up to May 26, 1848. This sum includes
the L11,062, 4s. 111/2d., which up to May 26, 1848, had been given
towards the building fund. It may be interesting to the reader to know
that the total amount which was given as free contributions for the
other objects, from the commencement of the work up to May 26, 1848, was
L7,060, 14s. 13/4d.; and that which came in by the sale of Bibles and
tracts, and by the payment of the children in the day schools, amounted
to L2,373, 3s. 71/2d.

V. PERSONAL HISTORY.

Dec. 31, 1846. During this year there have been received into fellowship
66. The Lord has been pleased to give me during this year L399, 2s. 11d.
To this is again to be added, what I have enlarged on in a former
chapter, that during the whole of this year also my daughter was, free
of all expenses, at a boarding-school, worth about fifty pounds.

In November, 1847, I had a most remarkable deliverance, which, to the
praise of the Lord, is here recorded, as it is a further illustration of
how the Lord watches over his children.

I was laboring for a little while at Bowness and Keswick in the ministry
of the word, in October and November. When at Keswick, I stayed with my
dear wife in a large boarding-house, in which, however, we were then
alone, except a single gentleman. Just before we left Keswick, on the
morning of Nov. 24, I heard that the gentleman, lodging in the same
house, had shot himself during the night, but was not quite dead. We had
not heard the report of the pistol, it being a very stormy night and the
house large. Two days after, I received from a Christian brother at
Keswick the following information respecting the transaction.

KESWICK, Nov. 25, 1847.

DEAR MR. MUeLLER:

The tender and Almighty care of our loving Father was never more
over _you_, and indeed over all of us, than in your stay at Mrs.
----'s. Mr. ---- was quite deranged for two or three days before
you left. Without any control, he had been walking about his
room for the last two days and nights, with loaded pistols in
his hands. Furthermore, he had taken into his head that you were
going to kill him. How gracious of God that he spread his wings
over you, and over dear Mrs. Mueller, so that Satan could not
break through the fence, to hurt even a hair of your heads.
Speaking after the manner of men, there was nothing to have
hindered him coming