The Preaching Tours and Missionary Labours of George Müller (of Bristol)Müller, Susannah Grace Sanger
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The Preaching Tours and Missionary Labours of George Müller (of Bristol)
Müller, Susannah Grace Sanger
Müller, George, 1805-1898
On Dec. 8th we left New Haven for New York, and remained there fourteen
weeks and three days; because, during our two former visits to America,
having been able to give but little time, to this, the largest city in
the United States, Mr. Müller considered it right to remain as long as
possible, that he might do what he could for the spiritual welfare of
the people. The population of New York is about one million four hundred
thousand. It contains upwards of three hundred thousand Germans, and as
at Brooklyn there are two hundred thousand more, he had abundant
opportunity of labouring amongst them. The English-speaking population
of this city, Brooklyn and the neighbourhood, is about one million and a
half. We remained therefore at New York from Dec. 8th, 1880, to March
19th, 1881.
During the whole of this period, my husband preached 69 times in the
city, 15 times at Brooklyn, once at Harlem, twice at Hoboken, New
Jersey, twice at Tremont, once at Washington Heights, and twice at Union
Hill, New Jersey--92 meetings altogether, 38 of which were in German.
That winter was the coldest that had been known in New York for thirty
years, and the many long drives my beloved husband took at night to
Brooklyn and other places, seven, eight, or nine miles from our hotel,
when the weather was most severe, were very trying, especially as it was
necessary to cross a ferry, where the ice was occasionally so thick,
that it was with difficulty a passage could be forced through it by the
steamer. Constrained by the love of Christ, however, he persevered in a
service, that would have been considered, by most persons of his age, an
arduous undertaking; but though he _felt_ the cold, was not allowed to
suffer from it in the least.
On March 19th we went to Newark, New Jersey, a city of about 120,000
inhabitants, amongst whom there are more than 30,000 Germans. Before our
arrival, a series of services for them had been arranged, so that for
three weeks Mr. Müller preached exclusively amongst the Germans, and not
until a later period, at the large American churches of the city. During
our visit to Newark, he preached three times at Elizabeth, twice at
Orange, twice at Bloomfield, gave long addresses at two meetings for
pastors, held three meetings for Christian workers, conducted one
service for Theological students, and preached 26 times at Newark.
On April 18th we went to Port Chester, where he preached four times; on
the afternoon of April 22nd we left for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 464
miles distant; and on the morning of April 23rd, arrived at the
Monongahela Hotel, Pittsburg, after travelling all night. There, my
husband held nine meetings in English, and nine in German (as Pittsburg
and Alleghany, an adjoining city, contain about 60,000 Germans) and
attended two meetings of German and American pastors whom he addressed.
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