The Proof of the Living God. 73 prepared both for the development of the character of him who had such singleness of aim and for the development of the work in which that aim found action. Mr. Miiller’s oldest friend, Robert C. Chapman, of Barnstaple, beautifully says that “when a man’s chief business is to serve and please the Lord, all his circumstances becomes his s e r v a n t s a maxim verified in Mr. Miiller’s life work. NO VISIBLE SUPPORT. Mr. James Wright, Mr. Miiller’s son-in-law and successor, said, in reviewing the sixty-five years of work, “I t is written (Job 26:7) ‘He hangeth the earth upon nothing 1—that is, no visible support. And so we exult in the fact that ‘The Scrip tural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad’ hangs, as it has ever hung, since its commencement, ‘upon nothing,’ that is, upon no visible support. It hangs upon no human patron, upon no endowment or funded property, but solely upon the good pleasure of the blessed God.” Blessed lesson to learn: that to depend upon the invisible God is not to hang “upon nothing,” though it be upon nothing visible. The power and permanence of the invisible forces that hold up the earth after sixty centuries of human history are sufficiently shown by the fact that this great globe still swings securely in space and is whirled through its vast orbit, and without variation of a second still moves with divine ex actness in its appointed path. Mr. Müller therefore trusted the same invisible God to sustain with His unseen power all the work which faith suspended upon His truth and love and unfailing word of promise, though to the natural eye all these may seem as nothing. SUMMARY OF WORK DONE. In the comprehensive summary contained in the fifty-ninth report, remarkable growth is apparent during the sixty-four years since the outset of the work in 1834.
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