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 Oct. 20th, we left and went to Pesth (called also Buda-Pesth) the
capital of Hungary, 172 miles from Vienna, where, on Sunday the 22nd,
Mr. Müller preached at the German Reformed Church in the morning, and at
the Baptist Chapel in the evening. During our stay he held seven other
meetings also, including a service in English at the Presbyterian
Church, a meeting for Christian workers at the School House of the
Jewish Mission, and an address to 50 patients at the Hospital of the
Kaiserwerth Deaconesses, when from 30 to 40 gentlemen and ladies were
likewise present. At some of these services, there were many Catholics
amongst the hearers.
On Monday, Oct. 30th, early in the morning, we started for Brünn,
Moravia, 229 miles from Pesth (on our way to Prague), but remained there
two nights only, and on the 31st, walked up to the Spielberg (an ancient
fortress at Brünn, upwards of 1000 years old, situated on the top of a
hill, nearly 900 feet high,) intending only to look at the view obtained
from that elevation; but having (very courteously) been invited by the
Commander of the garrison to enter the Citadel, we mounted the
ramparts, from which the prospect was extensive. Amongst other places,
Austerlitz, 14 miles distant, could be seen, where, on Dec. 2nd, 1805,
Napoleon Buonaparte (whose head quarters were at Brünn) gained a victory
over the Russians and the Austrians. Our guides (an officer and a
soldier) afterwards conducted us down several flights of steps into the
dungeons of the Spielberg, and, with a lighted torch, led the way
through those infamous abodes of the cruelty of years gone by. Here,
Baron Trenck, General Mack, and Silvio Pellico were imprisoned long ago;
the dreadful tortures, formerly inflicted upon robbers, murderers, and
political offenders, as well as upon Protestants (there is reason to
believe), were minutely described to us; and the horrible scenes, which
then took place in these places of confinement, were specially detailed.
One of these dark vaults contained a stone figure, representing a man
stretched out at full length upon a rack, with his arms drawn up above
his head, to show the manner in which the limbs of victims used to be
gradually torn from their bodies, by means of machinery, which ruptured
their blood vessels also, and dislocated their bones. Then, on the walls
were iron rings, to which, with outstretched arms, condemned criminals
were fastened in such a way that it was impossible to move; and there,
without food or water, they were left to perish. In another of the
dungeons was a second figure, of a man in chains, standing upright, but
fettered so cruelly that, if it had been a living human being, the agony
occasioned by the bonds would have been excruciating. Some of the
prisoners, not killed by cold and hunger, were partially devoured by
rats, whilst others were slowly put to death by atrocities that rivalled
even the dread punishments of the Inquisition. A wall smeared with
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