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
In a "Memoir of his Life and Labours," published in the United States,
his biographer remarks that--"His out-of-door audiences consisted of
twenty, thirty, and forty thousand at a time, whose singing could be
heard two miles off, and Whitefield's own voice also could be heard at a
distance of a mile from where he stood. When exhorting Howell Harris
about his people in a letter, Whitefield wrote--"Show them in the map of
the Word, the kingdoms of the upper world, and the transcendent glories
of them; and assure them that all shall be theirs, if they believe on
Jesus Christ with their whole hearts. Press them to believe on Him
immediately. Intersperse prayers with your exhortations, and thereby
call down fire from heaven, even the fire of the Holy Ghost. Speak every
time, my dear brother, as though it were your last; weep out, if
possible, every argument; and, as it were, compel them to cry,--"Behold
how He loveth us!" The author of this Memoir further says--"Present duty
was the only thing that ever pressed hard upon him; past bitternesses he
quickly forgot; future troubles he left with God. He lived one day at a
time and lived it _thoroughly_; exhorting every one around, to follow
his Lord and Master."
On the afternoon of Nov. 4th, Mr. Müller preached again at Whitefield's
Church. During our stay at Newburyport, he held three other meetings,
and on the evening of the 7th at the Baptist Church he gave a farewell
address. On the 8th we went to Amherst, where there is a College
containing 350 students, to whom and to other hearers from the town, my
husband spoke for an hour on the evening of that day. During our stay,
at the house of President Seelye, Principal of the Institution, the
following interesting account of a former College student (a Japanese)
was related to us. Whilst in his native country, many years ago, this
young man, becoming dissatisfied with his gods of wood and stone,
happened one day to meet with a Primer for children, written by a
missionary in the Japanese tongue, when his eyes lighted upon these
words:--"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis
i, 1. The thought, that there was a Being who had _created_ the material
universe around, the beautiful earth with all its wonders, and the
starry host in the spacious firmament above, struck him forcibly.
"_That_ God (thought he) is the Being _I_ will worship;" and for some
time he ignorantly, but sincerely, worshipped the God of Genesis i. At
length, ardently desiring to learn something more about the true God, he
determined to leave the country secretly, and to go to China, with the
hope of obtaining further light. At Shanghai a New Testament in the
Japanese language was given him, when, on opening the book, he
immediately caught sight of this verse:--"God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not
perish but have everlasting life." John iii. 16. "Whosoever?" (he
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