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The Fundamentals. it is safe to trust Him at all times; and who furnished just such a witness as he desired. Like Enoch, he truly walked with God, and had abundant testimony borne to him that he pleased God. And, when on the tenth day of March, 1898, it was told us of George Muller, that “he was not,” we knew that “God had taken him” : it seemed more like a translation than like death. THE MAN HIMSELF. To those familiar with his long life story, or who inti mately knew him and felt the power of personal contact, he was one of God’s ripest saints, and himself a living proof that a life of faith is possible; that God may be known, communed with, found, and become a conscious companion in the daily life. He proved for himself and for all others who will re ceive his witness, that to those who are willing to take God at His word and to yield self to His will, He is “the same yester day and today and forever;” that the days of divine interven tion and deliverance are past only so far as the days of faith and obedience are past; that believing prayer works still the wonders of which our fathers told in the days of old. All we can do in the limited space now at our disposal, is to present a brief summary of George Muller’s work, the de tails of which are spread through the five volumes of his care fully written “Journal,” and the facts of which have never been denied or doubted, being embodied in five massive stone buildings on Ashley Down, and incarnated in thousands of living orphans who have been, or still are, the beneficiaries upon the bounty of the Lord, as administered by this great intercessor. HIS LIFE PURPOSE. One sentence from Mr. Muller’s pen marks the purpose which was the very pivot of his whole being: “I have joy fully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith.” This
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