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The volumes of "The Lord's Dealings with George Muller," now compiled into one volume, and the Reports
issued annually, are a continuous record of answers to prayer in circumstances of varied trial. Did our limits
allow of extracts, these would speak louder than anything that can be said concerning them. One incident,
coming under the writer's notice, may serve as a sample. He had been spending the night at Mr. Muller's house,
and at the simple breakfast there was no appearance of lack. On parting he handed Mr. M. a small sum, having
no idea how matters might stand with him. When after two years a Report was issued, he found at that date an
entry to the effect that "a brother had been staying the night with them, and they had enough to put on the
table for breakfast not only for themselves but for their guest, but there was nothing left to purchase the next
meal. The brother, on leaving, put into his hand, and so their wants were supplied for the time."

Financial matters were but one kind of need in which, as it arose, God alone was looked to, and found to be a
very present help, whatever the trouble. As when in cold winter time the boiler by which the large building was
warmed throughout was discovered to be irreparably worn, and had to be replaced, prayer was answered in
giving warm weather so long as the operation lasted, and in the men, unasked, offering to work by relays
through the night to hasten its completion.

In his journals, Müller recorded miracle-after-miracle of God’s provision and answered prayer:

One morning, all the plates and cups and bowls on the table were empty. There was no food in the larder and
no money to buy food. The children were standing, waiting for their morning meal, when Müller said,
“Children, you know we must be in time for school.” Then lifting up his hands he prayed, “Dear Father, we
thank Thee for what Thou art going to give us to eat.”
There was a knock at the door. The baker stood there, and said, “Mr. Müller, I couldn’t sleep last night.
Somehow I felt you didn’t have bread for breakfast, and the Lord wanted me to send you some. So I got up at
2 a.m. and baked some fresh bread, and have brought it.”
Mr. Müller thanked the baker, and no sooner had he left, when there was a second knock at the door. It was
the milkman. He announced that his milk cart had broken down right in front of the orphanage, and he would
like to give the children his cans of fresh milk so he could empty his wagon and repair it.

Facts like these, of constant occurrence, spreading over so large a space of time, and the deliverances invariably
wrought, are such as to silence all the cavils of unbelief, and to prove that it was God hearing and answering
prayer. And this Mr. Müller constantly pressed as applying to every circumstance in which God's children are
placed-that He can be trusted to hear and answer prayer from an honest heart, not on the ground of our own
merits, but in the name of Jesus, if we will wait His time, and let Him do it in His own way.

The money that passed through his hands for the orphans in answer to prayer considerably exceeded a million
sterling. Besides this, he received similarly in donations to the extent of some £397,000 means for circulating
Bibles and tracts, supporting scriptural schools, and aiding missionaries.

Leaving his son-in-law, Mr. James Wright, in charge at Bristol, his later years, from 1874 to 1892, were spent
mainly in traveling over Britain, the Continent of Europe, North America and Canada, Australia, India, China, and
other countries, preaching the gospel and building up believers in faith and love, often addressing large numbers
of ministers and students wherever he found an open door (and it was freely accorded him in all parts, for he
loved all who love the Lord, by whatever name they are called), leaving widespread blessing wherever he went.
Early experience in preaching had led him to abandon all attempt at pulpit oratory, and to aim rather at extreme
simplicity, so that his speech was not with enticing words of man's wisdom; but it was in demonstration of the
Spirit, and in power.

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