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 the 24th, we left Berne for Thun, at 10.40 a.m., proceeded thence by
steamer to the other end of the lake, and afterwards went on by rail to
Interlaken, where we arrived at 2 o'clock. There, at half-past 3, Mr.
Müller preached at the English Church in German; but, as the weather was
unfavourable, the congregation was very small. On the evening of the
following day, however, when he held another meeting at the same Church,
the audience was about five times as large as it had been on the
previous afternoon. Interlaken is in the vicinity of the glaciers of
Grindelwald, the Faulhorn, and the Wengern Alp; and is within a few
miles of the waterfalls, Giessbach, on Lake Brientz, and Staubbach in
the Valley of the Lauterbrunnen. The Jungfrau also, and other mountains,
can be seen from the town. From Interlaken, on the 26th, we went to
Thun, the chief town of the Bernese Oberland, where, on that evening and
the next, he addressed crowded congregations at the German Methodist
Church. On the 28th, by particular invitation, we returned to Gurzelen,
where, on Sunday morning (29th), Mr. Müller preached at the village
Church to a congregation of country people, some of whom had walked many
miles to hear him. This place of worship was a quaint, old-fashioned
building. An hour-glass on a stand (intended, probably, to remind the
preacher of the flight of time, and to admonish him not to be too long
in delivering his discourse) projected conspicuously from the pulpit. In
the evening, my husband held a meeting at the Vereins Haus, and there
addressed a very crowded congregation.
On Sept. 30th, we went to Neuchâtel, in French Switzerland, where, on
Oct. the 1st and 2nd, he preached in German, at "Le Temple," and held a
"German-French" meeting at the same place on the 3rd; that is, he
occupied the pulpit, and spoke in German, whilst a French pastor, in the
desk below, translated his Sermon into French. The congregation was very
large, and Monsieur Nagel succeeded admirably with the translation. On
the 4th, Mr. Müller held a second meeting of the same kind at Le
Temple, when he was listened to with the deepest interest and attention;
and the following morning a French brother called to congratulate him on
the success of his ministry at Neuchâtel, "for"--said he--"Toute la
population a été saisie et émue." On Oct. 6th my husband preached at the
Salle des Conférences; on the 7th he spoke in English at the Oratoire,
and, on our return in the evening, the following letter from one of his
French hearers arrived by post.
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