Bath.

Aug. 5. Being still much in need, and having asked the Lord for means, I
received yesterday evening 1l. 0s. 3d., being some money due to me, and
today from Teignmouth 1l. as a present.

Dec. 31, 1846. During this year there have been received into Fellowship
66.

The Lord has been pleased to give me during this year

1, Through the boxes. . . . L165 15 1 1/2

2, Through believers in Bristol, not anonymously . . . . 81 13 1 1/2

3, Through believers not residing in Bristol . . . . . 136 14 8

4, Through presents in articles, worth at least . . . . 15 0 0

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L399 2 11

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. This was worth about 50l.

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 labouring 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. 24th, 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 into the room, where we were all at tea, 9 and
firing amongst us; but the Lord was our refuge and fortress, and
preserved us from danger, whi