight
o'clock on Monday evening, July 28th. Of the journey I would mention
no more, than that on the last day we travelled with a most lovely and
gracious brother, an English clergyman from Sussex, with whom, after two
or three hours I was so one in heart, that on getting out of the
omnibus, in which we travelled together about 30 miles, in order to walk
up a long hill, we walked together arm-in-arm. It was most refreshing to
our spirits to find so lovely a brother in this dark land. We spent a
few hours together at Stuttgart, and then this dear brother left for the
neighbourhood of Munich, the capital of the kingdom of Bavaria, where
his family is for a season.--I had written from Bristol to one of the
brethren at Stuttgart, Brother M--, an Englishman, to look out for furnished
lodgings for us, and I
therefore called on him the next morning, July 29th, to see how far he
had succeeded. I now learned that he had made every inquiry for me, and
also advertised in the paper, and applied at an intelligence office, but
that he had heard only of three apartments, and even these were
unfurnished; for all the lodgings which were to be had were occupied by
the deputies of the people, a sort of Parliament in Wirtemberg, who have
once every three years their assemblies, and who had been for the last
six months assembled in Stuttgart. This was no small difficulty, as to
stay at an hotel would have been very expensive, especially just now, as
the assembly of the deputies has made a great difference in the hotels
also.
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