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 Tuesday, March 20th, at half past one p.m., we left for Warsaw, in
Russian Poland, and arrived there the following evening at 10 minutes
after 8, after a long, fatiguing journey of 700 miles. On the morning of
March 25th (Easter Sunday) my husband preached in German at a Baptist
Church; during the week he held four meetings at private houses, and on
the following Sunday (April 1st) preached again at the Baptist Church;
but as the Russian authorities would not allow him to use the German
Reformed Church, our stay at Warsaw was of brief duration only. This
city contains 401,000 inhabitants, 127,500 of whom are Jews. There are
217 Synagogues and 653 Talmudical schools at Warsaw, and throughout the
whole of Poland (where there are more Israelites than in any country in
the world) the Jews number upwards of a million.
Having received a kind invitation to the house of Mr. Janatz, a
converted Jew, who lives in the country, 14 miles from Warsaw; on Monday
morning (April 2nd), we went by rail to Pruszkow, from which place, a
carriage and four conveyed us over four miles of ploughed fields, and
across much marshy ground to his residence. After remaining there two
hours, a meeting was held in the afternoon, at an Orphanage, a mile and
a half distant, where my husband addressed a large company, including
orphans, country people, and the workmen on Mr. Janatz's estate.
On the morning of April 4th, at a quarter past 10, we left our friend's
house, returned by carriage to Pruszkow and there took the 11.45 train
for Lodz (a large manufacturing town in Poland, the second in size to
Warsaw and 100 miles from it), where, after changing trains at Koluszki,
we arrived at 4 o'clock. There, during the twelve days that we remained,
Mr. Müller preached twelve times at the German Baptist Church, upon each
occasion to a most crowded congregation, for evening after evening
throughout the week, as late as half past 8, about 1,200 hearers
assembled, who listened to him with the deepest interest. On the morning
of April 10th he received a note in German, of which the following is a
translation:--"I, and almost the whole population of this town, in the
name of the Lord Jesus, entreat that you will have the kindness to
remain with us till after next Sunday. In the name of many thousands I
thank you for your ministry."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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