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
After remaining at the Orphan Houses on Ashley Down for eight weeks and
three days, (a period which gave Mr. Müller time to attend to business
connected with the Scriptural Knowledge Institution, and to resume his
public ministry in Bristol,) on Sept. 5th, 1878, we went to Dover,
crossed over to Calais the next morning, and reached Paris by rail at 6
p.m. On Sunday, the 8th--morning and evening--my husband preached in
English at the Chapelle Evangélique, Rue Royale, and held another
meeting there on the evening of the 9th. On the following day we left
Paris for Dijon, and passed the night there; rose at 4 the next morning;
and, after continuing our journey to Neuchâtel, proceeded thence to
Berne, where we arrived at 7 o'clock. On the evening of Thursday, Sept.
12th, Mr. Müller preached in German at the Salle Evangélique, which was
crowded to overflowing, the lower part of the building, galleries, and
staircases being thronged. On the 13th, he held a meeting at the Eglise
Française; on the 14th addressed some poor people at a small Institution
at Muri, near Berne; on the 15th, 16th, and 17th, preached at the great
Eglise Française to very large congregations; gave an address on the
morning of the 18th, at a Seminary near the Fest Hütte to 65 young men
who were being trained for teachers; and at 2 p.m. the same day we left
by rail for Thun, 18 miles from Berne. From there we drove to Gurzelen,
a village on the mountains, three miles from Thun, in a lovely situation
near the Alps, where, for the benefit of the poor of that locality, my
husband held two meetings at a Vereins Haus, which was crowded with
people from the country. On Sept. 19th we returned to Berne, and the
following evening attended a social meeting of Christians at "Die Enge,"
where he gave an address, and afterwards answered some important
questions that were put to him. On the afternoon of Sept. 21st he spoke
to between 600 and 700 Christian workers--including 300 teachers of
different denominations--at the Salle Evangélique; held a meeting on the
afternoon of Sunday, the 22nd, at the Fest Hütte, and on the evening of
that day preached a farewell sermon, at the Eglise Française, to an
immense audience. On this occasion his subject was the Second Coming of
the Lord, on which he was enabled to speak with great power, and much to
the profit of his hearers, as we heard afterwards. At the close of this
meeting, before the benediction, Colonel von Büren rose, and, on behalf
of the Christians of Berne, thanked him publicly for his visit to the
city; and here, before proceeding any further, it seems desirable to
make the following observations:--
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