Every man who walks with God, and finds Him a present Help in every time
of need; who puts His promises to the practical proof and verifies them
in actual experience; every believer who with the key of faith unlocks
God's mysteries, and with the key of prayer unlocks God's treasuries,
thus furnishes to the race a demonstration and an illustration of the
fact that "He is, and is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."
George Müller was such an argument and example incarnated in human
flesh. Here was a man of like passions as we are and tempted in all
points like as we are, but who believed God and was established by
believing; who prayed earnestly that he might live a life and do a work
which should be a convincing proof that God hears prayer and that it is
safe to trust Him at all times; and who has furnished just such a
witness as he desired. Like Enoch, he truly walked with God, and had
abundant testimony borne to him that he pleased God. And when, on the
tenth day of March, 1898, it was told us of George Müller that "he was
not," we knew that "God had taken him" it seemed more like a translation
than like death. To those who are familiar with his long life-story,
and, most of all, to those who intimately knew him and felt the power of
personal contact with him, he was one of God's ripest saints and himself
a living proof that a life of faith is possible; that God may be known,
communed with, found, and may become a conscious companion in the daily
life. George Müller proved for himself and for all others who will
receive his witness that, to those who are willing to take God at His
word and to yield self to His will, He is "the same yesterday and to-day
and forever" that the days of divine intervention and deliverance are
past only to those with whom the days of faith and obedience are past-in
a word, that believing prayer works still the wonders which our fathers
told of in the days of old. (From Chapter One)
