Arthur T. Pierson
George Muller of Bristol
His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
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OK Publishing, 2020
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Table of Contents
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.
Introduction
VERY soon after the decease of my beloved father-in-law I began to receive letters pressing upon me the desirableness of issuing as soon as possible a memoir of him and his work.
The well-known autobiography, entitled "Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller," had been, and was still being, so greatly used by God in the edification of believers and the conversion of unbelievers that I hesitated to countenance any attempt to supersede or even supplement it. But as, with prayer, I reflected upon the subject, several considerations impressed me:
1st. The last volume of the Narrative ends with the year 1885, so that there is no record of the last thirteen years of Mr. Müller's life excepting what is contained in the yearly reports of "The Scriptural Knowledge Institution."
2d. The last three volumes of the Narrative, being mainly a condensation of the yearly reports during the period embraced in them, contain much unavoidable repetition.
3d. A book of, say, four hundred and fifty pages, containing the substance of the four volumes of the Narrative, and carrying on the history to the date of the decease of the founder of the institution, would meet the desire of a large