FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   162   163   164   165   166   167   168   169   170   171   172  
173   174   175   176   177   178   179   180   181   182   183   184   185   186   187   188   189   190   191   192   193   194   195   196   197   >>   >|  
ch we knew not of. He shot himself in the neck and the breast, but is not dead. He has a strait-waistcoat on. I assisted in cutting his clothes off, and in other little offices, needed at such a time, and told him of Christ's love in dying for poor sinners. 'I know it,' he said. He shot himself the first time about three o'clock in the morning, and again about seven. What a scene his room presented. Pistols lying in gore. Bloody knives, lancets, and razors strewed about the floor." Etc. I add an extract from a second letter, written by the same Christian brother, because it shows still further, how very merciful the Lord was to us at that time, in protecting us. "Mr. ---- is still alive, and has been removed by his friends into Yorkshire. It appears, insanity is in his family, his father being at this time in an asylum. It is evident that he had the pistols in his pockets, but of this no one knew until after the occurrence took place. I do not know what time of night you went to bed; but I judge it was about ten. If so, it was at ten o'clock Mr.--came down from his bedroom, after having been there six hours. It was a mercy you did not meet him, as it is plain that he had loaded pistols on his person." Dec. 31, 1847. There have been received into Fellowship, during this year, 39: and altogether, since Mr. Craik and I began labouring in Bristol, 1157, besides the 68 whom we found in Fellowship. Of these 1225, 143 have fallen asleep, 70 are under church discipline, 78 have left us, and 259 have left Bristol; so that there are only 675 actually in communion. During this year the Lord has been pleased to give me. 1, Through the boxes. . . . L140 6 11 1/2 2, Through believers in Bristol, not anonymously . . . . . 57 3 6 3, Through believers, not residing in Bristol . . . . . 127 3 6 4, By a legacy of L100 Stock . . 73 4 9 5, Through presents in articles, worth to us at least . . . . 15 0 0 -------- L412 18 84 To this is again to be added the free education of my dear daughter, at a boarding school, worth to us at least 50l. In April, 1848, I was enabled, by the help of the Lord, to complete all the arrangements for the publication of the Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with me in the French language; and about September of the same year the book appeared under the following title: Expose de quelques-unes des dispensations de Dieu envers Georges Mueller. Paris, librairie Protestante, Rue Tronchet,
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   162   163   164   165   166   167   168   169   170   171   172  
173   174   175   176   177   178   179   180   181   182   183   184   185   186   187   188   189   190   191   192   193   194   195   196   197   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

Through

 

Bristol

 
Fellowship
 

pistols

 
believers
 

During

 

Mueller

 
pleased
 

communion

 

librairie


dispensations

 

Georges

 

envers

 
Protestante
 

complete

 

Tronchet

 
enabled
 

church

 

discipline

 

asleep


fallen
 

quelques

 
anonymously
 
daughter
 

Narrative

 
Dealings
 

articles

 

boarding

 

French

 

publication


arrangements

 

labouring

 

language

 
September
 

residing

 

Expose

 

legacy

 

school

 

presents

 

appeared


education

 

Bloody

 
knives
 

lancets

 

razors

 

Pistols

 

presented

 

strewed

 

brother

 
Christian