Address to Young Converts & Counsel to Christians by George Muller

George Müller was a native German (a Prussian). He was born in
Kroppenstaedt on September 27, 1805 and lived almost the entire nineteenth
century. He died March 10, 1898 at the age of 92. He saw the great awakening
of 1859 which he said “led to the conversion of hundreds of thousands.” He
did follow up work for D. L. Moody, preached for Charles Spurgeon, and
inspired the missionary faith of Hudson Taylor. Müller, a Christian
evangelist and Director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England,
cared for at least 10,000 orphans in his lifetime and through his legacy of
inspiring others to do the same, the number of children increased to
100,000. He prayed in millions of dollars (in today's currency the estimate is
150 million) for the orphans and never asked anyone directly for money. He
also established 117 schools which offered Christian education to over
120,000 children, and never took a salary in the last 68 years of his ministry,
but trusted God to put in people's hearts to send him what he needed.
Neither he nor the orphans were ever hungry or lacking in any necessities.
He did all of this by seeking means from God through prayer.
When he was over seventy he started on a preaching mission, which lasted
nearly seventeen years. He traveled nearly two hundred thousand miles in
forty-two countries, preaching the Gospel to over three million people.
Tens of thousands attended George Page 4Muller’s funeral