selves to
be in debt. There seems in this to be something as remarkable as if Mr.
Mueller had commanded a sycamine tree to be removed and planted in the
sea, and it had obeyed him.

But this is not all. Mr. Mueller saw that there was a great demand for
copies of the Holy Scriptures, both in Great Britain and on the
Continent, and he commenced the work of Bible distribution. This so
rapidly extended itself that he was soon obliged to open in Bristol a
large Bible House. He believed that great good might be done by the
circulation of religious tracts, and he has carried on this work
extensively. He was moved to make an attempt to aid and even to support
missionaries among the heathen, as well as other good men, of various
denominations, who, with very inadequate means of living, were preaching
the gospel to the poor and destitute at home. He began to aid them as
their necessities came to his knowledge, and now one hundred such men
are depending on him, wholly or in part, for support.

Here, then, we certainly behold a remarkable phenomenon. A single man,
wholly destitute of funds, is supporting and educating seven hundred
orphans, providing everything needful for their education, is in himself
an extensive Bible and Tract and Missionary Society, the work is daily
increasing in magnitude, and the means for carrying it on are abundantly
supplied, while he is connected with no particular denomination, is
aided by no voluntary association, and he has asked the assistance of
not a single individual. He has asked no one but God, and all his wants
have been regularly supplied. In these labors of love he has, up to the
present time, expended nearly a million of dollars. It is thus that he
has endeavored to show to an unbelieving world that God is a living God,
and that he means what he has said in every one of his promises.[10]

[Footnote 10: The following brief statistics will show the
magnitude of the work already accomplished:--

The number of pupils hitherto instructed in all the day,
evening, and Sunday schools, is 13,124. The whole number
of _orphans_ educated within the establishment is 1,153.
Of the 700 now in the Institution, 260 are hopefully
pious. Missionaries aided at the present time, 100. Since
1834 there have been circulated,--Bibles, 24,768;
Testaments, 15,100; Psalms, 719; other portions of
Scripture, 1,876; or, total, 42,463 Bibles or portions of
Scripture. Tracts and books (not pages