A Narrative of Some of the Lords Dealings with George Müller

A Narrative of Some of the
Lord's Dealings
by George
Müller

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Title: A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller
Written by Himself, Fourth Part
Author: George Müller
Release Date: January 2, 2007 [EBook #20245]
Language: English
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PREFACE
TO THE
FIRST EDITION OF THE FOURTH PART
Twelve years have elapsed since the period at which the third part of
the Narrative of the Lord's dealings with me closes. It has not been for
want of matter, that this fourth part has not appeared sooner; but the
increased and ever increasing variety of other occupations has kept me
hitherto from arranging the materials for the press. Of late, however, I
have judged, for the following reasons, that I ought particularly to give
myself to this service.
1, It has pleased the Lord so abundantly to bless the former parts of my
Narrative to the comfort, encouragement, strengthening, and instruction
of those who are young and weak in the faith, and to those
unacquainted with the simplicity of the truth, that I consider myself to
be the servant of such; and I feel that responsibility is laid upon me, to
do what further I can, in this way, to serve them. And this, I confess, I
do joyfully; for my spirit has oft times been not a little refreshed during
the eighteen years which have elapsed, since I published the first part of
my Narrative, by the many hundreds of letters I have received, giving
an account of the blessing, which the writers of them have derived from
the perusal of it; and I have thus been again and again encouraged to go
on with the work.
2, I think it important, that the reader of the first three parts of my
Narrative should have a right impression of the work in which I am
engaged. He may not be acquainted with the Reports of the Scriptural
Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad, which have been
published since 1844, and therefore he may know no more of the work
in which I am especially engaged, than the first three parts of my
Narrative give him. In that case he would not know how the work has
been growing since that period; he would not be aware, that it is now
three or four times as large as it was in 1844, and is still more and more

increasing. He would not know in that case, that the principles of Holy
Scripture on which the work of God in my hands was carried on, when
comparatively small, and which then were found to be sufficient, even
in these last days, are the same on which it is carried on now, though
the work is now so large. This point has especially weighed with me, in
desiring the publication of the continuation of the account of the Lord's
dealings with me in the form of the first three parts, in order that the
Living God may be glorified through this account. I judged, moreover,
that, whilst the first three parts may especially furnish, to the believer in
the Lord Jesus for his private life subjects for comforting and
encouraging reflections; this part, besides doing the same still further,
may especially be of help to the servant of Christ labouring for God on
a large scale, or to the man of God who seeks to carry on business on a
large scale, on Scriptural principles.
3, Though the Reports of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for
Home and Abroad have been issued generally every year or every two
years; yet, as they are not bound together, they may be lost in part, and
thus the chain be interrupted. Moreover, they contain, sometimes,
matters which may be of moment for the time being, but not so
important afterwards. The Narrative leaves out such points, and
introduces on the other hand things which were scarcely suitable for the
Reports. My desire, therefore, has been to give in this fourth part the
substance of the Reports, which have been published since July 1844,
and to bring thus together in one volume what is contained in these
nine different Reports.
4, The Reports give scarcely anything of the dealings of God with me
personally, irrespective of the work in which I am engaged; but I have