The Fundamentals (1910), Vol.1

The Proof of the Living God. 83 most conspicuous testimony to a prayer-hearing God, fur­ nished by any one individual in the century, is dismissed with one sweep of the pen, affirming that “there was abso­ lutely nothing in his career which could not be accounted for as the result of purely natural causes.” THE DOUBTER ANSWERED. In answer I beg to submit twelve facts, all abundantly attested: 1. For sixty years and more he carried on a work for God, involving at times an average annual expenditure of $125,000, and never once, privately or publicly, made any direct appeal for money. 2. Of all his large staff of helpers no one is ever allowed to mention to an outside party any want of the work, how­ ever pressing the emergency. 3. Thousands of times correspondents inquired as to the existing wants, but in no case did they receive informa­ tion, even though at a crisis of need, the object being to prov* that it is safe to trust in God alone. 4. Reports of the work, annually published, have no doubt largely prompted gifts; but even these cannot account for the remarkable way in which the work has been sup­ ported. In order to show that dependence was not placed on these reports, they were not issued in one case, for over two years, yet there was no cessation of supplies. 5. The coincidences between the need and the supply can be accounted for on no law of chance or awakened public interest. In thousands of cases the exact sum or supply re­ quired has been received at the exact time needed, and when donors could have had no knowledge of the facts. 6. The facts spread over too long a time and too broad a field of details to be accounted a wide advertising system. Mr. Muller recorded thousands of cases of prayer for definite blessings, with equally definite answers.

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