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GEORGE MULLER (1805-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 962 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:MULLER (1805-1898)  , See also:English preacher and philanthropist, was See also:born near See also:Halberstadt, See also:Germany, on the 27th of See also:September 1805, the son of an exciseman . He subsequently became a naturalized See also:British subject . Educated in Germany, he resolved in 1826 to devote himself to missionary See also:work, and in 1828 went to See also:London to prepare for an See also:appointment offered him by the Society for promoting See also:Christianity among the See also:Jews . In 183o however he gave up the See also:idea of missionary work, and became See also:minister of a small See also:congregation at See also:Teignmouth, See also:Devonshire . He contended that the temporal as well as the spiritual needs of See also:life could be supplied by See also:prayer, and on this principle abolished See also:pew rents and refused to take a fixed See also:salary . After two years at Teignmouth, See also:Muller removed to See also:Bristol, where he spent the See also:rest of his life . He devoted himself particularly to the care of See also:orphan See also:children . He began by taking a few under his See also:charge, but in course of See also:time their number increased to 2000, settled in five large houses erected for the II purpose at See also:Ashley Down, near Bristol . The See also:money required for the carrying on of this work was voluntarily contributed, mainly as a result of the wide circulation of Muller's narrative The See also:Lord's Dealings with See also:George Muller . When he was over seventy he started on a See also:preaching See also:mission, which lasted nearly seventeen years and included See also:Europe, See also:America, See also:India, See also:Australia and See also:China . He died at Bristol on the loth of See also:March 1898 . See A .

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Pierson, George Muller of Bristol (1899) .

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