"Street kids on new." "They´d always been around" "Nowaday society tries to help him" "But two hundred years ago, in England they were treated like vermin" "With no parents or relatives to look after them" "Orphans were forced to survive by begging or stealing" "They had nowhere to turn to." "They lived and died in the gutter" "¡Boy you!" "But in Bristol help is on his way" "From someone on national newspaper would later to proclaim" "How to rob to the cruel streets of thousands of victims what have a done?" "mi father will kill me" "George Müller lived the life of the playboy spending his time drinking, gambling or chasing the ladies but his fondness for women and rich living demanded money and he knew how to get it from before he was ten" "Müller was stealing money from his tax colecting father by teenage years have become and expert" "Cheating and stealing even from his best friends in the times in villages from across this region" "Müller lived in Timonth later admitted whith much sin" "And it was usually a yound lady involved" "Eventualy having spent all his money" "He came here to Wolf and Bottle" "Unable to pay an angry innkeeper he was arrested" "And this is were they brought him" "It´s still a prision" "A high security one with four hundred" "When they brought Müller trought this actual doors it was a lot smaller" "Order to prisoners were no less dangerous" "Now locked up whit thiefs and murderers..." "He had plenty time to reflect on the misery that he caused" "After nearly a month, his father reluctant to send the money to pay off his debs and he was free" "But the experience did little to change his ways" "Not even the ref of his strictly religious father, who gave him a severe beating, had the power to change him" "Müller´s life became here in the small village of Kroppenstaedt" "It was used to be call the kingdom of Prusia" "his birth is recorded in the curch´s register 27 september, 1805" "This is the house were George Müller was born obviously has been so modeled" "That any historical evidence is long gone" "But is this plaque that commemorates the 200 years since his birth" "So what happened to the schemming conniving playboy that he should be remembered like this" "and how did this unlikely german end up hundreds of miles away" "Here in Bristol, England and build this wich in his life time housed over one hundred and twenty thousands orphans" "That still used today as the city of Bristol College" "And also is fashionable private residences" "And what´s more" "How did this man who lived in relative poverty do all of this whithout any of the fundraising machinery and publicity techniques we have today he steadfastly refused to make any appeals for money and yet in his lifetime he recieved donations of one million pounds" "In todays money that stakaring one hundred million pounds" "How he did it?" "Is what this story is about" "Just as in Britain, german society in XIX century" "Held a churc in high regard it was a place to be seen a career in the church was a top job" "With prospects of pension and status" "Something than John F. Müller wanted desperately for his son George" "It required a rigorous and expensive training" "And nowhere was better than the university here in Halle" "Today it´s known as the Martin Luther University when Müller arrived here, he´d grown up a bit and he desperately wanted to turn over a new live and start a better kind of life mainly to pleace his father was footing the bill" "but university life was filled whit distractions and possibilities" "Not all of them honorable his money-making scams continued and the sun hadn´t quite set on his playboys days" "But all of that was about to change" "At the university there was a young man called Christoph Leopold Frederick" "He was a quiet and faithful young man and Müller took him instantly he was hoping that he´d be able to help him to change his way which in his heart he desperately wanted" "Bathel was also a christian" "His faith at last quite a bit" "And secretly he was hoping that some of Müller´s worldliness" "Would rob off from him" "Now Bathel´s faith revived" "And he started coming to meetings every saturday night" "At the home of Johan Wagner" "A christian Businessman who lived here" "On kleiner Steinman Strasser" "One night Müller asked if he could go with him" "Bathel at first refused" "Müller was still very much the palyboy" "But inside he felt empty and miserable" "Bethel reluctantly took him alone, he was sure he´d hate it" "One on earth, would making him to pray and singing the Bible reading" "And then, the reading of a sermon" "George Müller, welcome here, please have a sit" "Friends we have a guest tonight here at the Bible study, a friend of Bathel" "Müller is a student at the University in Halle" "And he´s training for the minister I believe" "Mercy that just we continue our Bible studies from last week" "And turn to 1 John 4" "I will read from vers seven on..." "If somebody else could continue from vers 13" ""Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God"" "Everyone who loves has been born by God and knows God" "However does not love, does not know God, because God is love" "This is how God show us to love anothers" "Müller loved this" "It was so completely different from harsh legalistic" "And heavy religion he´ve been brought up in" "This people obviously had something that he had never experienced" "Something which he now realize he´ve been looking for all his life" "For the first time he was really happy" "This is what i´ve been looking for" "All that pleasures as nothing compares to this" "It was a turning point in Müller´s life" "He now knew for the very first time" "The joy and relief of being forgiven" "And what it meant to really trust in Christ" "He was in the fresh over of brand new life" "And little did he knows where it would led" "Müller wanted to share his life changing experience with others" "And his heart naturally want to mission work" "But for his father, Jhon Frederieck it was a bitter dissappointment" "Going with the prospects of being care for by his clergyman son" "As a result he felt he could no longer let his father pays university fees or his living costs" "But he had two more years to go" "And no Money" "It was a predicament he would know all too well in the years to come" "And the solution was a foretaste of what he experienced again and again" "God provided, there was no Miracle, no lines from heaven" "Just God given an opportunity to teach german to some american students" "Who paid him very well" "Driven by his new seal" "Müller spent all his spare time studying the Bible" "And having meetings in this room" "His tutor, professor Tolok arrangemended to preach in many of the local churches" "And he soon gain something of reputation" "But he also had a dream: that one day he can become a missionary when the professor recommended him to the british based continental society" "For their work in Bucharest" "He thought that his dream was about to come a reality" "But war broke out between Tukey and Russia" "Just when he was about to leave" "Putting an end to his plans" "But it didn´t put an end to God´s plans for his young servant" "To be honest Müller wasn´t all that disappointed because for some time in his heart..." "He felt more and more drawn to work with jews" "So, when in english based missions society invited him to join them doing just that" "He jumped at the chance thinking this was from God" "But there was a problem:" "National Military Service" "Every male graduates had to serve at least a year in the german army" "Si estaban en buenas condiciones" "But because Müller had suffered from poor health since he was a youth" "Because he recently recovered from a serious illness" "The Army let him go" "It wasn´t the only time that his healthWould play an important part in the unfolding of God´s plan" "Now Müller was free to go to London" "In 1829, London was the most advanced city in the world" "When Müller arrived the georgian era was about to end with the death of King George default" "A new exciting period of scientific discovery and empire building" "Which soon began under the rain of someone still just a teenager" "The princess Victoria" "Müller made his new home in HackneyIn the heart of London this days" "His days were filled by learning hebrew and european alphabet" "And the evenings meeting with fellows german students" "And the jews he had come to serve" "It wasn´t long before he collapsed through sheer exhaustion" "His friends advised to take a break from London smoke and pollution" "The relative tranquility attendance in the west country" "Seemed the ideal place with the brazen sea air" "River estuary and Rolling hills" "Once again through illness" "God was directing the steps of the young Müller" "Because what happened here was to shape the rest of his life" "Müller found his soul mate" "He was a scotsman and pastor of the baptist chapel at nearby Sheldon" "Henry Craig was the same age as Müller, 24" "And he also been converted as a student" "After graduating from Saint Andrews University in Scotland" "He moved south, to Exeter Only 14 miles away" "And it was there that he meet someone whose fresh understanding of the Bible" "Whish to have a Hugh impact on the way of mission work was done around the world" "And it was to change Müller´s life" "So tell me about this dentist friend of yours, this Anthony Norris Groves" "Well, I´ve never meet anyone like him or his wife Mary" "They are the only believers that i have met who actually follows Jesus" "Sell what you have and give to the poors" "Indeed, just recently they gave away a huge inheritance to those involved in mission work" "And he has given up his very lucrative dental practice to go to Baghdad, in Persia" "And they've gone with any financial support whatsoever" "They believe God will meet all their needs by prayer" "Just as he promised in the scriptures" "I very much like to meet them and discuss this things" "I´am fascinated by the idea of being more adventures in trust in God" "Müller returned to London a different man" "A man of vision and passion" "Fired up by growth experience of living by faith" "But his new found convictions didn't go down very well" "With the mission boat that would brought him to England" "So by mutual consent they parted company" "Once again, Müller headed west" "Henry Craig did asked him to preach in his church, here in Sheldon" "Well, the local people loved him" "So much so, they asked him to consider becoming a minister" "Of evenings of chapel, here in Timoth" "He returned month and Müller agreed on one condition" "That he´d be free to preach wherever and whenever God call him" "Until this congregation agreed" "So Müller became not just locally but across most of devin" "And his influence as an effective preacher grew" "But was also another influence which drew müller to Exeter again and again" "This time, it was a young woman" "Mary Groves, the sister of Anthony Norris Groves" "Whose writings so stood up Müller" "He was so head over heels in love" "Mary was as devoted to Christ as her brother" "And also shared her convictions, some say even more so" "She was a talented young lady Musical, artists and gifted in languages" "Müller didn't waste any time in asking her to be his wife" "And within three months, they married and set on down in Sheldon" "While they worked together in the church across the water in Timoth" "But it wasn't just Grove´s sister that is set to Müller off his feet" "Many of growth biblical insights it also become to change the way they lived" "For instance they took literally the Christ commands to his disciples" "To sell all their possessions and give them to the poor" "And for the rest of the married life" "This is what George and Mary did" "They also decided that from now on" "They would make their needs known only to God" "It was a courageous steps, some would say foolhardy" "But as Müller was later to recall" "These has been to means of letting us see the tender love and care of our God over his children" "Even in the most minute things" "In a way we've never experienced before" "It has made the Lord known to us more fully... as i pray and hearing God" "Henry Craig did also decided to take God at his word" "He and Müller had numerous stories to tell of God's provision" "Which sometimes arrived the very last minute when there was nothing left" "So George, how has the God Lord treated you this days" "How is this living by faith working on you and Mary" "It´s been amazing, top God is looking after us" "For instance, just a few weeks ago, Mary and i were right down to eight shillings" "So, we prayed for some money to come in" "Later, at morning, we were visiting one of our congregators" "And she asked me straight out, do we need any money?" "Well, i was tempted" "But, i kept our agreement with the Lord" "And i told her that i´d only tell God about our needs" "So, she bent on" "And said how if i'll go she had asked the Lord what she can do for him" "And he has impressed upon her to give me some money" "Then, just last Saturday, the feeling came back to her most powerfully" "Well, i kept my mouth shut" "So as not to influence her giving it, wasn't easy" "But when we left, she gave me two pounds" "So, how about yourself?" "Like you George, finding God to be faithful" "But sometimes He can leave us waiting till the very last minute" "But i wouldn´t change this way of living for anything" "Just the experience God in such practical ways" "After two years, Müller become restless he had a growing conviction" "That he´d finished his time here in Timoth" "The growing sense that it was God´s time for him to move on" "Once again, Henry Craig was for his next step of faith" "Craig already started a new work and when he asked Müller to join him" "Müller knew that i was time to go" "If Timoth was the genesis and where Müller grow and develop his faith muscles" "Then Bristol was the arena of the effectively reflex them" "And so effectively that not any bristol would be amazed" "But the whole World would come to know of his reputation" "In 1832 Bristol was already being amazed by the daring scheme" "Of a Isambard kingdom Brunel to build a bridge across the Avon River" "When George Müller arrived in Bristol a lack of funding had halted its construction it wasn't completed for another 30 years" "The housindays in Bristol is one of the country´s major seaport where over" "The british late trade it been delta developed by the campaign of William Wilberforce" "And at the strokes one of Bristol´s mains sources of income was cut off" "The city itself as a port was losing out the more accessible port such as Liverpool" "However Brunel soon to be completed rail link with the capital" "And his shipbuilding" "Managed to keep Bristol in a premily of british cities" "Hello ladies, thank you for coming" "For Henry Craig Müller´s arrived is the burden" "Of an already busy ministry" "For the people of Bristol scottish and german accent was something of a novelty" "Many came to profess the chapel to hear him preach out of sheer curiosity" "And left having being presented with the claims of Jesus Christ" "Two years after arriving, Müller and Craig" "Started the scriptural knowledge institution" "With four aints" "To distribute the scriptures" "To support mission work around the world" "To run Sunday schools and day schools for children and adults" "And enable the children of poor people to attend" "The work continues to these days" "On the homefront the Müllers and adult Lidia share the living quarters with the Craigs" "But after the birth of the second child alive they moved here to their own home" "In Poles Street, in Kingstown" "But after only 18 months little Elijah fell ill with pneumonia" "Instead of praying for his recovery" "Müller felt strongly that he should ask the Lord to take him home and perry suffering" "Also did his wife Mary who would feel the Lord support" "Two hours later Elijah died" "Müller was to record in his diary" "Then the Lord took from me my beloved infant" "But, i feel at peace perfectly at peace" "I can only spill tears of joy and ain't weep" "My beloved infant is far happier with the Lord than with me" "The cold damp and unsanitary conditions of pre victorian britain children highly vulnerable to diseases such as pneumonia" "Tuberculosis and cholera" "With no antibiotics or penicillin" "They nearly always died" "For the poor life was especially harsh" "Not just because of the physical conditions, but also because of society's attitude" "In particular, this attitude to streets children" "When Müller arrived in Bristol he could not help" "Or been moved by the plight of these orphans children" "They were always coming to his front door" "There was nowhere else for them to go and no one to look after them" "So they lived on the streets Begging and stealing to stay alive" "All to orphans they attempt failed" "Regarded its fails, the government's response" "Was to put them in the workhouse" "They were hellish places" "Orphans run by hardlest money grabbing owners" "There was no escape" "Young children became prisoners forced to cohabit with mentally ill and violent adults" "Few people knew about the appalling atrocities they dealt" "But one man in particular was the hardline at this evil through his regular newspaper column" "Charles Dickens had rending stories of the young orphan led Oliver Twist" "Awake in the conscience of a different nation" "But the conscience of George Müller had already been awakened" "A seed planted years before when he was a student" "Germinated and began to grow" "For two months Müller had taken advantage" "Of the free lodging provided for poor divinity students" "Here at the orphans house" "When it was built 100 years before Müller was born" "This five story-complex was the largest building in Germany" "And was virtually a small town within the town of Halle" "It had its own hospital, medicine lab, print shops, school" "An accommodation for the elderly widows and orphans" "It was the vision of August Hermann Francke" "Professor of divinity at the university" "It housed over two thousand orphans" "With a hundred teachers who gave them a good education" "And train them very craft so that they'd be well prepared to adult life" "When Müller saw how he was wrong and the godly principles that Franker held to" "He was deeply affected" "Even more so, when he discovered that did it all been done" "In dependence upon God" "In Britain the idea of special homes for orphans was revolutionary" "It would be another 30 years before Thomas Barnardo open his homes" "With the church of England's homes and then the national children's home was following after" "But in 1835" "There were only a thousand orphans homes in the whole of England and Wales" "They were all in London in the prosperous southeast" "They all charged thiefs and only accepted orphans" "From professional midle-class families" "The orphans of working class parents" "Had to move with relatives that often had to feed their own children" "Or they were forced into the workhouse Or worst of all" "Left to fend for themselves on the streets" "Where in the freezing winter months, they didn't even had the shelter of the workhouse" "Deploit become a major social issue" "And one deeply troubuled Müller" "Especially as he had nothing in Bristol to help them" "He couldn't ignore the need all around him" "And that's when he remembered professor Frank orphanages" "Here in Germany" "And Müller´s vision became to take shape" "Wednesday" "Took tenth of a friend´s house, there I found a biography on professor Franker" "That have frequently for a long time fort about library in a similar way" "Though it might be on a much smaller scale" "Not to imitate Frank, but in reliance upon the Lord" "Today it is very much of my heart to no longer thinkAbout starting a orphan house" "But to actually do it" "I've been very much in prayer about it" "In just a few days, the Lord has answered my pray and give me 15 pounds" "I had asked for only 14" "This has been a great encouragement to me" "And had stood me up even more to pray about an orphan house" "Again, yesterday and today, i´ve been much in pray about the orphan house" "And i'm more convinced that it is of God" "That he and his mercy guide me" "But there was something else that been eating away at George Müller" "For many people God as the actual assistant was irrelevance" "Life was harsh" "Living conditions were appalling was terrible deprivation" "Sickness and death whenever for away" "So cynics ans skeptics had a field day" "Where was the loving God that the christians spok of?" "Did he care?" "And many concluded that evidently" "He did not" "And for those who did believed" "Having faith meant little more than going to church on Sunday" "Few people experienced God to work in their lives" "And so they lived in a perpetual state of anxiety and worry" "Christ´s promise to his followers of a perfect peace" "That passes all understanding was not their experience" "Many people had a morbid fear of ending up in the workhouse" "The state provision for those in need" "And if anything it was this that motivated George Müller" "Now, if I, a poor man" "Can set up and run a orphan house" "Without asking anyone money or supplies" "But do it simply by prayer and faith" "That would be something which with the Lord blessing could encourage and straight the faith of the children of God" "It would also be a powerful witness o the unconverted of the reality of God" "A few days later, Müller laid his vision of a children´s home" "Before many bristol christian" "And right from the beginning, he set up the biblical principles on which he would operate" "They were the same that Anthony Norris Groves written about a decade earlier" "And the same that Müller and his wife Mary have been practicing for 5 years" "And we can not, as God's people pass by on the other side" "Pretending not to see the all plight of our cities orphans" "My friends" "I cannot colate be a follower of the Lord Jesus" "And not do something to help those children who have no home" "And nothing of the bomb embrace of family" "That's for I have called this meeting today to share with you what I believe God has been caling me to do since I came to Bristol" "I intend, with his help and provision" "To open a children's home" "That his children of the streets can find" "Refuge, velvet and love" "It will be open only to those who have been briefed on both parents" "No one will return away on grounds of class or creed" "As velous receiving a plane education they will be trained for domestic service" "The boys will be told a trade" "Under no circumstances for anyone be asked to pay or make a donation" "So home will be for those who are truly destitute" "God has freely given to us in our need of salvation" "And we will freely give to those who are in need" "Of course, we will need matrence and teachers and all man of asistence" "And those who wich to apply need to be qualified for such work" "And also be true believers in the Lord Jesus" "So children's home will be established only if God provides" "The means and supply to start to run it" "So will be no going to man for funds for provisions" "We will not be making any appeals" "As the by pray requests or sermons or literature" "We will rely on God alone" "When I firmely believe is this is of Him" "He will provide" "All through december, where the Müller´s enterprises spread" "Many of God´s people will move to make gifts of money and donate centerlines" "Everything from knives and forks and plates to furniture and glasses begin to flowing" "Right from the start Müller got the record of every single item" "And every single item give of money recieve" "Soon people came to his door" "A friend to work in the new home as maistrance, tutors and assistants" "It wasn't long before suitable premises were found" "Here in Wilson Street, number 6" "They only wanted to small rent for the place" "But there was one thing missing" "Orphans" "Müller had forgotten to ask to God to send the orphans" "He soon put that right and in within a short period" "The very first Müller's orphan arrived" "A little girl of 11 years old called Charlotte Hale" "Her story, like so many others was tragic" "It happened during the infamous reform riots of 1831" "When a bill to introduce their voting had been unexpectedly rejected by the government" "Bristol was in total chaos, and Charlotte's mother" "Afraid the riders will break in, hid all family´s life savings" "But she became ill and died without telling her husband where she hiddin them" "According to this entry in Müller´s own writing" "The husband died as a result weather from suicidal o heart failure" "Müller is too discreet to recall" "But Charotte came to live here with her grandfather But he just couldn't cope" "Which is how she came to be on Müller doorstep" "Charlotte was the first of 30 girls to live here, at Wilson Street 8 months later, short distance away" "Müller opened a second home, this is a very young boys and girls and seven months after that" "The same year that princess Victoria became queen" "Müller opened a third house" "This one was for orphans boys" "So, in just over a year Müller had 3 homes up and running" "Carring for a total of 90 orphans, who all needed to be clothed and fed" "It isn't too difficult to imagine the challenge to look after 30 children" "In buildings which were quite cramped" "And Müller did had his critics" "But it was still better than life on the streets" "The first 2 years were exciting" "Everything that was needed arrived on the doorstep or in the post" "They even had the services of a doctor free of charge" "If anything, the supply was greater than the need" "Müller´s dependence on God alone to supply without making any appeals" "Was working" "But these honeymoon years became to end" "For the next seven years" "Müller was to experience what in his own words was several testing" "As more and more his faith in God was stretched" "It wasn´t uncommon for the table to be set children waiting for food" "And for the to be none" "Until the very last minute that being knocked the door and provisions were arrived, just in time" "I just like to bring this few, mister Müller" "When the last night I just couldn't get any sleep" "Seemed so the Lord himself was telling me to get up and make breakfast for orphans" "So, I got up 2 o'clock in this morning and here you are sir" "Someone certanly is looking after you" "What you're doing here is very noble very noble indeed" " Lord be praised" " Thank you so much" "God bless you" "In the late autumn of 1841" "When this have been going on for some months" "Müller did something he had never done before" "Maybe it was the sheer weight of responsibility to go to him or the continual uncertainty that supplies would arrive on time" "But Müller broke with his tradition" "And shared with the staff the reality of the situation" "For the first time, they saw Müller as someone who was just vulnerable and tempted to doubt as they would themselves" "I know our situation gives us cause for concern" "But we must not give way to doubt and anxiety" "These past years we had seen how faithful God has been" "And now I believe he wait to see how we will trust him" "And his trials of our faith" "But for the time being pleased enough by anything we cannot afford" "This just not mean the children should go without their food or clothing" "When you return to their stations" "Look for items that we don't need" "And arranged to have been sold" "Now, let´s pray" "Our Lord and heavenly Father" "Thank you for the goodness to us" "For the wonderful ways in which you supply all your needs" "Now father, we turn to you again" "And ask if you will help us to stand firm in our faith" "And help us to trust you will provide what we need" "To look after our children" "Amen" "Mister Müller it isn´t right for me to ask God to provide" "If I'm not willing to give what I can" "Here 16 chelings" "It's all I have, but I give it gladly" "My dear Emily" "During these days of testing" "Many of the staff themselves gave money or sold articles they didn't need" "Donating the proceeds" "There were those, who criticized Müller that this was a failure" "On which he ran the homes of principles" "But he maintained that unless there was a willingness to give from their own resources" "They couldn't expect God to provide out of his" "Müller was never a rich man." "In fact in his lifetime" "He gave away the equivalent of four hundred and sixteen thousand pounds" "That was given to their personal needs" "Müller´s faith never did once break" "And not once did the children go without a meal" "As Müller wrote in his diary at the time" "These dear little ones knows nothing about this trial" "Because their table was well supplied as when there was 800 pounds in the bank" "Until they have luck of nothing" "In fact, after praying for 22 days guidance" "Müller opened the fourth home in Wilson Street" "Just to keep up with a growing number of orphans" "Who now augmented to over 140" "And this became a problem" "Dear mister Müller" "It is with considerable reluctance that all you and the half of my fellows neighbors bring to your notice that we continue to be inconvenienced by your orphans houses" "The noise and destruction had increased and once again the drains were overflowed the third time in one week" "Was we understand the difficult to you to have in caring for so many children we would respectfully ask you to consider what action you could take to alleviate the situation" "So Müller prayed and came to the conclusion it was time to move" "It wasn't just because of the neighbors" "The work also needed to expand if it was to cope with the increasing number of orphans needed care" "So with this faith already been severely tested" "He became convinced God was calling him to take an even greatest step of faith" "But how did he become convinced" "How did he know that this what God wanted" "Well, for George Müller, prayer and study of God's word was the key to understand the God's will" "Once we knew that, it was just a question of trusting him to do it in his own way and in his own time" "Müller believed with all his heart" "That God answers the prayeres of his people" "Not as a reward of being good or sincere but because they believed in his Son" "Jesus Christ" "Every day, he spent hours praying and reading the Bible" "It was is number one priority" "Sometimes, he would pray and study like this for days" "Puttting in his heart housing workship and praise" "Often just lisening and he kept on" "Until he heard God speak to him in the deep of his heart" "It was five weeks" "Before he knew with certainly that God was calling him not to find provicenses" "But to build them" "An architect did heard of Müller´s plans" "Offered his services free of charge" "Nevertheless it´s gonna be expensive" "Ten thousand pounds, that's about half a million in today's money" "Within a week a tenth of that amount was given in a single gift" "The largest he´d ever received" "But, where are they gonna build it" "There was a lot property speculation" "New buildings were going upon all Bristol and land was at a premium" "Sounds familiar" "But there was a possibility of some open land to be further out" "So, Müller came to see it and immediately, he knew he was right" "It was here, on Ashley Down, seven acres of fresh air and space" "Not far from the city center" "The landowner who heard the Müller´s plans was open to sell his land for 200 pound an acre" "But, then after sleepless night he agreed to sell it to Müller" "For 120 pounds an acre" "Once again Müller saw God's hand in the provision" "Now today as then, anybody buy land and in this kind of project wich is kind a" "Not Müller" "He refused to allow any building work start until all the money to finish the project come in" "Now, in some ways this couldn't have happened in the worst times" "The country´s economy fall" "Rumors of train companies going bust" "Caused the start market and plunge and drove of inflation" "The price of basic items shot up" "Bread, rice and oatmeal at least doubled in price" "And potatoes become a luxury" "But for Müller this was one more opportunity to show God faithfulness" "So two and a half years after receiving the first gift" "All the founds was in place" "And building work again" "Two years later, in june 1849" "The new orphanage opened its doors for 300 children" "Over the next 21 years" "Four more homes were built on Ashley Down" "Providing shelter, food, welfare and love for over 2.000 orphans" "What was life like on Ashley Donw?" "Müller´s attitude to children was revolutionary at the time" "As well as giving them a good religious education" "And that more often by example" "He made sure they all have a good general education" "It was often better than available state school" "Müller even had his own school inspectors to maintain this high standards" "The children were also trained in basic crafts" "The girls lerned domestic science" "The boys lerned how to garden, keep house and even how to dam" "In fact, he was critized for teaching children above their social station" "Müller´s orphans were well set up for adult life by the time they left the homes" "And did well getting good jobs" "But there were always the rumors and the criticism" "One rumor reach the ears of Dickens" "He heard that children were starving" "So he decided to make a surprise visit to find out for himself" "When he arrived, Müller sent for an assistant" "Handed him a bunch of keys and requested that mister Dickens" "Be shown over any of the five orphan houses he chose to see" "Dickens was impressed" "So impressed that he wrote it up for the papers" "It was publicity money can't buy" "Life in the house continued with just the occasional crisis" "But Müller´s faith always rose to the challenge, sometimes with unusual results" "In november 1857 just as winter was settling in" "One of the boilers sprung a leak" "Now, this was serious, without it home number one" "Was going to left cold and miserable" "The children would be exposed to dampness into diseases" "There was only one solution, fix the leak" "But there was a problem, the boilers break in" "It was gonna be a major job to go into all that brickwork" "Find the leak, repair it and put it back together again" "It was going to take days Meanwhile, the weather was getting much worse thanks to a fierce north wind" "So, Müller prayed for two things" "First, that the direction of the wind to be changed" "And second, that the builders work hard and fast" "On quiu right on the day when switch the boiler off" "The wind changed direction" "Then the builders decided they wanted to work trought the night" "So they completed it in 30 hours" "In all that time a south wind blow" "Making the lighting a fire unnecessary" "Sadly, in 1870, Mary died" "Just after the last orphanage was opened" "Everyone was devastated" "The children and the staff missed her desperately" "But for Müller was especially hard" "The love for each other had stand deeper over the years" "Yet reading his diaries there is not one word of complaints against God" "Or any hints of bitterness or self-pity" "He accepted her death as God will" "And knew that one day he would see her again in paradise" "By now, Müller´s home well-established running smoothly" "With thousands of orphans being care for" "He now had a right hand man, James Wright" "With wise foresight, Müller was trainning him to be successed" "When his middle aged daughter, Lidia gonna engage to change" "Müller himself was encourage to be married, so in the last day, in november 1871" "Susannah Grace Sanger became his second wife" "She was a governess for some time" "And 16 years younger" "Susannah was a great encouragement to Müller" "She soon realized that her new husband" "With all those years of experience had a message to serve a bigger audience" "It was a message that the Bible could be trusted" "And christians everywhere could be encouraged to practice what it teaches" "It was a message that needed to be shared" "And not just with bristols believers, but with believers everywhere" "Müller also had another passion" "It was the christians would put aside their often petty denominational differences and enter into true fellowship" "It was a plea that needed to be heard and not just here, but also across the oceans far away" "And now they could do it" "With James Wright able to run the orphanage," "Sussanah set about organizing international speaking tools" "For her 70 years old husband" "On some of these globetrotting adventures they saw God work in amazing ways" "Captain, I have to be in Quebec by Saturday afternoon" "And to speak by the evening" " Do you think we will make it?" " That´s now impossible mister Müller" "There´s not sign out of this fog left itself" "In 52 years I have never broken a speaking engagement" "We must pray, maybe go to the cabin" "Yea, across, but you have any idea how to fix this fog" "I´m not looking at the fog, but on God who controls all ours circumstances" "Are you a praying man, captain?" "Yeah, but I don't believe in miracles" "We go stoked in few days" " Go ahead mister Müller - let us pray" "Oh Lord, our God we thank you that you comand the wind the waves and even this fog" "We rejoice that our times in our circumstances are in your hands" "Now Father, in the glorious name of our Saviour, I ask" "That you will make it possible to us to reach Quebec by Saturday afternoon" "That your name will be glorified" "Amen" "Oh God, I made will..." "Do not pray captain, you don't really believe in God will answer" "But I know he already has come sir, let´s see what God has done" "I have known my Lord for 52 years captain" "And there is not one single day when the King has not graceleaus granted me an audience Müller reach Québec on time" "And began speaking tour of Canada and the USA" "Müller made all have his daily audience with the king" "But on this trip he had to have an audience with president too" "Rutherford Hayes" "Müller and Susannah met with presidents to describe the work in Bristol" "Before being treated for the tour of white house" "By her first lady herself" "Everywhere he and Susannah were in North America" "They spoke at theaters, stadiums, halls and churches" "People were hungry to hear how they could have a faith to work" "And Müller encouraged to get back to their bibles" "And believe what it says" "It wasn't until Müller was 87 years that he and Susannah stopped traveling" "In 17 years, they traveled 200.000 miles" "They'd experience temperatures, a freezing cold, sweltering heat" "They didn´t all the exhausting train journeys" "Sometimes lasting up to Hjek" "And had terrifying journeys it see through raging typhoons" "Through it all, Müller's faith stood strong" "And with God´s help, he took his message to 43 countries around the world" "Two years after coming home, Susannah died" "She was 73" "It was a heart blow" "His daughter Lydia at the age of 58 had died several years earlier when he'd been in India" "She had bronquites" "So now, George Müller was alone again, but not lonely" "His Lord was his companion and gave him the strength to accept his lost" "He also gave him strength to carry on preaching" "And his sermons were if anything, even more but more touched by God" "By text this lamentations three, that 22 and 23" "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases his mercies never come to an end" "They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness" "While everything changes here on earth" "Jesus, our friend is the same" "The same yesterday, today and forever" "What he was millions of years ago he is now" "What he was when he walked in Galilee, Judea and Samaria he is now" "His heart full of love pitied, tenderness of compassion" "I say to you all you may be the oldest" "The greatest, the most hidden of sinners" "You have sin again and again, but if you now turn to Christ" "He really forgive you" "That is power in the blood of Christ to take away the greatest sins" "I know" "Knowledge and education cannot make us happy" "Not truly happy" "Christ and Christ alone bring true real happiness" "I know seven languages, but I'd still go to hell if it one not" "For the fact that I know Christ" "I cannot describe the joy and the peace which come from being" "A disciple of the Lord Jesus" "Im a very happy old man" "Yes, indeed, I'm a happy old man .... and I say Lord Jesus, i´m not alone" "For you are with me" "I have buried, my wives and my children, but you are still with me" "I do not feel lonely anymore or for sick" "For I have you on your smile and that's better than life itself" "On Thursday, 10 of march 1898" "Müller woke up early in the morning as he had all his life" "He had Sunday sermon to prepare it was never preached" "In one brief moment he had gone to be with his God" "The following Monday was a day the like of which Bristol had never seen" "Businesses and factories closed" "The city came to a halt" "Thousands of people lined the street to pay the last respects" "To a german inmigrants it would win the hearts" "And as his picture in Britain Daily Telegraph said" ""Had robbed the cruel streets of thousands of victims"" "The gaols of thousands of felons" "The workhouses of thousands of helpless waifs" "The Bristol Times said that he was raised up for the purpose" "Of showing that the age of miracles is not past" "And rebuking the sceptical tendencies of the time" "For the cynics ans skeptics" "Then as now, this five buildings" "And the many thousands of transformed lifes" "Speak volumes of a God he was there" "Perhaps the greatest proof of all his Müller himself" "The swindler, the cheat, the self-centred playboy who stole from his best friends" "Who in stock raising a hundred million pounds in todays moneys simply by prayer and faith" "In the one who changed his own life" "In the mid fifties Müller closed the five buildings in Ashley Town" "And opened smaller families home in Bristol area" "But are those who well remember that child years in Müller´s home" "But all that memories may be mixed one thing is certain" "Their lifes would have been very different having not being for the faith and vision of George Müller" "His remains lies here in a Bristol grave" "His soul has long since departed" "But his message remains" "God is real and can be trusted" "Now, if I, a poor man can set up and run orphan house" "Without asking anybody for money or supplies" "And do it simply by prayer and faith" "That would be something which with the Lord blessing" "Could encourage and straight faith of the children of God" "And could also be a powerful witness to the unconverted" "Of the reality of God"