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Arthur T. Pierson. George Müller of Bristol, and His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
George Müller of Bristol, and His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
Table of Contents
Fleming H. Revell Company
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Introduction
A Prefatory Word
WHERE IS THE LORD GOD OF ELIJAH?
George Müller of Bristol
CHAPTER I
FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS NEW BIRTH
CHAPTER II
THE NEW BIRTH AND THE NEW LIFE
CHAPTER III
MAKING READY THE CHOSEN VESSEL
CHAPTER IV. NEW STEPS AND STAGES OF PREPARATION
CHAPTER V. THE PULPIT AND THE PASTORATE
CHAPTER VI "THE NARRATIVE OF THE LORD'S DEALINGS"
CHAPTER VII. LED OF GOD INTO A NEW SPHERE
CHAPTER VIII. A TREE OF GOD'S OWN PLANTING
CHAPTER IX. THE GROWTH OF GOD'S OWN PLANT
CHAPTER X. THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER
CHAPTER XI. TRIALS OF FAITH, AND HELPERS TO FAITH
CHAPTER XII. NEW LESSONS IN GOD'S SCHOOL OF PRAYER
CHAPTER XIII. FOLLOWING THE PILLAR OF CLOUD AND FIRE
CHAPTER XIV. GOD'S BUILDING: THE NEW ORPHAN HOUSES
CHAPTER XV. THE MANIFOLD GRACE OF GOD
CHAPTER XVI. THE SHADOW OF A GREAT SORROW
CHAPTER XVII. THE PERIOD OF WORLD-WIDE WITNESS
CHAPTER XVIII. FAITH AND PATIENCE IN SERVING
CHAPTER XIX. AT EVENING-TIME—LIGHT
CHAPTER XX. THE SUMMARY OF THE LIFE-WORK
CHAPTER XXI. THE CHURCH LIFE AND GROWTH
CHAPTER XXII. A GLANCE AT THE GIFTS AND THE GIVERS
CHAPTER XXIII. GOD'S WITNESS TO THE WORK
CHAPTER XXIV. LAST LOOKS, BACKWARD AND FORWARD
APPENDIX A. SCRIPTURE TEXTS THAT MOULDED GEORGE MÜLLER
APPENDIX B. APPREHENSION OF TRUTH
APPENDIX C. SEPARATION FROM THE LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE JEWS
APPENDIX D. THE SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE INSTITUTION FOR HOME AND ABROAD
APPENDIX E. REASONS WHICH LED MR. MÜLLER TO ESTABLISH AN ORPHAN HOUSE
APPENDIX F. ARGUMENTS IN PRAYER FOR THE ORPHAN WORK
APPENDIX G. THE PURCHASE OF A SITE, ETC
APPENDIX H. GOD'S FAITHFULNESS IN PROVIDING
APPENDIX K. FURTHER RECOLLECTIONS OF MR. MÜLLER
APPENDIX L. CHURCH FELLOWSHIP, BAPTISM, ETC
APPENDIX M. CHURCH CONDUCT
APPENDIX N
THE WISE SAYINGS OF GEORGE MÜLLER
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Arthur T. Pierson
Published by Good Press, 2022
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He was severely chastised by his father and felt that he must make some effort to reinstate himself in his favour. He therefore studied hard and took pupils in arithmetic and German, French and Latin. This outward reform so pleased his father that he shortly forgot as well as forgave his evil-doing; but again it was only the outside of the cup and platter that was made clean: the secret heart was still desperately wicked and the whole life, as God saw it, was an abomination.
George Müller now began to forge what he afterward called "a whole chain of lies." When his father would no longer consent to his staying at home, he left, ostensibly for Halle, the university town, to be examined, but really for Nordhausen to seek entrance into the gymnasium. He avoided Halle because he dreaded its severe discipline, and foresaw that restraint would be doubly irksome when constantly meeting young fellows of his acquaintance who, as students in the university, would have much more freedom than himself. On returning home he tried to conceal this fraud from his father; but just before he was to leave again for Nordhausen the truth became known, which made needful new links in that chain of lies to account for his systematic disobedience and deception. His father, though angry, permitted him to go to Nordhausen, where he remained from October, 1822, till Easter, 1825.
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