Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-08-01
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George MueHer,go f Bristol, England, gave
an account Of the methods, by which he
proceeded apd now supports number of
orphms sSssya6nst 81 What bad led to the
i i in pastoral
work, when he feltEthere was nothing so
wanting assfaith inaC Christian people and
caresfoFathezafathaElesss~ehildren There
did not seem much :, chance to 90 any
thing. IS be Had I'd money or influence;
but having Weighed the matter we'll he
determined to trust in the living God,
and begin an orphan, asylum, leaving the
care Of it to God. He was not a hasty
person, and it took long consideration tor
him to reach that decision: One evening
he was reading through the word of god,
ana came me t0 p the 'e. eighty frst Psalm and
II am the Lord thy God. which brought
thee outof the land of Egypt; open thy
mouth wide ana will fiji it,
He felt On bis knees and prayed to God
to g1vey him a-euitabfe house for the
orphan asylum and thousand pounds, or
$5jeOo ii Amsiicah money. That SEEM
ed like an immense sum- and he trusted
in God to get It. The first day he re-
ceived two shiilings, from poor G erman
missionary and another little donation
from another" inissioLary,@@ but little by
little the money came in, and shortly af-
tee;he received $500 from 8 poor woman,
who earned 81 a.day from sewing. He
at first refused the money, but The woman
compelled hirc to keep it. In about
three or four months be was in position
to rent house. capable of receiving
thirty Orphans, aud appointed time for
receiving applications. He went to the
house and waited three hours, but there
was not an application. He went home
DISCOURAGED, and: cast! himself on the
floor, almost in despair He prayed
to God. The next morning the first ap-
,plicatlon was received; Tand in u month
forty two applications were received, and
in six months he opened another mouse
for very little boys aud girls, below 8
years. . 80: II: ,'.'''
In nine months he opened third
house for boys over 8 years, and during
six months the prosperity of these insti-
tl,ions was uhabared.f Then all the
money was gone PEOPLE would think
that he should then be discouraged; but
on the lcontrary2 he glolied in the fact,
for it would show the world what could
BE- done in tire nineteenth century in an
swer to prayer. Thousands of these orph-
ans had been brought up and educated
in the, fear of the Lord, and IN his trip
to this country he had, met many of mis-
former pupils well-tD-uo and Christians.
This was what had been: accomplished
simply in answer to prayer in this centu-
ry: When it came: TO being without
money he felt that the time had come to
prove the Lord. He called the help of
the asYlums togetherGand told them not
to buy a single article except for cash.
During the forty -four years that the asy-
lums had lived they had never contract
led ascdnt Of debt He reasoned that it
was the work of God, and that they
should not be conducted according to
worldly institutions. He knew that there
could be no loss ih: doing Gods work in
Gods way. According to these princi-
pies he hadoacted all these years, and he
had never had to retrace any steps 1t
soon came to this, that they woull have
a break fast and there would be nothing
for dinner. Then he would call the help
together for prayer-meeting, when the
dinner would always come.
2Often it was necessary TO have a
second prayer meeting to get supper,
and sometimes still All other prayer meet
ing to get something for Breakfast. The
plan was invariably successful. This
.happened-net once, MOI ten times, nor a
hundred times. nor thousand times,
but many thousand times, and never was
there single failure. Sometime the let
ter carrier would bring remittance from
friends at distance, sometimes friends
happened teical1 and look through the
institutions, and would contribute, but
always there came relief at the right time
A fewiyeafs later 8 donation OF $25, 900 was
received, and he opened another institu-
In the same street. Then another era
came. They were oxefcro wded; tb ere
were 1875 orphans and more wanting to
come in. They decided to build. About
$4,000 we're necessary, though they did
not have 81 in the treasury. He deter
mined to 90 ahead with the building land
therefore began to pray. He prayed one
day, two days, five days, and still no
money came in.a He prayed still trust
fuliy-ffteen days, thirty days, and not a
single penny came.
|. On tile thirty fourth day the first do
nation of $4,000 came in, and he wasn't
at all excited. [laughter.] he had great
| faith, which had been strengthened by
exercise, At first he could trust God for
IS, afterwards Tor $40, afterwards Tor
800, afterwards for 81 ,O0n, and now he
could trust God for sl,OOO,O0O. He re-
pea,ed that he wouldn't have been xsited
at receiving $50, 1000 instead of $4,000 at
that time. The money came in rapidly,
and In few months he had enough mon.
=ey to commence building, but he did not
put his Signature to the contract until
there was enough to pay for the whole
building, Yet q strange circumstance
was that while there was $4,000 or
$50, 600 in the bank to the credit of the
building fund, the orphans were often
suffering tor bre lkfast yet he never
touched cent of the fund. If he had
done so the first time his spiritual Their
nlometer would have gone down ten de-
grees, and ten degrees erery time after
wards.
Tho house was opened soon afterwards
and filled and thWBswero still applica-
tons and he did not know what to do.
Then he prayed, and finally started in to
build another asylum for 700 orphans II
four or five years two more houses were
completed, and there was room for 1000
orphans. and that too, though the first
house had .csst t$z5,OGO. Then there
Were more orphans' waiting and he six
years later had built two more houses,
costing 100000 These asylums were
near Together and were like a little town.
These five houses had 1,70O windows
Larger then thosesof Ear we'll Hall. There
were gen eraliy from to0.to 600 en- hand
t Ths children Z rs were only those who bad