George Muller

“I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. Thousands and tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When once I am persuaded that a thing is right and for the glory of God, I go on praying for it until the answer comes. ” – An Hour With George Müller, The Man of Faith to Whom God Gave Millions , by Charles R. Parsons Over a hundred years after he spoke those words, the life of this man of prayer continues to strengthen the faithful and testify to all men the reality of the things of God. Born on September 27, 1805, George Müller showed the world that God answers prayer. The well known plight of children, and especially orphans, in nineteenth century England was widely described as a national disgrace at the time George Müller lived. In 1848, Lord Ashley referred to more than thirty thousand “naked, filthy, roaming lawless and deserted children, in and around the metropolis.” Throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria, one-third of her subjects was under the age of fifteen. With a population that more than doubled in the 19th century, housing in the cities of England was scarce and expensive, and wages were kept down to a barely subsistence level. Kellow Chesney described the situation as follows: “Hideous slums, some of them acres wide, some no more than crannies of obscure misery, make up a substantial part of the metropolis… In big, once handsome houses, thirty or more people of all ages may inhabit a single room.” The situation was exacerbated by the draconian New Poor Law of 1834, which relegated the needy to prison-like institutions called workhouses, splitting up families and subjecting them to repugnant living conditions and hard labor. The Victorian era became no